From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
