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| Locker Lam and Dee Ho talk about their memorable production courtesy of on.cc |
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| Locker Lam and Dee Ho admits CESIUM FALLOUT is worth the difficult production |
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| Dee Ho remembers that the child actor is one size largers for the re-shoot a month later |
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| Locker Lam suffers a second grade tear on his right leg. courtesy of mingpao.com |
A member of the guy group ERROR, Dee Ho Kai Wa and Locker Lam Ka Hei played firefighters in the new film CESIUM FALLOUT (FUN SING). They were interviewed a few days ago. Going into life and death situations and as close as brothers, they put on "golden armors" to rescue people trapped in the fire. The most memorable scene for Dee was when he had to carry an 8-year-old child to escape from the disaster scene. He said, "This shoot was very rough. In the story the character is hurt and can feel that his physical strength is starting to decline. Before the shoot the director asked me how many takes I could do, I say at most two takes. Finally we did 3, by the 3rd take I thought, 'why have the child gotten so much heavier?' Months later we need additional shoots, but on the set I saw the child has gotten much taller and a size larger. I immediately got chills in my heart." He joked that if the director needed more re-shoots, the child would have to carry him. Dee said that CESIUM FALLOUT was physically the most difficult production in his career. Wearing the heavy and stuffy "golden armor", he entered the intense fire for the shoot and also had to handle many action scenes. Everyday was like being in the sauna. Although he has to work at least 8 to 10 hours a day, he also found it fun. After work he felt like he was working on a superhero movie; after experience a war he was completely "drained" and much thinner. However he felt that the movie was worth all the hardship. "This was an once in a lifetime experience, perhaps no one would ask me to play a firefighter again. This time I deeply sensed that the job of a firefighter was truly not a simple one." In addition to successfully challenging the limits of his physical strength, Dee also had emotional scenes and the director gave him space to perform. He said that when filming another major scene, the director put forward the request of "torturing you to death", but it inspired him to sublimate his acting skills. "The shoot went on for over a hour, the director pushed me to the limits. After completion my body felt a little unwell, but it was a lot of fun. Actually my acting could go so far, which helped me increase a lot of nutrients."
For Locker the most memorable was bringing reality into the film when he worked injured. In the film his character had to jump half a story from the second floor, then jumped down again and got hurt. He said, "A character was really injured. During the filming, I really injured my right leg when I landed. The doctor said that I had a second-degree ligament tear. I toughed out the pain and kept performing. Luckily since the character was injured, for two months I limped to play the firefighter. The production wasn't affected and I was fine with just being myself. However I had to shoot the ViuTV drama SPARKS at the same time. My leg was tremendously swollen, and I had to ride in a wheelchair to the ice skating rank for work." He said that when he was not working, he would go for acupuncture, blood letting and physical therapy. When asked if he has recovered, Locker said, "Walking isn't a problem anymore. I don't need any further physical therapy, but the ligament isn't as flexible as it used to be. I have to stretch diligently." The on set injury has not scared him away from taking another action film, because action film productions were his favorite.
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