So apparently the peeps at Dread Central were able to land an interview with Li Bingbing on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution. One of the more humorous questions being asked was how Li Bingbing felt about wearing the Ada Wong red dress. Since Miss Li is no stranger to the red carpet events in Asia it was an understandable response:
Q: What did it feel like putting on that red dress for the first time?
BingBing: (Laughs) You know what, the red dress looks like I should be walking on the red carpet, but the thing is that when I wear the gun holster, it looks totally different. It’s like cool and sexy and mysterious.
Q: Do you like doing action movies?
BingBing: You know what, actually for me, I really love to do action movies. In this movie we have a part when I meet Milla in a control room for the first time, and I did a flip in the air with wires. It’s fantastic. I was so excited with that. And when I shot a gun for the first time, the crew gave me gun training right before we started to shoot the movie, it was so exciting and totally different.
Q: How did you get the role? Did you audition? Can you talk about how you got the part?
BingBing: I am not really sure how I got this role, but I did audition. After a very few days, they gave me the reply and they said, ‘We loved you. We want to invite you to be Ada Wong.’ So I was surprised by how fast I got my reply. So exciting!
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Q: When you started acting back home in China, was it always your ambition to come to America to make films?
BingBing: Sometimes we don’t have to think about what we’re going to do next. I think a lot of things are given by fate. But there’s a philosophy that I live by: If God gives you a big cake, he first has to torture you a little bit.
Q: Have you found the American fight scenes to be more difficult or easier than in China?
BingBing: Mmm…it’s different. There’s a lot of techy things that are happening here that don’t exist over there…for example, how they cut the shots. How they divide up…how the shots are taken, from what angle, etc…but in China they stress more of an ability to fight, rather than cutting and making it look like they can fight.
It is usually pretty refreshing to read Li Bingbing’s interviews. Unlike many celebrities Li Bingbing always demonstrates a real honesty and frankness. More of this interview can be read on the Dread Central site by clicking here.
