Many Faces of a Heavenly King
In his latest movie role, Aaron Kwok took on the challenge of acting 20 years younger than his age and bore up to eight hours of make-up everyday to play the part of Sunny, the childish and naïve clown in director Benny Chan's summer blockbuster, City under Siege. The Heavenly King talks about his role, working with long-time collaborator Chan and with his co-stars in a press conference held here recently.

On the movie
"I've worked with Chan a lot of times, and we've collaborated as early as 12 years ago. So when he (Chan) approached me for this movie, I jumped at the chance. One can say when Chan calls, I will surely support him any way I can. I took on this role because it is something I've never done before and this is a brand-new direction for Hong Kong cinema."
"It's not like I expect any awards from this (laugh)! It is a summer movie meant to be fun and exciting and enjoyable."

Challenges of the movie
"I play so many different roles in the movie - clown, mutant, man - and so the amount of hours that I spent on make-up alone was really the most difficult part for me. Worse, I had an adverse reaction to the amount of make-up I had on me that I had to go to the hospital. The filming of some scenes was also, frankly, scary - there was one underwater scene and I had to watch out for sharks!"

On his co-stars
"Jing Chu (who plays a policewoman in the movie) is hardworking and even though it is her first time in the action/supernatural genre, she was courageous and ready to do anything. Communication was also a problem, since she doesn't speak Cantonese very well and her dialect was different from mine. There were a lot of confusion and funny moments, let me assure you! But we helped each other out and did our best together."
"Wu Jing is an experienced action star so there was so much he noticed and did that none of the others noticed. He has so much potential to be a big star in this genre as well.

About his character
"My character Sunny is young, naïve and childish. He is innocent. So playing Sunny, I had to go back and learn how to be young again! (laugh) Because I am not young anymore, and the audience knows my real age - I have to do my homework to research the body language and behaviour of somebody young.
"I also had to learn how to slip into the role of a clown - one who makes people laugh. So it was great that Benny allowed me so much freedom to create and interpret the character as freely as I wanted."