Double act puts Lee in tough spot

Malaysian actress Angelica Lee Sinje said playing two characters in the new movie Divergence was one of the toughest experiences of her career.

Lee, 28, made a whistle-stop visit to Hong Kong this week to attend the premiere of Divergence at the Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Directed by Benny Chan Muk-sing, the film, due to be released on April 28, follows three strangers (Aaron Kwok Fu-sing, Ekin Cheng Yee-kin and Daniel Wu Yin-cho) who are drawn together by a murder. Lee's dual roles are as Kwok's missing fiancee and Cheng's wife and the mother of their two children.

'We wanted to create a feeling with the two characters,' Lee said. 'The audience may wonder if the two characters are the same person. But they'll have to wait till the end to find out.'

Lee, named best actress in 2002 at Hong Kong's Golden Bauhinia Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for her performance in horror film The Eye, said playing a mother was challenging.

'At the very beginning, I wondered if I was too young to be a mother,' she said.