When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

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I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

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I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

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I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

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I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

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If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

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But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

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