[2025.04.09] FALA CHEN CHALLENGES JUMPING OFF A BUILDING AND CONTORTING HER BODY

Fala Chen climbs on top of the truck, bends over 180 degrees to squeeze into the gap and admits that fortunately she is limber enough
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Nick Cheung breaks down in tears when he watches the playback

Fala Chen challenges a highly difficult stunt
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The Nick Cheung Ka Fai directed and starred new film PEG O' MY HEART (SHOOK MJUNG) used the subject of nightmares to talk about karma and serve as a warning. In the film a loving couple Cheung Ka Fai and Fala Chen made a mistake in the stock market due to a moment of greed and ruined their lives. Earlier when the leads thanked the audiences, many viewers also said that they have gained a lot of understanding and gain through the movie. The scenes where Fala went to the prison to visit Ka Fai and jumped off the building left deep impressions with everyone. When Ka Fai watched this scene on the set during playback, he was also moved to tears; which moved Fala and the staff beside him as well.

PEG O' MY HEART has had a good word of mouth since its release, even made some viewers who were afraid of watching horror movies break through the psychological barrier. As Ka Fai said, the starting point of the movie itself was only to bring out the warning message of karma; not to scare everyone. Speaking of shooting the scene in which Fala visited Ka Fai in prison, as both the director and the actor Ka Fai had to deal with the emotions of Fala's role as well as his own performance. He went back and forth in front of and behind the camera from time to time, until the feeling was just right and he felt that the scene was completed. In the scene Fala saw Ka Fai survived the nightmare and even urged her to let go. At that moment she felt that her husband, who she has been hell and back together, has betrayed her. She was left so heartbroken that she could not help but smack the glass between them to vent her grief and anger. Ka Fai was even more heartbroken as he watched her. This scene touched Ka Fai's heart deeply, at the moment of playback for this scene, he could not help but start to sob. In terms of emotional interaction, the two were in full control. Ka Fai performed competently in different positions, and he was also very satisfied with this shoot.

In the scene that tensely followed in the film, Fala chose to commit suicide when she could not let go. The director arranged for Fala to end her life by jumping off the building. In the middle of the night, Fala fell from above into the narrow gap on the roof of the truck. She even had to lie down with a 180 degree bend on her waist and her head lowered, challenging highly difficult maneuvers. However behind the scene that ended her life, Fala proved herself with her body as she joked with the director that fortunately she was still limber enough to handle it. Before filming Rebecca Zhu Chenli has just finished work, but she also cheered her up when she learned that Fala was filming this scene.

The director, action director, and colleagues in the wire work team took sufficient safety measures for Fala's jump. Fala did some simple warm-up in advance, and then after learning about the location of the fall from the director she climbed on the roof of the car, and repeated the 180-degree waist bending action to squeeze into the narrow gap several times. Then combined with the expression of tragic death, she completed this terrifying shot after two or three takes. During the filming Fala watched the playback every time after completing a take, shooting her performance with her mobile phone to see if she needed any any improvement. Did she feel any discomfort after the waist bending performance? She smiled and said, "Luckily I had a few longans and half a bowl of congee before the shoot, only then did I have even more strength to bend my waist!" Although she bent for half a night, she and the director both were relieved to have finished this scene safely.

Stepping into its third week in release, PEG O' MY HEART has surpassed HK$ 8 million at the box office. THE LAST DANCE extended version opened last Friday but has yet to become a threat to PEG O' MY HEART. Reportedly the single day box office of PEG on April 5th and 6th were respectively over HK$ 800,000 and 650,000, holding off THE LAST DANCE extended version's over HK$ 700,000 and 600,000 and onto second place. In first place was the video game based A MINECRAFT MOVIE, which made over HK$ 1.9 million over two days. The global stock market disaster and the Heng Sang Index's 3000 point dive two days ago also affected the box office, as A MINECRAFT MOVIE fell from 1.9 million to 370,000 while PEG and LAST extended version made over 200,000.