Topic: Steven's character resembles Pu Chung Ling?
LINKS:
The full 35 mins interview (1)
Steven's comments on wu lei jing (3)
Steven's comments on Fala vs Linda (4)
Steven's good relationship with Fala (5)
Steven's 'mistresses' & conclusion (6)
Posted 08 June 2010 - 10:19 PM
AF ref: post 469 & 471
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CSY: Any challenge in PSL’s role?
S: Yes, very
CSY: How come? He’s just a scholar. Just talk about a fox spirit seducing him, that’s all
S: Of course, if it is just this, I’d be very happy. Haha! Actually, he was a bit neurotic. He thinks he can hear the animals talk. This part, we concocted. Whether he was this way, nobody knows. But we added this ability in our characterization. He is also attuned to the spirit world. So he can hear and see what normal people can’t. And this is following his own personality, he is very discontented with corruption in the imperial government, with the corrupt and greedy officials. So he is very contrary, so much so, that if he disagrees with the officials, he will straight away flip the table over (show his anger) … so his character is actually very tumultuous. And also, he has the typical melancholy of a scholar, and when confronted with love problems, he’ll become wah….
CSY: Is he (PSL) like you, Steven?
Fala: I think he is.
CSY: Good, Fala lets the cat out. Haha!
S: You just want to mention the part on the table flipping jeh.
CSY: he’s too into the character of psl
Fala: well..yeah..a bit similar..yeah.. PSL is a very warmhearted person, he cares about many things; and be concerned; when he notices something, he’ll observe that person, and tries to put himself in that person’s situation; that part is very like him (Steven).
CSY: so flipping the table over, Steven will do that too? Have you seen him done that, Fala?
Fala: can’t remember..haha!
CSY: Go spill the beans, yourself. (to Steven)
S: I won’t actually the flip over the table. But if observe some unfairness, not necessarily towards me..
Csy: Wah, look at Fala nodding her head so forcefully, it might fall, as if she has experienced it
S: She did experience that once?
Csy: she did? What was it? Must be Steven standing up for Fala?
S: Did that count?
Fala: I guess you could say it did.
Csy: go ahead, tell. Fala’s nodding her head so hard it almost fell off. Her hair's flying every which way.
S: Well, at the time, we were shooting a scene; there was this one crew member there; also maybe because we were all very tired already; I understand; she was acting out a difficult scene then; (CSY: ah Fala?) and there drifted this not very agreeable sound.
Csy: oh..oh! some words not agreeable to the ears
S: When I heard them, my temper rose, so I retorted: “What’s the matter now? Is there a problem?" Something like that. But of course, much louder than this.
Chorus: hahahaha
Csy: so that crew member must have been quite scared. Like startled.
S: I did talk him/her and ask him/her if he/she understood why I said that. Because I don’t think you should affect someone’s mood. She (Fala) was doing a scene, getting into character. She’d been through it several times already, and right at the time when she was getting really into it, getting the rush of emotions, the tears almost dropping, and then….someone saying this and that; should not be that way lah!
Csy: so your voice was very loud, what’s the reaction, Steven?
S: Mine or hers/his?
Csy: his/hers
S: usually – O-shaped mouth lo! (stunned) Hahaha!
Csy: And what’s Fala’s reaction? To have a righteous guardian angel?
Fala: I was absorbed in acting my scene. He taught me that I should not let other stuff distracts me. Can’t lose concentration. Stay focus, that's utmost importance. And so just let him take care of it for me.
S: It’s mutual caring. Just like when she saw me getting into my character, she would also say, “please be quiet!” like also did the same for Ka Yan and others. Am not saying the crew member was bad, they were all our partners-in-arms. But sometimes there were these younger ones (siu pang yao) who didn’t understand what we were doing, would horse around and be loud without knowing that it could affect other people. The crying scenes are very tough to do.
CSY: there’re lots of crying scenes?
Fala: yes, many
S: they were not just outright crying, a lot were like it was so painful you kept it all bottled inside that your eyes turned red.
Csy: just eyes getting red is very difficult to act out. Outright crying is easy, just drip some eye drops, but red eyes are more difficult to do,
S: well…
Csy: wanting to cry but tears won’t flow- that’s very difficult
S: yea, the tears brimming in the eyes but won’t fall.
Csy: a lot of this kind of scenes?
S & Fala: lots
S: I cried the most in the ending. For us actors, it is not appropriate to cry too much. You want to cry but couldn’t. That kind of feeling might be even more painful. Also, the ladies didn’t just sob either for all the scenes.
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