"Tony Leung injured while sparring for Grand Master | AboutHK.Com - more information about HK"
|  Xan Brooks
It's official: kung-fu pictures can be bad for your health. The latest casualty is the leading Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, who had his arm broken by a martial arts instructor while rehearsing his latest role. Production on the film – a kung-fu biopic by Wong Kar-Wai – may now be delayed.
The Grand Master stars Leung as Ip Man, a venerable teacher best known for training the teenaged Bruce Lee. The film is due to begin shooting in September.
Leung was in training on Monday when the accident occurred. The actor was kicked by his instructor, breaking a bone in his left forearm, a spokesman for the director's production company, Jet Tone Films, told the Associated Press.
Leung has collaborated with Wong Kar-Wai on six previous movies: Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. More recently, he has starred in Ang Lee's controversial Lust, Caution and John Woo's action epic Red Cliff. The Grand Master will be Wong's first feature since his ill-starred American drama My Blueberry Nights, which opened to a raspberry of bad reviews at the 2007 Cannes film festival. |
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