[2025.01.14] IAN CHAN IS PRAISED FOR HANDLING HIS EMOTIONS WELL

Ian Chan attends the audience appreciation event for his film LAST SONG FOR YOU, leading the group of Hellosss to grab tickets
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The Dior Cheng Yee Kin (Ekin), Ian Chan Cheuk Yin and Natalie Hsu (Hui Yan Yi) starred refreshing and innocent romance LAST SONG FOR YOU (GAU BIT CHUNG FUNG) would head straight to HK$ 9 million at the box office. The day before yesterday, film director Jill Leung Lai Yin led the three leads Ekin, Ian and Hui Yan Yi, as well as the musician who scored the film Chan Kwong Wing, to a cinema in Tsim Sha Tsui to thank the audience and share their production experience. Among them without much acting experience, Ian received the director's praises for handling an emotional scene accurately.

Playing the girl Ha Man Huen and Summer in the film, Hui Yan Yi is only 20 years old. The team praised her for being young, full of vitality, and extremely high energy. She often played with Ekin and danced during breaks, and kept asking questions to the introverted Ian. She was the source of joy on the set. Ian revealed that the most interesting part of filming was playing a student role, "Since I studied in a boys' school, I had no female classmates. It felt very special to play a classmate with Natalie in the film, like I got a chance to repeat at a co-educational school."

Director Leung Lai Yin specifically mentioned a more difficult to handle emotional scene in the movie, when the teenager So Sing Wa found out that his father had an extramarital affair. He was sad and helpless. The director praised Ian that in the face of experienced actor Tommy Chu Pak Him, he handled his emotions very well. "I asked him to only use his expressions to interpret this scene, without any superfluous dialogue. Ian appropriately interpreted the chaotic thoughts at the moment as a son, the uncertain feeling of whether he should step forward or retreat. The tears also flowed naturally, and it was done well."

In the film, Chan Kwong Wing chose one of Ekin's old songs MY SONG to connect the story of the teenager and the adult So Sing Wa, and also wrote a new song LAST SONG FOR YOU for the movie for Ekin and Ian. The director praised all of the singing scenes of the 3 actors were recorded live, so none of the live performances had post-production. "When the young So Sing Wa asks Ha Man Huen to guess the meaning of the melody, Ian even performed on the spot and got it in one take." In addition, speaking of the movie interlude TIDES, it turned out to be the first time Ian participated in the film music composition. He originally planned to compose a new melody, but he remembered that he had a melody in his demo library that matched the beach theme. He recommended it to the director, not expecting the director to adopt it as soon as he heard it. The songs in the movie caused heated discussions on the Internet, and many fans of Ekin and Ian beg for the release of the original soundtrack of the movie. At the audience appreciation shows viewers asked directly. The director did not eliminate this possibility but would leave the decision to the film company.