Chen Kaige talked for two and a half hours, Leslie Cheung kept smoking and listening quietly

Chen Kaige wanted to invite Leslie Cheung to film "Farewell My Concubine". The two met to discuss the script. Chen Kaige talked for two and a half hours. Leslie Cheung had been smoking and listening quietly. ​Z1z Although Leslie Cheung's face was as calm as water, Chen Kaige still noticed that his hands were trembling slightly because of the fluctuations in his heart. After listening to
, Leslie Cheung smiled and said: "I am Cheng Dieyi." This is a declaration and a promise. ​Z1z In order to play Cheng Dieyi well, Leslie Cheung went to Beijing six months before the filming started and concentrated on studying drama. When he got off the plane, he went to worship at Mei Lanfang’s tomb, visited the Mei’s house, carefully studied "Forty Years of Life on the Stage of Mei Lanfang," and delved into the formal terminology of Peking Opera performance. I practice four hours in the Beijing Film Studio every morning, and then go back to the hotel to practice again. Even the time for everyone to eat together. The teacher who teaches Peking Opera found that he was still pressing on his legs with a high fever. People on the crew called him "play idiot". ​Z1z Later, Leslie Cheung really became Cheng Dieyi. Chen Kaige originally prepared a stand-in for a Peking opera actor, but it was useless until the end. In the film, there is a discount of "The Drunken Concubine", in which there is a "comforting sleeves" swirling dance and lying fish movement, Leslie Cheung finished in one go without any post-editing splicing. ​Z1z There is a scene where Cheng Dieyi is addicted to cigarettes, and Duan Xiaolou comes to see him. Leslie Cheung entered the scene as soon as he turned it on. He took a stick and slapped the picture frame on the wall frantically, causing glass ballast to splash around. When Chen Kaige called to stop, he was already crying and couldn't stop for a while. In this section, Leslie Cheung asked for several shots in order to strive for perfection. It was not until a piece of flesh was cut off from his finger that he smashed the glass, and he said with a smile that the shot was finally finished. ​Z1z This is Leslie Cheung. His earnest dedication has affected the entire crew, including director Chen Kaige. It can be said that without Leslie Cheung, there would be no Cheng Dieyi and no "Farewell My Concubine". ​Z1z Chen Kaige said that two years before Leslie Cheung's death, he once had a dream. He dreamed that his brother was wearing a costume and said to him in pure Mandarin: "Farewell from now on." Two years later, he did not expect it to be a sentence.谶