[2024.12.02] DANNY LEE NO LONGER HAS THE ACTING BUG

The 72 year old Danny Lee has no acting bug. Currently he and his wife are living their lives in retirement, and traveling

Koni Lui makes an appearance to support her godfather Wong Ka Hei's book release
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Danny Lee Sau Yin, John Chiang Dai Wai, Chin Siu Ho, Ting Yu, Koni Lui Wai Yee, Susan Shaw Yam Yam, Jojo Cho Chuen and others attended the press conference of the late "Aunt Six" Mona Fong Yat Wah's cousin and famous Shaw Brothers producer Wong Ka Hei's new book "Wong Ka Hei's Years as a Shaw Brothers Producer" yesterday. Lee Sau Yin said that he has known Wong Ka Hei for decades, and when he intended to write a book, he invited Lee to help write the preface. Lee praised him for solving difficult problems for the boss and actors when he was working at Shaw Brothers, and he was a good person who never lost his temper.

Lee Sau Yin recalled that after graduating from the training class in 1971, he joined Shaw Brothers and the normal salary was only HK$ 500. He said that it was not enough to support his family and planned to change jobs. Fong Yat Wah raised it to HK$ 750 to keep him. "I told Wong Ka Hei that I wanted to support my family, HK$ 500 was not enough. He helped me get HK$ 750 a month. No, this was a secret. Of course I didn't go around and tell everyone I got HK$250 more. No one knew how much the others were making. My salary wasn't considered high. The highest salary must be lead actors like Brother John (Chiang Dai Wai) and Brother Lung (Ti Lung)." Lee Sau Yin said that Wong Ka Hei was responsible for helping the company solve problems, and said with a smile, "Miss (Mona) Fang Yat Wah would look to him whenever she had any strange and miscellaneous problems, so he was taking a beating everyday because the actors wanted raises, the props did not have enough staff. He had to solve the problems of all parties, but he truly couldn't be a nicer person. He never complained for decades at Shaws. Whenever we felt anything was unreasonable, he would appear. I couldn't hit him even if I wanted to, he was too thin. In addition he put a lot of effort into solving problems. After some actors became famous they would call in sick and not work, he would comfort them and ask the company to give them pay raises. Although everyone called him the boss, but he was actually a miscellaneous worker." Lee Sau Yin said frankly that he no longer had the acting bug; he mainly rested and went wherever he wants, but he did not like to fly. He liked to go to Lantau Island for exercises the most. He smiled and said, "Hiking is not the same as trail running, I am not the Fat Gor (Chow Yun Fat) type, but sometimes I would bump into him when hiking in Sai Kung." Did Lee Sau Yin he still have businesses? He said frankly that they ended after the pandemic, firstly it was difficult to do business, and secondly he did not know how to do business. He also handed it over to his nephew to take care of it before.

Just returned to Hong Kong from promoting in the mainland, Koni Lui Wai Yee turned out to be one of Wong Ka-hei's god daughters. She said that she knew her Godfather through her ex-husband, and her son "Crab Roe" was also his god grandson. She said, "Godfather often asks us to go to his house for dinner. Although I am in TVB and he works at Shaw Brothers, he still shares a lot of outlook on life and cheers me up for work. I like to go to his house to have 'Wong Family meals' the most." Lui Wai Yee praised Godfather for having friends all over the world. His godchildren would gather together for every major holiday, the scene was spectacular and also proved that Godfather was an admirable and respected elder.