Song Jie’s Secret Talk: Steven Ma Undergoing Metamorphosis

Song Jie’s Secret Talk: Steven Ma Undergoing Metamorphosis
Jan 7 2010

I believe Steven Ma is undergoing metamorphosis. He has transformed himself from a ‘shuai ge’, a ‘xiu sang’, into a ‘shuai ge’ who uses acting skill to win over more viewers. Really should applaud him as an encouragement!

A Watchdog Tale is but a sketch on real life drama, a far cry from the likes of Beyond the Realm of Consciousness or Born Rich. Nevertheless, both Steven and Linda Chung drastically transformed themselves for this series. Especially Steven’s obnoxious character of a Hakka jerk, who, nonetheless, possess a good heart, and is filial to his mother; hence, this jerk is still worthy of many females’ appreciation!

Whilst in production, Steven did share some amusing anecdotes that had occurred in the course of shooting. But at the time the series was not aired yet, so what he said I could not readily relate to, then; but now that the series is out all the funny stuff he had told me came back.

When I came upon an especially enjoyable and amusing scene, I had this urge to call him immediately, just to chat and laugh with him, of course, at the same time to praise him directly. But that was just a passing thought for when I was free to call him up he was all tied up with work; turn out he is busily preparing the recording for that cooking show. He has to get hold of a “kitchen god” to be his partner. Even without working on a series, he is still kept pretty busy.

Forgot to mention his duet with Linda Chung. It is a rather pleasant and lighthearted song but will it become a classic? Hard to tell. Too bad I do not have Linda’s contact because I would like to ask her where she got that wig she wore in the series. That wig was truly atrocious and adversely affected her. Don’t understand why TVB would not spend money to get a better wig or maybe the person-in-charge was just being sloppy. People with sight can all see how very atrocious that wig was. Poor Linda!

Source: http://www.singpao.c...D=70357&Lang=sc
credit reposting from Steven-ma.org

TN: Song Jie is a veteran reporter/columnist of Sing Pao.