[2024.12.15] PAPA PASSES HK$ 10 MILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE

Sean Lau appears on Carol Cheng's online program to discuss how he got into the business

PAPA exceeds HK$ 10 million at the box office. Sean Lau, Jo Koo and director Philip Yung will divide into teams for audience appreciation events in the next 3 days
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The Philip Yung Tsz Kwong directed, Sean Lau Ching Wan and Jo Koo (Kok Cho Lam) starred film PAPA was released for more than a week, and its box office has exceeded HK$ 10 million. Lau Ching Wan, Kok Cho Lam and the director have been shuttling in groups for 3 consecutive days since the day before yesterday (13th) to thank the audience in various districts. Lau Ching Wan appeared on Cheng Yui Ling's online program to promote the film, talked about the process of entering the industry, and clarified the relationship between him and his father one by one for the outside world due to misunderstandings.

Lau Ching Wan promoted his movie PAPA and recently appeared on Carol Cheng Yui Ling (Sister Do)'s online program "The Do Show". The two worked for TVB. Ching Wan said that 40 years ago he worked for the first time with Sister Do on WOMAN ON THE BEAT, Sister Do was already very popular at that time. "I interned at the training class, and I raised my hand to the director to play against Sister Do. I played a punk who taunted her, and I still remember the scene and the location."

Sister Do said that according to the information, Ching Wan was very rebellious when he was a child. His father did not dote on him, and he was lonely in childhood. Ching Wan explained that there were many misunderstandings in past interviews, and it was necessary to clarify. "My father was a blue-collar worker, Mama will bring work home to work on with a sewing machine. I am the middle child, between an older sister and a younger brother. We lived in an ordinary environment, and we weren't so poor that we couldn't eat or pay school fees."

Ching Wan said that his father used to be smacked him on the head when he spoke wrongly. His father was left-handed, but he used his right hand to write and use chopsticks. He mostly sat on his father's left side during meals, so he was hit on the head from time to time. "Papa really doted on Little Brother, but he doted on me too. When I was a child I didn't like to be held, but Little Brother was very clingy and Papa would hold him. I wasn't a very lonely person without fatherly love, but I was born like this and I often played that kind of roles. So people had the impression that I was miserable in childhood."

Ching Wan revealed that when he was 15 years old, he originally was to go to Canada to further his studies. During the physical examination, he was found to have tuberculosis and could not leave Hong Kong. He recovered after half a year of medical treatment, but he missed the opportunity to go to Canada. He worked as an office messenger after graduation. "At that time I often went to the Central Post Office to send letters. A postman once asked me why I didn't try the TVB artist training course, saying that Chow Yun Fat also delivered letters at the post office back then. Later my father also proposed that I apply for the artist training class, so I submitted the registration form. Later I really asked Chow Yun Fat, and he has indeed worked part-time at the Central Post Office."

Ching Wan increased his popularity with POLICE CADET and left the nest after filming THE GREED OF MAN, saying that it was the best end. Thinking back to why he left TVB, he did not know himself. "The artist is like a seasonal migratory bird. I didn't know anyone in the film industry at the time, but I felt it was time to leave". At that time no one asked him to make a film. Ching Wan went to Taiwan to film the drama "The Queen of A Generation Da Yuer", and Derek Yee Tung Sing was also an actor in the same drama. During the filming Yee often took him to the bar to share the idea of C'EST LA VIE, MON CHERI (SUN BUT LIU CHING). At that time, Ching Wan said to Yee Tung Sing that if he would go into production to include him. When the filming of C'EST started, Yee Tung Sing invited Ching Wan to be the leading actor and changed his path as an actor.