Lust, Caution star keeps mum about cut scenes

Even as rumors spread that scenes of Tang Wei in The Founding of a Party have been cut because of her appearance in Ang Lee's sexually explicit Lust, Caution, the actress showed up in Beijing to promote another one of her films.

The 32-year-old star plays a mother for the first time in Wu Xia ("martial arts chivalry"), an action film directed by Hong Kong's Peter Chan. At a news conference on May 20, the press was directed to ask only those questions that pertained to Wu Xia. Tang was even stopped from responding to a question on how she felt about being back in the mainland film scene, by an employee of the production company.

She did not respond to the rumors about her cut scenes in the film that is a tribute to the 90th birth anniversary of the Communist Party of China, even at the just-concluded Cannes Film Festival, where Wu Xia was screened.