TT: Do you consider yourself an erotic person like your onscreen persona?
LKS : Erotic? I thought what I played in the films was a melancholy lad (laughing). Yeah, I guess I'm erotic. It's good to be erotic and I can use some of the eroticism to cure my blues (laughing).
A leading actor in Tsai's films ever since Tsai's feature debut, Rebels of the Neon God, Lee has also acted in Lin Cheng-sheng's (林正盛) A Drifting Life (春花夢露) and Sweet Degeneration (放浪) as well as Ann Hui's (許鞍華) Ordinary Heroes (千言萬語). His performances in Vive L'Amour (愛情萬歲), What Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) and The Wayward Cloud (天邊一朵雲) were awarded in international film festivals. As a director, Lee has drawn an equal amount of attention from the international film circle: The Missing won top honors at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Pusan International Film Festival; Help Me Eros was recognized in the World Film Festival of Bangkok and the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain.
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