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Title: 13/05/03
Description: Filming of Double Heroes


Ah_M - May 14, 2003 11:14 AM (GMT)
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Part 1:
The night before, Leon, Francis Ng and Ekin Cheng were filming a series of explosive scenes for "Double Heroes" at a street in Kowloon Bay. During filming, when Leon, who was in a very good mood, was being interviewed, he revealed that they had filmed some scenes at a sewage pool in a sewage factory a few days before and saw that after the sewage had been filtered, the water was very clean and could even breed fish in it. However, actually Leon had asked the film company whether it was dangerous before that, because the sewage water was poisonous and was afraid that it was unhygienic and might get dengue fever. Was it very smelly? Leon said, "I didn't feel it was very smelly. Long ago when I filmed 'The Legend of Chun Mun Kong', I went to Sai Kung refugee camp and had to submerge my whole body into the river. There were faeces floating on the river and when I jumped into the river, I immediately hit a pile of faeces. It was really an horrible experience. Now, I can tolerate a bit of smell."

It had been rumoured that he would decide not to act in "Infernal Affairs 3" anytime, had he already signed the contract? Initially, Leon said that everything related to "Infernal Affairs 3" had already been said. Then when he was asked whether he would mind how much he was paid, he said, "My role in the movie is both good and bad, there's no differentiation between good and evil. Now I haven't signed the contract! I have to see the script first before I know whether to film or not. The script is not ready yet, even the script for the second episode is not ready. There are a lot of uncertainties. Everybody is a professional actor. If I do it, I would do the best!" As for whether he was renewing the contract with Sony Music, Leon said that they were still negotiating, but chances of renewal was very high. Had Paco ever found him? He said that Paco was a good friend and they often meet each other.

The night before, Leon arrived at the filming venue in his friend's Porsche. Actually he had borrowed this car from his friend for filming purposes. He said that he was a person who loved cars and if the car was disfigured, he would definitely feel the pain, but there was no problem if there were really damages, because they had already bought insurance. About his role as a hypnotist in the movie, had he experienced being hypnotised or hypnotising other people? He said, "Hypnotism is not very difficult. I'm now engaged in the movie, in the movie, what I say can convince people. (Tonight is Mother's Day, did you have dinner with your mother?) No. I actually wanted to call my mother but all of you arrived. Besides, I had to work, so there's no dinner. (Presents?) No, I'm a traditional Chinese and would only give presents during Chinese New Year."

On the other hand, Ekin Cheng said that he already had dinner with his mother to celebrate Mother's Day a few days before. He revealed that till the night before, "Double Heroes" had already finished 2/5 of the filming. Previously, they went to the sewage pool for filming, both Karena Lam and himself filmed for two hours, but Leon was very pitiful and had to film the whole night.

The night before, they were shooting cars chasing and the explosive scenes of cars overturning. The film company had applied to the police for film-making and the police had also sent policemen to the venue to help in the film-making. As the film company had only applied to shoot only one explosive scene, after that scene, the policemen left and the working crew continued working. Until 3.45am, a resident nearby heard an explosion and reported to the police. The policemen arrived and saw that it was only film-making. When they knew that they were shooting two explosive scenes, the policemen stayed until all the scenes were finished for safety purposes.

Part 2:
About Leon had not signed the contract, the boss of Media Asia, Mr Lam, stressed that Leon's manager, Joe Chan, had already signed the contract, and he would ask Leon again. As known, Mr Lam called Leon after that, but Leon denied saying that he had not signed the contract. As to why there was such a difference in the answer, the reporter contacted Joe Chan again. He had asked Leon's assistant about this and Leon had actually said that all would be settled by his manager Joe Chan. Joe Chan said, "I don't understand why others keep harping around the problem of signing the contract or not." In short, he had already communicated very well with Mr Lam and Leon would start work in September.

When asked whether Leon's price was really HK$800,000, Mr Lam said, "It's best if it was! But what I know was it was definitely more than HK$800,000. I felt that it was a reasonable price. Although there's still no script, but I'm confident that he would film the movie."

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