Oriental Daily interview 5:
The final installment to Steven's 5 piece interview
Steven Ma emanating a young master's quality, at first sight, gave an impression of being born into an affluent family and also of being a returned overseas student entering the entertainment industry as an artist. Being repeatedly mistaken as such at the time, Steven promptly clarified his background and even made it a point to reveal he was actually an estate housing resident, that while still in his teens he had already held a job to help out his family's financial situation, and at the same time also had to take care of his cancer mother, and that his mother's passing away so pained him that he fell into depression. Fortunately, relying on sports he was able to release the pent-up negative energy and walk out of the gloomy haze.
When I was young I spent most of my time at home caring for my nasopharyngeal cancer mother, and seldom went out to play... I actually did not have those wild and reckless years! It was not until 1999 that my mother passed away, at the time I was doing promotion for Ultra Protection. I was devastated, went a bit crazy even, (shotshot dei tim) ..my mother's death was a big blow, and I got very depressed. At that time, I was diagnosed having depression by the doctor and needed to take medicine timely.
Rejuvenation
During that period, my friends around me were aware of my erratic moods, at the time I did not have any religious belief yet, so I used work to tranquilize myself, and later even began to take up sports such as: table tennis and badminton. Sports can expunge negative energy. Recently, my group of friends feel that I have become rejuvenated, the whole of me have become more sunshine!
Precursor of homebody males
Truth be told, my mother in the end passed away, that did lighten my burden because during my growth in those 22 years, I took care of my mother for a prolonged period. During that period besides filming I would be home. I seldom ate out. My personality did lean toward self-withdrawal so I dubbed myself the 'precursor to homebody males' ! And my father was the sole breadwinner. He drove a bus as a means to raise our family of seven. Though we did not lack for money we were no wealthy family. But many people thought I was a returned overseas student when in fact I was an estate housing resident. I was 14 years old in a job selling ice cream. The former Miss Hong Kong, Michelle Lee and Sheila Chan had all seen me. --The end--
Afterthought - open up your heart
Steven claimed himself self-withdrawn, although that was in his earlier years. This writer through this interaction found him to be an easy and good conversationalist. Probably what he did not say before he saved them all for today's endless topics, making this whole interview process a very pleasant one.
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---original article---
一副略帶少爺仔氣質的馬浚偉，驟覺是富貴人家出身兼在外國留學返港入娛樂圈的藝人，當事人屢屢被誤會誓作澄清，還指自己是屋邨仔，未成年便已打工賺錢養家，還得照顧患癌母親，至母親離世後更傷痛得患抑鬱症，幸而靠運動釋放負能量才走出陰霾。
我年輕時大部分時間都放在屋企，照顧患鼻咽癌的媽媽，好少去玩……我根本冇乜輕狂歲月o架！直至1999年阿媽走咗，我當時正為劇集《非常保鑣》宣傳，心情真係好難受，shotshot哋添……媽媽去世這個打擊，令到我很抑鬱，當時醫生確診我患抑鬱症要定時食藥！
返老還童
過渡期間，身邊朋友都覺得我情緒大上大落，當時我未有信仰，要靠與朋友傾訴、用工作令自己平靜過來，最後更開始接觸運動，打乒乓球、羽毛球等，運動可以釋放負能量，近年我班朋友覺我返老還童，整個人都陽光咗！
宅男始祖
講真，我媽媽最後走咗，卻讓我減輕了心理負擔，因為在我成長期間的廿二年裏，我是長時間照顧媽媽，那段日子除了拍戲便返家，很少在外食飯，性格的確有點自閉，所以我堪稱是早期的『宅男』！而爸爸就擔起全頭家，他揸巴士養育我們一家七口，錢雖然不缺但亦不是大富人家，但很多人卻以為我是番書仔，其實我是屋邨仔，我14歲就開始出來賣雪糕，前港姐李嘉欣、陳淑蘭都見過我啦！」（完）
後記 打開心扉 馬浚偉聲稱自閉，雖是早期的事，筆者當下接觸卻覺得他健談得很，大抵是他將早年沒有講的說話，留來今日滔滔不絕的話題，令到訪問過程相當開心呢。
口述：馬浚偉 筆錄：影視組 服裝：Bally 場地：Sky21 攝影：劉智源
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