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Stealer
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RW: Some of it is luck. Some of it is timing. Some of it is not having the right people around you at the right time. Some of it is my own good or bad decisions.
GS: How many films have you done in Hong Kong?
RW: Not that many. Maybe four or five.
GS: What made you go to Hong Kong in the first place?
RW: In 1983 a woman from Cinema City was here in LA looking for talent. She met me and invited my brother [Michael] and me to go to screentest. We went over there, screentested and then they wanted us to play in some movies. My brother ended up staying for while. I did a couple films and came back.
GS: This is before you became a dancer?
RW: At the same time.
GS: Were you going to Santa Monica City College then?
RW: Yeah.
GS: You were dancing in college?
RW: It wasn't actually at the college. It was in workshops and in town, like ballet and Dupre's. And then I went to Hong Kong and that's actually when I met Flora. She's a dancer as well.
GS: Was that on the movie called Musical Dancer?
RW: I was doing that movie but I met Flora on another movie.
GS: Do you have any thoughts of going back to Hong Kong?
RW: No, Hong Kong [film] industry isn't really happening right now. It's really just a few studios doing films, not really big, and I don't know if I would fit in there.
GS: It wouldn't meet your pay scale?
RW: Probably not.
GS: Even if you got a leading-man role, you would rather work in Hollywood?
RW: Well, if it was good material like Infernal Affairs -- that would be different.
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GS: Would the pay be comparable?
RW: No,
GS: So you'd still be paid better playing a smaller part here?
RW: Yeah, but it's not always about the money.
GS: You have to make a living.
RW: I can live on a little.
GS: Have you been able to support yourself through acting these past twenty years?
RW: It hasn't been easy but I've been able to do it.
GS: What was the ballpark you were paid for Romeo Must Die?
RW: I'd rather not say.
GS: Was it in the six figures?
RW: Like a couple hundred thousand.
GS: Right now do you feel you should be way beyond that? Is that what you've been holding out for?
RW: I'm not holding out.
GS: You said you were being too picky...
RW: Yeah, after Romeo Must Die, but that wave has passed, so those opportunities are gone.
GS: Has Black Sash generated any interest?
RW: I don't know. We'll see.
GS: Was Black Sash the role you were holding out for?
RW: No. It's TV. My taste is like Merchant Ivory's Remains of the Day, but to find that kind of material is going to take some work. I guess my taste is not really action movies, althought if it was something more sophisticated, not just bang-bang shoot-'em-up, it would be interesting. But that may or may not happen. It would have to be big budget and I would have to attract good people and good people have to see my value in it too.
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