Back in July, Nina gave you a casting update on Ang Lee's World War II chinese-language espionage film, Lust, Caution. At that time, we knew that Tony Leung would be playing a politician and Tang Wei a woman who gets tangled up in his political web.
Now we have a few more details... The story is based on a 26-page short story by Chinese author Eileen Chang (sorry, but that reminds of that Seinfeld episode with Donna "She's not Chinese!" Chang) which centers around a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the war.
Leung will play Mr. Yi, the intelligence chief, and Wei will play a student that seduces him, paving the way for the assassination attempt.
The Associated Press is also reporting that Joan Chen has joined the cast to play Yi's wife. Chen is probably best know to American audiences for her role in ABC TV's Twin Peaks, where she played the ultra-hot widow Josie Packard, girlfriend of doofus sherrif Harry Truman, in what had to be some crazy mail-order bride scheme. I mean, come on. Speaking of Twin Peaks, was there ever a show on TV that had as many ultra-hot people in it as that one? Whoever was assigned to do the hair and makeup on that show was a genius... no... a GOD.
