Zhang Ziyi stars in Peter Chan's true crime thriller emShe's Got No Name/em.
The Big Picture Eight years ago, director Peter Chan began developing the story for She's Got No Name, a true crime thriller that recently celebrated its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
PETER HO-SUN CHAN: Oh my god. That's a tough one. It's like asking my favorite movie, which I don't have you do. I would say The Warlords because it's not a typical Peter Chan film. You always want to try to do something so that you don't get pigeonholed.ZIYI: I think at this age, I've been doing movies for my entire life since I was 18. But right now, I think it's different.CHAN: Well, that's not fair. I didn't know this one could be included.
When I was presented with this, I found it very intriguing and mesmerizing as a story and also as a backdrop. We were lucky enough to be able to shoot in real locations, and those locations were locations that looked exactly as it was 80 to 100 years ago. The places were about to be demolished, and people have vacated and moved out, and we were able to secure those locations and dress it up as 1940 in Shanghai, and I think it's a blessing that we got to do that.
CHAN: It's not by design. I don't go in with a set of really well-planned shots and tell people that, “Okay, we're gonna do this in one take. It's like a scene, and we're gonna do the whole scene as one take.” I don't do that. I don't plan my shots. I'm very much about instinct. I work with my actors and give them as much freedom as I can throughout my career, and in this film particularly, more so than any of my previous works.
CHAN: I don't try to figure on set. I know what I want. But also, there is a thin line between knowing what you're doing and having the rest of the team, especially the actors on board, loving what they're doing. You gotta make sure that they love what they're doing, and sometimes they love what they're doing that is not what you planned, and you gotta leave room for that.
And also, she has a tendency to overanalyze a character. We would spend all morning talking about her motivation. Sometimes it gets a bit crazy. But then, the minute she's on camera, she's possessed by the character. She's a different person, and all her analogy is gone, and she becomes the character. It's almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.With a lot of actors I've spoken with, some of them will start preparing for a role the second they have a script.
CHAN: We're not that organized. Our schedule changes a lot. We're not like a Hollywood production where everything is set, but I do have a system that I do. They kept asking me every day. I put it on my calendar on the iPhone of what I do every day, and today is day one, day two, what scene, whatever, and I put stars on them. One is bad, two is okay, three is good, four is exceptional, five is a miracle. CHAN: Actually, we had a lot of fives.
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