[新聞]Sunshine kid (The Straits Time)
Sunshine kid (The Straits Time)
AN ERRANT slipper got in Hong Kong star Daniel Chan's way recently.
There he was immersed in a tub, ready to recreate a romantic underwater
kissing scene from the 1987 Tsui Hark film, A Chinese Ghost Story,
for the small-screen remake now airing on Channel U.
He was waiting for his Taiwanese co-star Barbie Hsu to bend down and lock
lips with him, as Joey Wong did with Leslie Cheung in the original.
Then Chan opened his eyes, only to see 'a red flower on my left and a slipper
on my right'. The slipper had dropped off the foot of a lighting man,
who later got an earful from Chan.
But the floating footwear did make for an 'unforgettable' moment on the set
in Yunnan province, says the 27-year-old actor-singer.
Chan, in town for the Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao's ZPop Concert last Saturday
, appears always ready to look on the bright side of things these days.
Hitting the Hong Kong pop scene eight years ago, he has weathered media
storms over his manager Rebecca Leung's suicide and his now-expired
romance with actress Cecilia Cheung.
Specifically, rumours were rife in 2000 that Leung ended her life because of
her unrequited love for him, and the bad press is thought to have dimmed his
star power.
But he tries to sound positive when asked about his bad experiences during a
chat with Life! and also at a press meet on Monday.
'The things I encountered in relation to the press made me grow up,
' he says in almost accentless Mandarin.
Choosing his words with care, he adds: 'Every episode is valuable.
I am thankful to my music teacher and hope to do him proud one day.
'My manager's death made me cherish friendship.
I was in a relationship once' - with Cheung - 'and now I know what it is to
be a real man.' His love life has been a blank after his break-up with Cheung
two years ago, and he is still 'waiting for a person I love, and who will
dote on me'.
Till then, working hard to provide for his parents comes first.
'My mother wants apartments and diamonds. My father wants apartments,
abalone and expensive cars,' he says, with a laugh.
His mother was weeping, he adds, when burglars broke into their home last
month and made off with HK$500,000 (S$113,500) worth of her jewellery.
'All I could do was pass her tissue paper and tell her:
'I'll give it back to you in a year.' '
Career-wise, his plate is now full with publicity rounds for his latest
Mandarin record, Perfect Love.
His record label Universal Music has sent 7,500 copies of the CD to stores
across Singapore, which is 2,500 more than for previous Chan titles.
But it is too soon to tell how it is selling, a spokesman says.
Chan, as savvy Mando-pop lovers know, is far from outselling the likes of
Taiwanese R&B prince Jay Chou, whose CDs are selling in the tens of thousands.
Chan himself says: 'Every singer has a path.
I cannot suddenly become Jay Chou.
I can just hope that my path is not too narrow and that I can show off my
strengths.'
In the year to come, Chan, who has mostly been in forgettable fluff like
Expect A Miracle in 2001, hopes to spice up his acting career by
'making movies with more substance'.
He also dreams of trying his hand at directing films, and starting an artist
agency.
But 'my biggest dream is that my heart is full of sunshine forever',
he says with a somewhat wistful look.
Perfect Love is out now. A Chinese Ghost Story airs on Channel U on weekdays
at 10.45pm.
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不要問我這篇是什麼意思。
－－+ 因為我也看不懂。
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