"I'm sure everyone has a girlfriend or boyfriend who behaves like that. These
reactions just seem blown up when they are on screen," she says.
Marriage is not on the cards now for the eldest daughter of veteran Hong Kong
movie icon Cheng Pei-pei.
She wants to focus on her career which started with her debut in Three in 2002,
and her efforts seem to be paying off.
Mail Order Wife won the Best Independent Feature award at California's Santa
Barbara Film Festival in February.
She can be seen next opposite stars like Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh
in the upcoming Memoirs of a Geisha, a movie based on the best-selling novel by
Arthur Golden.
Eugenia Yuan in 'Mail Order Bride' |
She plays the best friend of Gong Li's treacherous character, Hatsumomo. "We're
both kind of evil, but it's very fun. Gong Li is an amazing person to work with
and I was very fortunate."
In between acting, Yuan, who was part of the US national rhythmic gymnastics
team, keeps herself nimble with dancing and martial arts lessons.
But she is quick to wave aside comparisons with her mother, who made her name
as a kungfu actress in the 1960s and is still acting. "I'm proud of what she
has achieved but I want to pave my own road."
But if given the chance, she would relish working with her mother, she says.
"There have been lots of things thrown at us, but we haven't found the one we
want yet."
