[2025.03.05] SEAN LAU SAYS THAT THE COMPARISON IS HARD FOR THE BEST ACTOR RACE

Sean Lau praises his fellow Best Actor nominees as high quality

Karen Mok hopes to be able to make Kai Tak her Hong Kong concert stop
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Sean Lau has confidence in his Hong Kong Film Awards race
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Karen Mok and Sean Lau attend a watch brand event

Michael Hui displays Best Actor level acting in THE LAST DANCE

Dayo Wong is not nominated for Best Actor with THE LAST DANCE

Korean star CL comes to Hong Kong for the event
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Sean Lau Ching Wan, Karen Mok Man Wai and South Korean female singer CL attended the watch event yesterday and presided over the lion dance eye-dotting ceremony for the opening ceremony. Nominated for "Best Actor" at the two major film award ceremonies, Lau Ching Wan said that he must have confidence, but as a junior he did not dare to regard his elder Michael Hui Koon Man as a strong rival; Mok Man Wai revealed that she has applied for a performance venue at Kai Tak Sports Park.

Lau Ching Wan and Mok Man Wai and their other halves are both well-known loving couples in the circle, but when it came to watches, they had different interactions with their other halves. Ching Wan said that watches were timeless and always in vogue, so he would collect some different types of watches for various occasions. The first watch in the collection was a birthday gift given to him by his wife Amy Kwok Oi Ming many years ago. He said that the couple not only had couple watches, but also would not mind wearing couple clothes. He humorously said, "It's because we often have clashing colors when we choose clothes, and we can't always change out of them immediately. So I can only say that everyone really know what the other is thinking."

Nominated for "Best Actor" at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Asian Film Awards for his film PAPA, Ching Wan talked about his confidence in winning the award. He said with a smile, "Every time I would be asked if I have confidence. I have to have confidence, if you don't have confidence in yourself, how can you ask others to have confidence in you? However how to release the confidence requires thinking. I can't make people feel I am proud. If you don't win an award when asked about how you feel, how would you respond? So you have to have confidence in yourself no matter what the outcome is. However I don't want to describe the nominees as opponents, because everyone is made to sound like we are hostile. Everyone is a part of Hong Kong films, and there are actors from different countries in competition; so all the nominees are of a certain standard." Which movie would he pick? He said that he has watched some of the nominated films, and his favorite is PAPA, and he hoped that the "family of three" of PAPA would win awards together. This was the most neutral way to talk, because all filmmakers have done their best. Did he feel Michael Hui Koon Man was the biggest rival? "Hui Koon Man is a filmmaker I respect very much. He is also a comedy master. He has made many comedies that have achieved good results, and his performance in THE LAST DANCE (POR. DEI YUK) was very outstanding and a hit. However don't say the strongest opponent, it's hard for me to compare with him. He's a big big big senior in the film industry, and I'm a little little little junior."

Regarding Wong Tze Wah not being nominated for the "Best Actor" at the Hong Kong Film Awards, he said frankly, "It's a pity. He acted well, but this is a matter of choice. I believe he will definitely have a chance to be nominated again...... He is unprecedented. After so many years of making films, the sum (of my box office) is not as high as his. I am just joking, it is." He also revealed that he has not yet prepared a suit for the "Hong Kong Film Awards" and that his wife will work with him to prepare for it.