[2024.01.23] GORDON LAM LEARNS TO SHOOT FROM AARON KWOK

Aaron Kwok picks up a toy gun for a shooting demonstration
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The 2024 Lunar New Year film ROB N ROLL (LUM SI GIP ONG) would open on February 9th (Lunar New Year's Eve). In the latest poster, Aaron Kwok Fu Sing with weapon in hand departs in a cute version taxi with Gordon Lam Ka Tung and Richie Jen (Yam Yin Chai) against a group of thieves and robbers and celebrate the Lunar New Year with the audience.

The three leads earlier suddenly had the idea of creating a shoot the bad guy game. Ka Tung picked up a toy gun and shot at plastic cups with the villains from the film on them, but he seemed to lack any shooting talent. Aaron had to personally demonstrate how to use the toy gun. Siu Chai was in character and lamented that he did not know how. When Ka Tung got it and could not miss, Aaron gave him for a doll as encouragement. However just like the character in the film, Aaron demanded for him to say "thank you" after accepting the gift. After a round of struggle finally Ka Tung submitted and said thank you. Of course all of the above were from their advanced Lunar New Year greeting parody video. Ka Tung had ample experience from gun fight scenes. In reality on the set he could almost become the gun instructor. Many actors have asked him for shooting and stance advice.

Ka Tung pointed out that this time ROB N ROLL was a fresh comedy subject. Not only was it a dark comedy, it also focused on telling the pain of men. He said, "This time Siu Chai, Sing Sing and I in ROB N ROLL played 3 middle aged men who were facing difficult issues." Playing the role "Lap Shui", Ka Tung said, "This term is pretty interesting, describing the chicken and the coward. When we reach a certain age, we know what we are capable of. Often when we have less and less courage and don't dare to take risks, people would describe that as 'lap shui' because they have too many burdens. Actually it's the portrait of many people."

Lo Hoi Pang in the film played Ka Tung's Papa. Ka Tung inevitably would be "greeted" by Papa. Ka Tung joked, "I have worked with Brother Pang a long times. He truly has the presence of Papa. He would 'greet' his son each time he would lecture him. Actually when I see him I am happy, the more he greets me the happier I get; because it means he has fire. That type of impact is truly love and hate, usually father and son are like this. This is his style, since we aren't at his age yet we might not necessarily understand it so deeply. He would make suggestions and the results are very decent." As for how he faced Brother Pang's "greeting", Ka Tung joked, "I opened my heart and let him greet me, but I have talked back before. Instead he backed off. Actually he doesn't like to be confrontational, he just want to have a clearer answer."

Ka Tung this time worked with Nancy Wu Ting Yan for the first time. She played his pregnant wife. Ka Tung felt that the collaboration was interesting as it went on. As for working with Siu Chai and Sing Sing, he was also very excited. "I work with Sing Sing a lot so we already have chemistry. With Siu Jai it's been six or seven years. Not only did I look forward to it, but we were also surprisingly compatible. Siu Chai and I everyday would have a lot of fun on the set. We didn't just treat everyone, we would also coordinate with each other on the characters' demands. He would follow along with how I perform, we would improvise together. It was a very fun process. I hope in the future we would have the chance to work together again."