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" 'Temptress Moon' can be seen as a purely psychological drama, a story about male chauvinism and Chinese hierarchy, or a film about the coming of age of a woman," he said. Yet Chen wants audiences to see it as a story with application to contemporary China, which is perhaps why it remains banned in China.
Said Cheung: "After 'Farewell My Concubine,' Chen said to me, 'I want to make a movie especially for you.' There were some hectic times, but I still enjoyed working with him. He's obviously a very powerful man. If there would be a war, he's obviously going to be the general."
Hard work has clearly paid off for Cheung, who has already made some 70 films, among them a memorable dozen or so familiar to foreign film enthusiasts. Cheung has worked with a number of major Hong Kong directors, among them John Woo, Wong Kar-Wai (best known for "Chungking Express") and Stanley Kwan.
In Cheung's most recent film, "Happy Together," he and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai play lovers who have traveled to Argentina to seek new experiences. Wong Kar-Wai wrote and directed, winning the best director prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Cheung has high praise for other of his directors besides Chen: "John Woo is the most wonderful guy. He's concerned with very strong ties between men. Off the set he's a very nice person. In 'A Better Tomorrow,' I'm playing this lousy cop, a very stupid guy, who's just realized my big brother has killed our father. Woo told me to do whatever I wanted in the scene, so I punched a mirror and I cut my hand. He held my hand and started to cry. He has a heart.
"Wong is a very selfish director. He never really has a plan, he always goes over budget and over schedule, he never knows what he's going to do next. For an actor he's hard, but he's very talented." (During the arduous desert shoot of Wong's "Ashes of Time," Cheung suffered a scorpion bite.)
"If John makes masculine movies, Stanley makes feminine ones--women's pictures. As a man, I'm not really fond of working for him--unless someday he wants me to play a transvestite!"
Said Cheung: "After 'Farewell My Concubine,' Chen said to me, 'I want to make a movie especially for you.' There were some hectic times, but I still enjoyed working with him. He's obviously a very powerful man. If there would be a war, he's obviously going to be the general."
Hard work has clearly paid off for Cheung, who has already made some 70 films, among them a memorable dozen or so familiar to foreign film enthusiasts. Cheung has worked with a number of major Hong Kong directors, among them John Woo, Wong Kar-Wai (best known for "Chungking Express") and Stanley Kwan.
In Cheung's most recent film, "Happy Together," he and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai play lovers who have traveled to Argentina to seek new experiences. Wong Kar-Wai wrote and directed, winning the best director prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Cheung has high praise for other of his directors besides Chen: "John Woo is the most wonderful guy. He's concerned with very strong ties between men. Off the set he's a very nice person. In 'A Better Tomorrow,' I'm playing this lousy cop, a very stupid guy, who's just realized my big brother has killed our father. Woo told me to do whatever I wanted in the scene, so I punched a mirror and I cut my hand. He held my hand and started to cry. He has a heart.
"Wong is a very selfish director. He never really has a plan, he always goes over budget and over schedule, he never knows what he's going to do next. For an actor he's hard, but he's very talented." (During the arduous desert shoot of Wong's "Ashes of Time," Cheung suffered a scorpion bite.)
"If John makes masculine movies, Stanley makes feminine ones--women's pictures. As a man, I'm not really fond of working for him--unless someday he wants me to play a transvestite!"
Cheung's own life would make a movie.
"My father was a famous tailor--the tailor king of Hong Kong," he said. "He made suits for Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando, William Holden--all the big stars. I'm the youngest of 10 children, and I was brought up by my grandmother.
"It's kind of sad: Suddenly, my father was too busy for us, and my parents lived apart from us. I felt distant from them. He took a second wife, and for a while all three of them lived together. There was a lot of quarreling. It was a mess.
"I didn't want to get stuck in Hong Kong, so I asked my father for permission to go to school in England. I was there between 13 and 20. First, I went to boarding school, and then I went to Leeds University to study textile design. I was being the moral, obedient son. I love nice clothes, but I didn't want to be a designer. I had a relative who had a restaurant in South-End-on-Sea about three hours by car from London. I was still in boarding school when I started working there on weekends as a bartender. They had a band, and I became a part-time singer. It was lounge music. It was nothing serious, I was earning only 5 pounds a week."
"My father was a famous tailor--the tailor king of Hong Kong," he said. "He made suits for Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando, William Holden--all the big stars. I'm the youngest of 10 children, and I was brought up by my grandmother.
"It's kind of sad: Suddenly, my father was too busy for us, and my parents lived apart from us. I felt distant from them. He took a second wife, and for a while all three of them lived together. There was a lot of quarreling. It was a mess.
"I didn't want to get stuck in Hong Kong, so I asked my father for permission to go to school in England. I was there between 13 and 20. First, I went to boarding school, and then I went to Leeds University to study textile design. I was being the moral, obedient son. I love nice clothes, but I didn't want to be a designer. I had a relative who had a restaurant in South-End-on-Sea about three hours by car from London. I was still in boarding school when I started working there on weekends as a bartender. They had a band, and I became a part-time singer. It was lounge music. It was nothing serious, I was earning only 5 pounds a week."
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Then Cheung's father suffered a stroke, leaving him paralyzed on one side, so when Cheung had returned to Hong Kong for summer vacation, his father hadn't recovered sufficiently when it came time for Cheung to go back to school in England.
"He wanted all his sons gathered around him," Cheung said. "This was the end of 1976 and early 1977. I had no plans; there I was, feeling like I was hanging in the middle of nowhere. My father didn't want me to go back, so I became a salesman for Levi jeans--that's right, Levi jeans--to make some money of my own.
"Some of my friends put my name in the Asian Amateur Singing Contest sponsored by a TV company. I won, and then I signed a contract with them to become a TV artist, a singer and an actor for TV serials. It was a very good school--you don't get blamed so much for your work on TV as you do on the big screen. I did thousands of hours of TV before getting into movies."
As a singer and as an actor Cheung became a major heartthrob, but he put his singing career on the back burner to concentrate on filmmaking. But now he's returning to performing with a vengeance. Before appearing in Los Angeles, he had done 24 shows in Hong Kong, two in Tokyo, one in Osaka, Japan, "swept through Southeast Asia" and played Atlantic City, N.J.; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; and San Francisco. Europe would follow America, and then more shows in Asia. In August, he will play Beijing, Shanghai and Canton. "I enjoy every single concert," he said. Once you've seen him in action, you believe it.
"He wanted all his sons gathered around him," Cheung said. "This was the end of 1976 and early 1977. I had no plans; there I was, feeling like I was hanging in the middle of nowhere. My father didn't want me to go back, so I became a salesman for Levi jeans--that's right, Levi jeans--to make some money of my own.
"Some of my friends put my name in the Asian Amateur Singing Contest sponsored by a TV company. I won, and then I signed a contract with them to become a TV artist, a singer and an actor for TV serials. It was a very good school--you don't get blamed so much for your work on TV as you do on the big screen. I did thousands of hours of TV before getting into movies."
As a singer and as an actor Cheung became a major heartthrob, but he put his singing career on the back burner to concentrate on filmmaking. But now he's returning to performing with a vengeance. Before appearing in Los Angeles, he had done 24 shows in Hong Kong, two in Tokyo, one in Osaka, Japan, "swept through Southeast Asia" and played Atlantic City, N.J.; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; and San Francisco. Europe would follow America, and then more shows in Asia. In August, he will play Beijing, Shanghai and Canton. "I enjoy every single concert," he said. Once you've seen him in action, you believe it.
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