Norah Jones for HK movie

Talk about a charmed life. Singer Norah Jones is starring in the next Wong Kar-wai movie, despite having no acting experience. My Blueberry Nights is the story of an enigmatic blueberry pie eater who travels across America to find true love. It’s the first English language movie for Wong, and will be launched in June. One of the actresses in it, Rachel Weisz (you know her as the female lead in The Mummy and The Constant Gardener) is working with Wong on his 2008 project, a 1930s spy thriller called The Lady From Shanghai.

            Wong has revealed that My Blueberry Nights was based on a Hong Kong short movie he did, but it must have evolved: the two main elements are long-distance road travel and blueberry pies, neither of which are exactly characteristic of Hong Kong.