(4/2/2008) Chow Yun Fat two nights ago continued to promote CHILDREN OF HUANGSHI in Huangshi, Wuhan and attended the film's charity event with stars like Michael Kong Leung, Li Bingbing and Bibi Zhou Bichang. The event had several hundred uniform police and security guards as well as police dogs to protect Fat Gor. While everyone screamed for Fat Gor, the event arranged child actor asked him, "Uncle Fat!" Fat Gor first pretended to be embarrassed and then laughed, "You are just 8, I am 20 years older than you, I am really old." Then another child called him "Elder Uncle Chow". Fat Gor smartly pretended not to heard then asked himsef, "Who is Elder Uncle Chow?" The event originally arranged a private meal for director Roger Spottiswoode and Fat Gor, but Li Bingbing came uninvited. She finally was able to get a picture with Fat Gor and Fat Soh. Fat Soh meanwhile had arranged for a masseur so Fat Gor could properly rest after work. However that masseur immediately cried out of excitement as soon as he saw the superstar and Fat Gor was stunned on the spot.
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(4/1/2008) CHILDREN OF HUANGSHI earlier held a press conference at Huangshi, Hubei, one of the leads Chow Yun Fat attended with his wife Jasmine. However, Michelle Yeoh (Yeung Chi King), Jonathan Rhys-Myer and Radha Mitchell did not attend due to other work. Only Fat Gor and director Roger Spottiswoode appeared. However, Fat Gor's charisma was amazing as over hundred media outlets covered the event. To honor Fat Gor's charity contribution and his work in Huangshi, after the press conference he was invited to a stadium to accept a good citizenship award from the Huangshi city government. The always humorous Fat Gor showed his true color at the press conference. Fat Gor put his eight year old co-star on his lap during the interview and asked whether he wanted to be an actor, a successful actor, an actor who is more successful than him? The boy expressed that he would like to be more successful than Chow Yun Fat and the entire venue laughed. Fat Gor and Radha Mitchell's kiss scene was cut, which the media asked about. The director saw how awkward the situation was and immediately explained that Fat Gor's expression was too sexy in it. He did not want the audience to focus on that kiss scene and could only cut it.
NOTE: The reason for really cutting the kiss was probably because some Chinese were commenting that they didn't know if they wanted to see him kissing a westener. Maybe a little payback from seeing CYF in American movies where he didn't kiss anyone.
As shown on Hong Kong Film Top 10
