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Lulu Wang Discovered Hong Kong’s Hidden Neighborhoods, Noodle Shops and Speakeasies While Shooting ‘Expats’
Lulu Wang discovered the hidden noodle shops, neighborhoods and speakeasies of Hong Kong while filming ‘Expats.’
Then there’s the cool, clean, sterile apartments and neighborhood of the expats living on “The Peak.” Victoria Peak is a lush, plush mountaintop peppered with sleek modern buildings, leafy jogging trails and very expensive cars ferrying its privileged residents to and from engagements. She wanted to show huge disparity of wealth in Hong Kong, as well as the city embracing the East and West, its British colonial past and its present dealing with the politics of mainland China. The changes are noted in a scene between Mercy (Ji-young Yoo) and Charly (Bonde Sham) at the historic Mido Café, which, with its large neon sign, looks like something right out of Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love.”“That was one of the locations that is nostalgic,” says Wang.
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