Spike The Beach#3

Lei Dou for the night

Lei Dou is a hip Hong Kong nightspot in Lan Kwai Fong, the name of which translates, colloquially, to 'here'. Many's the drunken night: "Where are you, Bey?", "Lei Dou(Here)", "Where's 'here'?", "Here!", "Where...?"

Our producing partners at Tsui Wah kindly provided this location to us for a romantic dinner scene between our two 'Beach Spike!' leads (Chrissie Chau and Law Jung-him), followed by a not so romantic bar fight in which Chau is forced to stand by her man.

Night shoots are always a challenge. However much you promise yourself to get some rest on the 'turnaround' day before, its never enough. By 3am, you're running on empty. (At least, I am, given that these days I'm usually the oldest guy on the set!).

We're really throwing everything but the kitchen sink at poor Law Jung-him. He has to speak dialogue in English, French and Spanish, have a fight scene, kiss Chrissie Chau... (Actually, that last bit isn't so bad...) We had a real French guy, my friend Laurent, playing a waiter, but, before he arrived, I was drafted in to help with Him's pronunciation.

Chrissie, who has a crazzzy schedule anyway, seems to have way more staying power than the rest of us.

For the drunken white guys that Him and Chrissie fight, I decided to go with typecasting, and brought in famed local boozehouse Simon Watkiss and my apprentice Craig Miller. Kidding aside, Simon is a fine local actor, who also trains in kung fu with my teacher, Mak Sifu, as does Craig, who was formerly a professional cage fighter in his native Scotland.

Ken Ip, German Cheung and the rest of our hard-working stunt team roused themselves in the early hours to put together a fast and furious fight scene.

Though he has a lot of experience in sports martial artists, this is Crrraig's first movie fight, and he loves the experience, clashing with Law Jung-him's Tim

And getting slammed into the floor repeatedly by our kung fu fighting leading lady.