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Nicholas Tse plays a rickshaw man with scar, mixes in with the extras
by kelvin@multistars - 16th October 2009Source: Tungstar
Nicholas Tse, who has always played the cool male leads in movies, this time is playing a rickshaw man role in "Bodyguards and Assassins". What convinced the director was that he was able to completely break away from the old ways of his acting, in "Bodyguards and Assassins" he completely submerges into the role, to become a illiterate person who only has two purposes in life, serving his master's son (played by Bojie Wang) and protecting his master (played by Xueqi Wang), in the movie there weren't any special fighting scenes arranged for him, but Nicholas Tse managed to play the role of a Ah Sei perfectly, the crew were moved by his performance.
Due to the fact Nicholas Tse is a orphan he is adopted by Xueqi Wang, he follows the young master at the Lee house, the young master likes reading Sun Zhong Shan's "Kidnapped in London", so revolution became a very important thing to him. But to Nicholas Tse, the hardest thing was his special makeup took 4-5 hours, because the director especially put some scars on Nicholas Tse's face, and also deliberately made one of his eyes smaller than the other one. Sometimes Nicholas Tse films scenes for 3 days straight, he would go rest without taking off the makeup, because he was worried the crew would have to wait for him to put on the makeup before they could start filming, so he would rather go to sleep with the scar, and when he woke up he could go on immediately!
In the highlights, Nicholas Tse especially mentioned the other extras who played richshaw men with him, he said: "I don't care if it's while filming or not, I have to mix in with them for the performance to be convincing. It's really rare to be able to find a group of such great actors, even though they say: brother Fung, we are just tagging on your coattails, we are only here because you are! But I say no, I am the one who should be thanking you, this movie is only good because you guys are in it!" From this you can tell that "Bodyguards and Assassins" has made a group of actors very good friends.
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