Reporter : Lee Ji-Hye
Photographer : Lee Jin-hyuk
Editor : Jessica Kim
Tang Wei [Lee Jin-hyuk/10Asia]
<div class="blockquote">Tang Wei is someone who knows how to make the people around her happy. She tried to make eye contact with each and every person in the room, even when interviewing with ten people at a time, and eased the mood by telling jokes first. She also said, "You must have a hard time interviewing people all day long," despite having to carry out a hectic schedule for the film festival herself as well and made everyone laugh by making funny poses. Hence even if it may be an attitude she has decided to put on as a star, there has not been an actress who has tried as hard as she has to make those around her feel comfortable. The 20 minutes we got to communicate with her was far from enough time. But the eye contact she made with each and every person this day contained 'guanxi' (Chinese term describing the relationship between people). Below are remarks made by Tang Wei on the fifth day of the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF).Tang Wei [Lee Jin-hyuk/10Asia]
“I was told it’s time for me to get married.” Tang Wei, who has somewhat gotten used to Korea after winning the award for best actress at the 47th Paeksang Arts Award with film “Late Autumn” which she worked on with a Korean staff and visiting BIFF for the second year in a row, said she felt awkward and surprised about Korea when talking about marriage. She said she felt the difference between Korean and Chinese culture when told “it’s probably time you get married” after she said the child actors she worked with were loveable. “I'm definitely going to appear in a Korean movie. I'm just waiting for that moment to come.”Because you get to know more about another culture by expanding your experience on it. It’s sort of like breaking through a barrier. And I've broken through so many barriers regarding Korean culture that even my stomach has gotten used to it. It's just like the process of how you make friends. So I think the relationship between me and Korean movies is just like how you start telling things about yourself to another person once you get to know more about that person as well. “I'm an actress.”In "Wu Xia," Tang Wei plays Ayu who is a thoughtful wife and kind mother yet a shabby-looking poor village woman. When asked whether she was not concerned playing such a role would conceal her goddess-like looks, as she is called in Korea, Tang Wei gave the firm response of "I'm an actress. You need to remember that." We already saw through "Lust, Caution" that she is someone who believes there is nothing that she cannot do as an actress. Hence she is only climbing higher up into her shrine by shedding herself of her goddess-like appearance.※ Any copying, republication or redistribution of 10Asia's content is expressly prohibited without prior consent of 10Asia. Copyright infringement is subject to criminal and civil penalties.10 아시아 Reporter : Lee Ji-Hye seven@10 아시아 Photographer : Lee Jin-hyuk eleven@10 아시아 Editor : Jessica Kim jesskim@<ⓒ즐거움의 공장 "10 아시아" (10.asiae.co.kr) 무단전재 배포금지>