[2024.11.13] LOUIS CHEUNG CANNOT KEEP FROM LAUGHING DURING THE LUNAR NEW YEAR FILM SHOOT

Charlene Choi has been working nonstop, busy with the tour and the film

Louis Cheung constantly breaks into laughter and leads to bad takes, which even he feels bad about
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Louis Cheung and Ah Sa attend the Lunar New Year film production start worship ceremony. They would play husband and wife in the film.
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In MY BEST BET husband Louis Cheung tries to help his gambling addict wife Charlene Choi with quitting and comedy ensues

Kayan Ng works with Stanley Yau for the first time and discovers that he is very funny

Louis Koo is making the Lunar New Year film HIT N FUN

Director Patrick Kong takes a selfie with the MA JEUK NUI WONG JUI NAM JAI cast .
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Currently 3 Lunar New Year films are in production for 2025 releases, including the Louis Koo Tin Lok led HIT N RUN (LUM SI KUET DAU), the Wong Jing and Patrick Kong (Yip Lim Sum) co-produced and directed MAH JEUK NUI WONG JUI NAM JAI, and the Louis Cheung Kai Chung and Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin starred MY BEST BET (CHEUNG DOH BIT YANG). MY BEST BET earlier got into trouble for alleged trespassing the shop of Tsui Tin Yau's wife Olive, but the actors were not affected. Yesterday the shoot took place in Tseung Kwan O, Ah Sa and Cheung Kai Chung said that the trespassing storm has already come to an end. Everyone now is having a lot of fun in production and constantly has bad takes from not being able to keep from laughing.

The 3 Lunar New YEar films have different styles and subjects. The Wong Jing and Yip Lim Sum produced and directed MA JEUK NUI WONG JUI NAM JAI starred leads Kenneth Ma Kwok Ming and Samantha Ko Hoi Ning, with Carlos Chan Ka Lok, DaDa Chan Jing and Juliana Kwok Pui Man. Wong Jing hoped to pay homage to Mahjong, chasing guys and girls genres. As for the Koo Tin Lok, Tony Wu Tsz Tung, German Cheung Man Kit, Philip Ng Won Lung, Gigi Leung Wing Kei, Chrissie Chau Sau Na, Peter Chan Charm Man, Louise Wong Dan Nei and others starred HIT N FUN would be an action fcomedy, many leads would have scenes in the ring.

The Lunar New Year film MY BEST BET (CHEUNG DOH BIT SING) yesterday held a production start worship ceremony, actors Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin (Ah Sa), Louis Cheung Kai Chung, Stanley Yau Si Chun, Ng Ka Yan, Tommy Chu Pak Hong, Wu Fung, Renci Yeung Sze Wing, Alan Yeung Wai Lun and others attended. Cheung Kai Chung and Ah Sa went crazy for the comedy and often had bad takes; Ng Ka Yan admitted to be a newcomer and praised Stanley for having "contrast cuteness"; Stanley's performance tested his acting skills. When he watched Cheung Kai Chung's shoot, because of the hilarious bad take he laughed so hard he cried.

Cheung Kai Chung and Ah Sa would play husband and wife, but Ah Sa has become a gambling addict and had to quit. Ah Chung hated gambling the most, so there were many conflicts and cover-ups between husband and wife. The film would bring out the negatives of gambling, but actually everyone had a gambling mentality. For their dreams they would make a wager. Some in a difficult environment they would and take the gamble once for their families. During the filming of this Lunar New Year film, Ah Chung stated that he was quite happy and also hoped to bring joy to the audience. He also pointed out that many excellent comedic actors were in the film, so he often could not hold back laughing and had bad takes. "I am probably the one with the most bad takes, and for that I am sorry. Sometimes I get too crazy and have to force myself to think of something unhappy. Like while filming the funny bed scene, I have to talk to my own organs. Ah Sa lay next to me and had to turn her face to keep from laughing. Chu Pak Hong and I were bad together, during a play we already laughed right in front of the audience." Ah Sa pointed out that actually every actor has tried to keep from laughing during filming, and she was no exception. "If I have to say his lines I wouldn't be able to stop laughing either. Ah Chung's dialogue is long, he spoke for 5 minutes and I had to hold it in. By 5 minutes and 5 seconds I really wanted to laugh. If we had a bad take, he would have to talk again for 5 minutes. So I turned away to avoid the camera!"

The film earlier had an incident of trespassing the shop of Tsui Tin Yau's wife during the production. Later the shop and the film company each stood firmly and issued statements. Yesterday the shoot took place in Tseung Kwan O, and producer Ng Kin Hung announced in advance that he would not accept any media interviews. When asked whether the incident has been satisfactorily resolved, Ah Sa said that the matter has already passed and she did not want to respond again; Ah Chung pointed out that the incident has come to an end, whatever happened has been reviewed in order to be improved upon and make the movie better. Would the scenes shot that day truly not be used in the film? Ah Chung said, "We scrapped anything that was shot as other scenes would replace it!"

Recently Joey Yung Cho Yee lost her voice during a performance. Ah Sa bluntly said that she has visited Joey. "She lost her voice, and now she is better but she has not fully recovered. I feel bad for her when I see that she is going for acupuncture and carrying a big bag of medicine." Speaking of Ah Sa's 42nd birthday on the 22nd of this month, she said that she would have left for the United States and Canada for the Twins tour so she would probably spend it with fans. Later she remembered that she would be on the plane on her birthday. Some joked that she would spend her birthday with a flight attendant. She laughed and said, "How about a steward? However I have celebrated my birthday on a plane many times before, I got champagne, birthday cards, and even a seat upgrade!"

Stanley would play Ah Sa's brother and a couple with Kayan Ng in the film, but he would have a romantic rival in a Chinese-Korean hunk. In one scene he found that Kayan and his romantic rival were being ambiguous, he pretended to be casual on the surface but actually very heartbroken inside. The performance tested his acting skills. In addition earlier when he worked on a actual situation series for RTHK he had many crying spots, then he came to make the comedy. At first he might not be able to adjust. He also pointed out that Cheung Kai Chung was so mischievous, he had to try not laugh so hard that he cried. "It's really very rough, even he himself can't stop laughing. In one scene I laughed so hard I cried, my eyes were all red from keeping from laughing. So the process has been a lot of fun." As for his knack for comedy, he stated that he still needed to learn from the elders like Cheung Kai Chung.

Kayan Ng considered herself a newcomer and learned to feel the rhythm of comedy from the elders; but when she played against Yeung Wai Lun and Chu Pak Hong, she had to "pinch" her thigh many times to keep herself from laughing, avoid back takes and affect everyone. She also praised her co-star Stanley, whom she found to have quite a feel for comedy after working together despite his serious appearance. Stanley joked that he was a "imposter gentleman".