[2024.10.20] DAYO WONG PRACTICES JAPANESE FOR THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Michelle Wai has both love and career, much to the envy of others

Rachel Leung and Catherine Chau promote their new film together
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Michelle Wai had convulsions from crying so hard at the audience appreciation shows, while Dayo Wong is saving himself to watch the movie in its entirety at the premiere

Rachel Leung reveals that when she watches Dayo Wong and Catherine Chau's scene, she cannot help but cry
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Dayo Wong urges viewers to bring tissues to the movie because THE LAST DANCE has several scenes that would touch everyone

Dayo Wong poses with fans

Rachel Leung, Michelle Wai and Catherine Chau attend the press conference
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The movie THE LAST DANCE (POR. DEI YUK) charity poster stills exhibition will be held next Friday, and actors Dayo Wong Tze Wah, Michelle Wai Sze Nga, Catherine Chau Ka Yee, Rachel Leung Yung Ting and director Anselm Chan Mou Yin participated in yesterday's press conference.

THE LAST DANCE has been scheduled for release on November 9th, and the preview shows were sold out and had good word of mouth. Even if the film subject was not the comedy Tze Wah was used to playing, the audience accepted it just the same. Tze Wah joked, "I represent the audience when I choose some movies, I dare to say that anything I made wouldn't be too hard to watch. I wouldn't trick everyone. Now I have a lot of understanding of the funeral business, anyone in need can ask me." However he admitted that the funeral subject this time was indeed bold, and the audience's reaction was even better than he imagined.

After days of advanced screenings, lead actress Wai Sze Nga has also attended the audience appreciation shows and could not help but succumb to tears from interacting with the audience. She said, "I went to a few performances to thank the audience, and I had to hold back my tears at all of them. Last night the audience shared that a parting with the family that was similar to the situation in the movie, which touched me. I felt so heartbroken when I shared the experience of my role, with all the emotions inside I couldn't help but cry again. I even had convulsions from crying, and I had to think of other songs to distract myself in my head!"

Tze Wah has been to audience appreciation shows. He said that he was worried about the heavy subject matter of the film before, but everyone gave rare praises of the touching parts. Did he get teary eyed from watching the movie? Tze Wah joked, "I am saving myself for watching the premiere, but I watched the earlier cuts at home; without sound effect and not the full version, I was already teary eyed. The movie would make everyone cry. In addition to being sad, it also left everyone with something afterwards." Did Tze Wah think it was more difficult to make people laugh or cry? He felt they were both just as difficult.

Tze Wah and Sze Nga will go to Japan to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Since they would not be in competition, Tze Wah said that they would be going to walk the red carpet, discuss the film and interact with the audience. Tze Wah has been practicing Japanese hard to introduce his character. "In order to introduce the master of ceremony role I play in Japanese, I have already practiced a dozen times." He then recited it in Japanese but it was still not fluent enough. Fortunately he still had time to practice. He even asked Wai Sze Nga to also practice introducing her role in Japanese. Speaking of many industry insiders attending the Tokyo International Film Festival this year like Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Johnnie To Kei Fung, would they meet with them? He joked, "Their position are high and mighty, so I probably won't be able to see them."

In addition Sze Nga was photographed buying grapes and going home to feed her cohabiting fiancé? Sze Nga laughed and said that the report was wrong. Her fiancé was sick and coughing, so he did not have grapes at all. The photograph was also the unit she rented, she said, "We are all about to get married, sometimes he comes to my place and I sometimes go to his. As for the love nest we are still looking, even if we wouldn't find one it wouldn't matter. We would probably rent a place. For now we haven't considered buying a place, We have to work harder to make more money first!"

Chau Ka Yee was already playing Wong Tze Wah's girlfriend for the second time; last time THE GRAND GRANDMASTER (MUK DOI JUNG SI) was a comedy, and this time she did not have many scenes. Ka Yee joked that she really minded how few scenes she had, if she was able to make more it would be better. However after reading the script, she thought they were appropriate, and the director did not cut her away from what was shot. She thought that the script was properly arranged and the topic of life and death was the focus. This time Tze Wah was very serious and she learned a lot from Tze Wah. Everyone this time would see a different Tze Wah. Leung Yung Ting said this was the second time she worked with director Chan Mou Yin and played a lesbian both time. However this time would be very different from the one in READY O/R ROT (BUT YUT SING FUN 2) earlier. She smiled and pointed out that the director was very ambitious, even similar roles could have different interpretations. Last time she was more butch and this time she would be feminine.

Speaking of working with Wong Tze Wah, they both said that they were not nervous and praised how nice Tze Wah was. Ka Yee said, "He wouldn't make you feel like he is a god, he is human, very familiar, very comfortable, without any distance at all." Leung Yung Ting said that Tze Wah cared for every co-star very much. Wong Tze Wah and Wai Sze Nga both said that they could not help but cry from watching the movie. Ka Yee said that she would save her official viewing for the premiere, while Leung Yung Ting has already watched the completed version. She revealed that when she watched the scene with Tze Wah and Ka Yee she cried. She said that at the time she truly felt Ka Yee's pain.