Maybe he compensates with his group of recurring cast and crew members -- his other family.
Gong Li is riveting in the film, even though the diva has only 10 minutes of screen time. During the lull in production caused by the Sars outbreak, Wong worked with her on his excellent, somewhat kinky section of the short-film triptych Eros (Antonioni and Soderbergh directed the other episodes).
As for Leung, he has the patience of Job, though with limits. "I heard Wong was going to shoot more scenes with Gong Li and Faye Wong, so I shaved my moustache immediately," he says. "You just can't go on shooting like that; you have to stop. The last two weeks of 2046: nightmare, nightmare."
Still, he plans to work on Wong's next project, playing Bruce Lee's (
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