[2024.01.04] EDWARD CHEN WANTS TO "ELIMINATE" THE DIRECTOR

Edward Chen's first Hong Kong film feels like a dream to him
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The single Edward Chen says that he is not currently date, so he has nothing to worry about other than work
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Edward Chen earlier came to Hong Kong to promote the romance LOVE AT FIRST LIE (BUT SI NEI BUT OI NEI). In his first Hong Kong film, he and female lead "Ah Bo" Mandy Tam Man Huen had a romance that tugs at the heart strings and he even took her first on screen kiss. However when speaking of the 6 minute long kiss scene, Edward declared that he wanted to grab the director to "eliminate the witness". He said, "We kept kissing, but the director never yelled cut. We then kept changing the kissing angles. Because both of our noses are very big, our noses kept running into each other." However the most upsetting for him was that the scene in the end was cut down to one second. Edward joked, "I really want to grab a knife and stab the director to death!" Edward Chen said that recently he learned about Mandy's new romance and could only say sorry to Mandy's boyfriend. In the past he kissed guys in movies. What was the difference? He said that the feeling was the same, both were warm and he would still get shy. After the kiss scene with Mandy though, he did not feel awkward when they saw each other again because they were s close as siblings.

Coming to work on a movie in Hong Kong for the first time, Edward said that it felt like a dream. He felt that the film rhythm was very different from Taiwan films. Hong Kong film's pace was fast. When he watched the movie again he could not follow all of it.

Edward Chen revealed that the production process only took half a month. Because in the film he only had a few lines of Putonghua and almost all of them were in Cantonese, everyday he practiced with his driver in very rotten Cantonese. "However some pronunciations are very hard to read, like Leung Chung Hang's name in the film 'Keung Gor'. Every time when I had to call him it was very difficult, but actually using foul language was easy. The staff taught some very long dirty terms!"

In the future Edward Chen would like to come to Hong Kong to make movies again, especially crime films. He even hoped to have the opportunity to work with his idol Tony Leung Chiu Wai in the future. He said, "I can work on any movie with him. (If you have to take off your clothes?) That's not good, I am better off doing the acting part well."

Edward Chen in the film had to play a patient in a part of the film. Thus before his performance he asked the director for time for him to lose weight. He chose to fast for ten days and lose around 10 pounds before performing.