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On Saturday 3rd October 1999, the fan club Hong Kong Superstars held a film show at the MAC cinema in Birmingham, England. Three films were shown -- Jackie Chan My Stunts, Blade (directed by Tsui Hark) and Beast Cops. Before Beast Cops Anthony Wong made a special appearance. This was the second time he had appeared at an event in the UK. The first time was in spring 1998 when he visited the National Film Theatre in London to introduce his film Full Contact. He arrived at the MAC cinema at about 3 pm. About 100 fans had come to see him, from all over the UK and also from overseas -- Taiwan, Norway, Ireland and the USA. Anthony came on stage wearing a lion mask which was very funny. He took it off when he was introduced by Hong Kong Superstars president Chris Ducker. He looked very well, and rather slimmer than he had been in 1998. He was wearing a dark shirt and jeans, a black leather jacket and sunglasses. He was very friendly and very modest to all the fans. First of all he made a short speecha dn then he answered questions from the audience. he tols us he was pleased to come back to England and amazed to see so much support for Hong Kong films. His English is very good, although he was nervous about speaking it. He told a story about winning the Best Actor award in Hong Kong for Beast Cops. He found when he arrived at the theatre for the award ceremony that his seat number was 14, which is a very unlucky number to the Cantonese. Lau Ching-Wan was sitting next to him in seat 13, which is a lucky number. Anthony Wong thought he would have bad luck! Then he was offered a chance to move to another seat, because Jackie Chan wanted to sit nearer the stage. So Anthony Wong moved seat: his new seat number was 18. The award ceremony was the 18th Movie award ceremony in Hong Kong: so this seat was very lucky: he thought it was a very good omen for him -- and he won the award, so he was right! Chris Ducker asked him if he thought bit was because of his good acting that he won the award, and Anthony said no, it was just the lucky seat number! After telling the story, he answered lots of questions from the audience.
Q. What are his best and worst films from 1999?
Anthony said Ordinary Heroes was the best; but there were a lot which were the worst.
Q. Will he make an English language version of Bunman: the Untold Story?
Anthony said he'd make it when he could speak fluent English (But I think his English is very good).
Q. Is there any role he particularly wants to play?
Anthony first of all said there wasn't any special one, then he added that he'd like a good role with a lot of depth to it.
Q. Is it hard to get into character when films are made very fast?
Anthony said yes, it was if the script was bad.
Q. Who does he like best out of his three female co-stars in The Heroic Trio (Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh)?
Anthony said he liked all of them.
Q. Did his friends and family react differently to him after he made Bunman: the Untold Story?
Anthony said that they all knew him really well, they knew that this was his real personality (the audience laughed a lot at this answer).
Q. Will he make a new CD soon?
Anthony was really surprised that people in the UK knew his music, and really pleased that we like it. (his music is very good, I think -- a lot of British people like this kind of punk rock).
Q. Who was the best director he'd worked with?
Anthony said Johnny To, because he's very good, and because they get on well together.
Q. Is it true he wants to play King Lear in a film?
Anthony said he wanted to play King Lear, but on stage, not in a film.
Q. Would he like to make more films with Chow Yun-Fat?
Anthony laughed, and said hhe wouldn't get the chance, because now Chow Yun-fat is a star, and Anthony is just an actor (the audience at this point made various comments about Anthony being a star too). He went on to say that Chow Yun-Fat is a very nice guy, and that he had been like a big brother on their films together.
Q. What is his favourite out of all his films?
Anthony said Taxi Hunter.
Q. What are his favourite band?
Anthony said The Sex Pistols and The Beatles.
Q. Who does he think is the best martial arts star?
Anthony said Bruce Lee. (There was a lot of cheering at this.)After the questions, he was presented with a special award from his British fans. After that, the film Beast Cops was shown. Chris Ducker said later on that Anthony had been really surprised and very happy that so many people had come to see him.
