Oriental whril: Tavia remains modest despite nomination

2009/11/23

Compiled by A-Wei

HONG Kong artiste Tavia Yeung remained modest despite being tipped as the hot favourite to land TVB’s best actress award this year. She plays her first villain role — as a scheming concubine — in the TVB blockbuster Beyond the Realm of Conscience. Tavia said that she’s happy just being nominated and added that she still has much to learn in acting. She’s rooting for the crowd’s favourite, veteran actress Sheren Tang, who played the fourth wife in the serial Rosy Business.

Tavia, one of the 15 nominees, said Sheren deserves the award because she was superb in the serial and more experienced.

The TVB Anniversary Awards 2009, which will take place on Dec 4, is an awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming for the year.

CHINESE actress Tang Wei has been cast alongside Hallyu actor Hyun Bin in an English language remake of the 1966 Korean masterpiece Late Autumn (also known as Manchu).

To be directed by award-winning director Kim Tae-yong, the Korean-American joint venture, which will be set in the United States, will be given a contemporary interpretation, said its producers.

The Chinese beauty, who was recently blacklisted by the Beijing authorities for her role in Ang Lee’s erotic spy thriller Lust, Caution, will play the character of a prisoner on special leave who falls in love with a man on the run.

HAS Hong Kong artiste Nnadia Chan bro- New Year’s Day.

ken up with Zhang Duo, her boyfriend of three years? Hong Kong media reported that Nnadia, who is rumoured to be missing after a heated argument with Zhang Duo, has deleted all references of him on her blog.

Attempts by the media to contact her were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, it is said that Zhang Duo has denied the rumours and added that the relationship is still stable.

Nnadia, 39, met the Mainland actor, who is eight years her junior, while filming in China in 2007.

SINGAPORE actor Ng Chin Han, who is in Roland Emmerich’s epic doomsday thriller 2012 as the Tibetan Tenzin, has landed another Hollywood role.

He will appear as a doctor in award-winning director Gus Van Sant’s still untitled coming-of-age drama, which was previously known as Restless, reports Channel News Asia.

Chin Han also starred as a villain in Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

AWARD-winning actress Maggie Cheung has agreed to grace Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Awards, the Chinese language equivalent of the Oscars, on Saturday, as a presenter.

This is the five-time Golden Horse award-winning actress’s first appearance at the event in nine years.

Meanwhile, there’s speculation that Carina Lau has declined an invitation to represent husband Tony Leung at the function because of Maggie’s presence. It is no secret that there’s a long running feud between both actresses over Tony that spans 20 years.

Carina’s manager, however, downplayed the issue, saying she’s busy shooting director Jiang Wen’s Let The Bullets Fly and that “things are fine between Carina and Maggie”.

DIRECTOR Jingle Ma will be shooting the sequel to his hit 2000 romantic comedy Summer Holiday, that was partly shot in Redang and Malacca, in March next year. The movie grossed HK$21 million (RM9.2 million) and was nominated in four categories at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Budgeted at about HK$25 million, Richie Ren and Sammi Cheng will again reprise their roles in the sequel, which is about life after marriage.

AWARD-winning Cantopop star Joey Yung, 29, has been diagnosed with a degenerative knee condition, reports Channel News Asia.

It is believed that the injury was caused by her busy schedule. Joey said: “I always go all out in everything I do and may have neglected my health for too long.” Joey, who performed in 20cm heels during her latest concert, however, was adamant that she will continue performing on heels.

“I’ll probably wear shorter heels now, but when I really need to look my best, I’ll wear high heels, the higher the better!” TAIWANESE pop queen Jolin Tsai has been voted as the No.1 sexiest female singer in Asia in a recent poll by Taiwanese online music store KKBOX.

She polled 3,287 votes, ahead of Namie Amuro of Japan, Elva Hsiao (Taiwan), Kumi Koda (Japan) and Hyori Lee (Korea).

Currently on a three-month vacation, the award-winning singer, who’s also known as the commercial queen by the media, will pocket a S$5 million (RM12 million) pay cheque shooting three commercials when she returns to work on New Year’s Day.

HONG Kong actress Michelle Yim is in the running for the Best Actress award in this year’s Asian Television Awards (ATA) to be held in Singapore on Dec 3.

She will be running against Mediacorp artistes Zoe Tay, Fann Wong, Joanne Peh and Yvonne Lim, Gu Hye Seon of Korea and Robyn Malcolm of New Zealand.

Considered as Asia’s equivalent of the Emmys, Michelle was nominated for her role as the villainous second wife Hung Yee in TVB’s blockbuster serial Moonlight Resonance.

BESIDES winning the Icon of the Year award, Hallyu star Kim Hyesoo also bagged the Female TV Actress award during the recent 2009 Style Icon Awards event.

Organised by O’live tv, the event honours the top trendsetters in Korea.

She was honoured for her edgy acting as Park Kija, a chief editor for the fashion magazine Style in the SBS TV series Style, the Korean version of Hollywood film The Devil Wears Prada.

The other winners included SS501’s Kim Hyun-joong (Most Popular Icon) and 2NE1 (Female Singer).

Sammi (left) and Richie.