Ang Lee: ‘I know I’m gonna get beat up. But I have to keep trying’

The celebrated film-maker’s new film pits Will Smith against his much-younger clone – a reverie on the ageing of both the star and the directorYou haven’t seen nerves until you’ve met Ang Lee on the day his new film receives its world premiere.

This is Gemini Man, a frantic thriller in which Will Smith plays an assassin hunted by his own younger clone; where there’s a Will, there’s another Will, you might say.

Parts of the picture were shot in Budapest, and it is here that the 64-year-old film-maker shuffles into a hotel suite overlooking the Danube.

“Everything feels harder than you can imagine right now,” he sighs, sinking into an armchair.

He picks up a glass from the table in front of him, then puts it down again.

“Even lifting that was hard.”He doesn’t carry himself today like one of the most celebrated film-makers of all time,

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