{"id":97840,"date":"2026-11-06T07:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97840"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:44:02","slug":"profile-how-tony-leung-chiu-wai-became-hong-kongs-most-decorated-and-reluctant-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97840","title":{"rendered":"Profile | How Tony Leung Chiu-wai became Hong Kong\u2019s most decorated \u2013 and reluctant \u2013 movie star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/04\/aa9875d3-ae02-4cc7-b510-a627df60fe84_c107a428.jpg?itok=vTsDPdaB&amp;v=1793780559\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<section class=\"er6t7fe39 css-19sk4h4 e1pqt1t0\" data-qa=\"ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">This is the 89th instalment in a<\/em> <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">biweekly series<\/em><\/span> <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.<\/em><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Tony Leung Chiu-wai is arguably the most decorated actor in Hong Kong cinema history, he would be the last person to tell you so.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an era where cinema is dominated by spectacle and carefully curated self-promotion, Leung remains a rarity. Despite being one of Asia\u2019s biggest stars, he performs with remarkable subtlety and treats fame as little more than an inconvenient by-product of his passion for acting.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"er6t7fe5 css-1brgu1k e1pqt1t0\" data-qa=\"ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3373247\/how-tony-leung-chiu-wai-became-hong-kongs-most-decorated-and-reluctant-movie-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 89th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. While Tony Leung Chiu-wai is arguably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32462,32463,3569,5010,8844,1543,4944,12312,297,8843],"class_list":["post-97840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chiuwai","tag-decorated","tag-hong","tag-kongs","tag-leung","tag-movie","tag-profile","tag-reluctant","tag-star","tag-tony","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}