“I think it’s incredible and I think I had a breakthrough in my acting career. I did something that I had never done before and to me, at least, it was quite successful.”

— Tony Leung

"Lust, Caution – Tony Leung interview" (2007) https://tonyleung.info/tony/?p=237

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