Exclusive interview with Daniel Wu

A scene from Daniel Wu's upcoming film "Control," to be released on Nov 21. Photo provided to China Daily

Who are your heroes in real life?

I think my first real hero was my first kungfu teacher, i think he was my first mentor, not because he just taught me kungfu, but he was, I would say, a renaissance man, he was a Chinese doctor, he could do acupuncture, herbal medicine, he was a painter, he was a lawyer, he also did taichi and qigong. he was a very well rounded person, sort of getting me interested in trying to learn as much as I could, that's one thing that allows me to have the success ahead in my life. I am always considering of trying to learn new things. Whether I use it or not is not really important. The knowledge is in your head, in your blood, in your brain and vein

The natural talent that you like to be gifted with?

I wish I could have the comedian sense of a standup comedian, because people like that are never boring. In any kind of situation they know what to say, plus you can do comedy movies, which is the type of movie that I don't do that much.