BUSAN, South Korea (AP) – Chinese actress Tang Wei is not obsessed about finding the right role for her future film project.
For the “Lust, Caution” star, it is the people she works with on a film set and the chemistry with them that counts.
Tang shot into an international fame with her role in Ang Lee’s 2007 spy thriller set in the World War II era, which won the Venice Film Festival’s best film award. She played a Chinese student recruited to seduce a Japanese-allied Chinese official as part of an assassination plot. The film is still Tang’s best known work outside Asia.
Asked about the roles she would like to play in the future, Tang said Saturday her job is not about the role but about the people and the conversations with them.
“For me in this job, in this work, it’s more about who you are working with. It’s nothing about what you’re working on,” she said. “It’s the people, and the conversations, and also the chemistry that’s more important for me.”