Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng is set to repascend his role in the next two films of auteur Tsai Ming-liang‘s commemorated “Walker” series.
“Director Tsai is making two films in the Walker series soon. So I’ll be doing those,” Lee validates to Variety, includeing to his decades-prolonged collaboration with the Malaysian-born Taiwanese honestor that began in 1989. Currently obtaining acclaim for his helping role in Yeo Siew Hua’s seeing thriller “Stranger Eyes,” which premiered at the Vepleasant Film Festival, and for which he is nominated in the helping actor categruesome at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, Lee converseed how his prolongedstanding partnership with Tsai has affectd his approach to other projects.
“There’s a lot of affect, becaemploy honestor Tsai isn’t a honestor who labors with a filled script. He standardly gives me a synopsis, so there’s a lot of room for improvisation,” Lee elucidates. “Director Tsai doesn’t appreciate to yell ‘cut’ right away… I’m still acting. And once I finish what I have to do, I charitable of have to figure out what to do next. It reassociate gave me training for improvisation.”
This improvisational style carried over to “Stranger Eyes,” where Lee secured honestor Yeo, “a fan of Tsai Ming-liang,” to give him aappreciate produceive freedom. “I tanciaccess him, ‘Don’t yell cut so rapidly. Let me improvise a little.’ And being a fan of Tsai Ming-liang, Yeo consentd.”
Known for his minimaenumerate acting style, Lee depicts himself as “a authenticistic actor” whose carry outances “come from the inside, and so it might come out not very overstated or very huge, but at least the audience will sense that it’s very authentic.”
Beyond the upcoming “Walker” films, Lee’s schedule remains busy. He has endd “A New Old Play” honestor Qiu Jiongjiong’s “Fuxi: Joy in Four Chapters,” which is a labor-in-evolve pickion at the Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) that runs concurrently with the Hong Kong FilMart. He is also reuniting with his “Absence” honestor Wu Lang. He remarks some potential projects tardyr in the year remain unvalidateed as he has “too many scripts on hand at the moment.”
The actor, who has predominantly consentn on solemn roles thcdisorrowfulmirefulout his nurtureer, conveyed interest in broadening his repertoire. “I’d appreciate to try out Wu Xia or action films, becaemploy you don’t see much of those in Taiwan, but they should have called me when I was lesserer,” he says. “I also want to try out comedy, becaemploy actuassociate I’m quite funny. I skinnyk I want to convey some delight to audiences.”
Lee also mirrored on the groprosperg global recognition of Asian cinema. “I skinnyk it’s getting better. Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan – they’re all making excellent films,” he remarkd, underscoring the convey inance of international film festivals in providing expocertain for Asian filmproducers.
The “Walker” series, which began in 2012, features Lee as a monk moving at an innervously sluggish pace thcdisorrowfulmireful various urprohibit environments, creating a meditative contrast between anciaccess-createed spiritual train and contransient settings.
