21-05-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
#SHOWBIZ: Andy Lau accepts 70 per cent pay cut for thriller role
HONG KONG: Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau recently took a 70 per cent pay cut to appear in Herman Yau's crime-thriller, A Gilded Game.
Dimsun Daily reported that Lau revealed investors were hesitant to finance a film about finance that lacked explosions and fast-paced sequences.
"I'm not afraid to reveal that all of us took just one-third of our usual salaries to allow most of the budget to be used for the completion of the film," Lau said.
"As a result, the budget for A Gilded Game was only 20 per cent of that of previous films Yau had directed and which starred me."
In A Gilded Game, Lau portrays an equity analyst with unwavering principles, who becomes a mentor to a new finance graduate faced with a moral dilemma.
