- When the director chose a Chinese actor, the first thing he thought of was the translator Ying Ruocheng . When he called Ying’s house, his son Da Ying picked it up. Da Ying informed the director that his father had passed away. It was this opportunity that gave Da Ying the opportunity to act. The crew even changed the age of the role from 60. Years down to adjust.
- Wang Luoyong heard that the director of " A Room with a View ", Ivory, was coming to China for filming, so he immediately volunteered to act in the film.
- Ralph Fiennes plays a blind man in the film. To interpret this role, he lived with a blind man at the Royal Academy for the Blind for several months .
- Because Ralph wanted to speak Shanghainese in the film, he asked his assistant to mark the pronunciation of the lines with phonetic symbols, and then follow the translation of the mouth to compare and practice again and again .
- Vanessa Redgrave plays Natasha Richardson's mother-in-law's sister in the film, but in reality the two are mother and daughter. Lynn Redgrave, who plays Natasha's husband's mother, is Natasha's aunt .
The White Countess behind the scenes gags
2022-01-22 08:03
Extended Reading
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Taxi Dance Hall Manager: What are you doing? Dancing with a blind man! You will disturb the other guests.
Todd Jackson: You try and stop us.
[says something in Chinese]
Taxi Dance Hall Manager: You will disturb the other guests.
Sofia: If you have any objections, kindly go to hell.
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Todd Jackson: She is the countess Sofia Alexeyevna Belinskaya. She has everything that I wanted for this place. She has the allure, the tragedy, the weariness. She knows that history has no place for her kind anymore. She is perfect. My centre piece.