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Aug 30, 2013 · When he was a boy, his parents refused to let him learn martial arts, saying that only gangsters and police practiced kung fu. Leung realizes today that when he was a child, he had a childish conception of kung fu. "At that age I still think kung fu is just a fighting technique," he says.
Aug 22, 2013 · Leung plays the title character – the iconic martial artist Ip Man – and he spoke in detail about the way, as an actor, he combined the spiritual aspects of kung fu with elaborate fight...
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In some ways, it’s not surprising that Leung selected this multifaceted character to be his first Hollywood performance. In a 2000 interview, TIME asked the veteran actor if he received movie offers following his Best Actor win for Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love at the Cannes Film Festival earlier that year. “I’ve had some f...
The fight choreography for Marvel’s first Asian-led superhero film is based on martial arts. Leung says one particular action sequence was reminiscent of his past projects. “My first scene is fighting in the bamboo forest,” he says, referencing the dance-like duel between Wenwu and Li in the pair’s first encounter. “It reminds me of my early movies...
For Leung, it’s fate that brought the actor to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, more broadly, Hollywood. Asked about his thoughts on building a career in Hollywood, he says, “I believe in destiny.” He explains: “You can’t force things to happen. If it happens in Hollywood, great. But then at the same time, leave it up to destiny to see what happe...
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Sep 2, 2021 · American audiences will soon learn why it’s hard not to fall in love with the Hong Kong superstar. Tony Leung is making his Hollywood debut in 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ...
Sep 2, 2021 · It’s the feature debut for Simu Liu as a martial arts master who has to confront his family’s past secrets. Also starring are Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s stateside friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Shang-Chi’s aunt, herself a martial-arts expert. But the movie’s secret weapon is Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who plays Shang-Chi’s father Wenwu.
Aug 19, 2022 · Between 2007 and 2017, Yeung would not appear in any films and instead focused on martial arts and attending martial arts conferences. In 2017, Yeung appeared in a movie known both as Diamond Cartel and The Whole World at Our Feet, which is streaming now on Netflix.
Sep 3, 2021 · While neither “Ashes” nor Zhang Yimou’s ravishing martial-arts epic “Hero” features Leung (Chiu-wai) at his deepest, they are tributes to his matinee-idol magnetism and his ability to slip...
