Koo plays four roles in ‘Death Notify’

Compiled by R.ARAVINTHAN , YIMIE YONG and CLARISSA CHUNG

HONG Kong movie star Louis Koo Tin Lok is portraying four roles in his latest movie Death Notify, Sin Chew Daily reported.

He will need to wear different makeup for each character.

“Every role will have different characteristics. I will have a disfigured face, I will be crippled. I will need four hours just to put on the makeup,” he said.

“I did not have a pay rise for this film because I signed on before I won the best actor award,” said Koo, who recently won the Best Actor prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The movie is an action mystery thriller directed by Herman Yau. Francis Ng, Julian Cheung, Pakho Chau and Myolie Wu will be starring alongside Koo.

Based on the Chinese novel, Death Notice, by Zhou Haohui, the movie started production last month.

> China’s Fan Bingbing will be acting in another Hollywood film, according to China Press. She will be co-acting alongside Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz and Lupita Nyong’o in a spy thriller 355.

The movie to be directed by Simon Kinberg, is adapted from the story of the first female spy in the American Revolution.

The cast will be making an appearance in the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.