[2024.11.29] LAWRENCE CHENG WANTS TICKET STUBS FOR HIS MOVIE AS BIRTHDAY PRESENTS

Amy Lo praises how friendly Jay Fung has been, and their collaboration has been harmonious
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Fish Liew takes time off from another movie to celebrate Lawrence Cheng's birthday.
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Lawrence Cheng and Fish Liew play father and daughter in the film

Jay Fung guesses that his kiss scene with Amy Lo is cut from the film because of his shy performance.
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Lawrence Cheng Tan Shui (Brother Tan), Jay Fung Won Him, Amy Lo Wai Man and Fish Liew Chi Yu and the dog actor in the film went to Tseung Kwan O the night before to attend the promotional event of the movie AN ABANDONED TEAM (DUT CHUNG SIN SUN), which coincided with Brother Tan's 69th birthday the night before. The whole place sang a birthday song and present a cake to him to celebrate. Brother Tan made a wish on the stage and felt inspired to say, "Making Hong Kong movies have never been easy, but the less easy it is the more people hope to get over this hardship, achieve their dreams. Today two directors (Lee Chi Wai and Ho Ying Ngai directed and wrote) have achieved their dreams and the film would be released. I hope you will support this film." Brother Tan also said that he wanted to be a little selfish with his birthday wish, this year he asked his former students to not take him to dinner or give gifts. Instead he asked then to buy tickets to watch the movie and give their opinions, then take a photo of the ticket stub and send it to him. "That would be the best gift. Making this movie in the summer a few years ago, I suffered a heat stroke."

Jay and Amy played a couple in the film. Making a movie for the first time, Jay had more than 10 takes for one scene. "Because the first scene was going to be filmed separately from Amy, it was relatively heavy. I was not familiar with Amy yet at that time, plus I was shy and nervous. We didn't communicate much, but I was grateful to Amy for bringing me into character." Amy joked that she was Jay's little elder in acting, and praised Jay for being very sweet and comfortable to work with. In the film she had many scenes with elder Brother Tan, and Amy admitted that she was so nervous and stressed.

When asked if Jay would make the jump from singing to acting, and enter the film industry? He said that if someone asked him to make a film, he would give it a try. However he would need to attend acting classes beforehand. Speaking of his kiss scene with Amy being cut, Jay laughed at himself. "Maybe I didn't do a good enough job." He also joked that he practice in front of the mirror and felt very natural, but perhaps he was not ready yet. When asked if his girlfriend knew about his kiss scene and was she jealous, he said, "She knows. She envies me so much because Amy is such a beautiful girl, but my girlfriend hasn't seen the movie yet. She will support it. Unfortunately she is not in Hong Kong now, so I can't introduce Amy to her yet."

Recently, a number of Hong Kong-made films have had an ideal box office. THE LAST DANCE has even set off a ticket grabbing boom. Although ABANDONED would be released at the same time as LAST, Brother Tan believed that this was a good influence because the audience will see the trailer of ABANDONED when they go to see LAST. He was happy to see that Hong Kong's large, medium and small films have all been produced at a high level, and he also believes that the Hong Kong film industry was thriving and promising. He said, "One film a year has a box office of HK$100 million, and each one has its own characteristics. There are also many young actors and directors, Hong Kong films definitely has hope. In addition filmmakers are gluttons for punishment; the more difficult it is, the more they wouldn't stop until they are done." Brother Tan did not shy away from saying that he had great hopes for the box office of ABANDONED, because the boss would have to make money before there would be the next one.

Playing Brother Tan's daughter in the film, Liew Chi Yu appeared with blue hair the night before. She said that she was making another movie, and specifically took time off to celebrate Brother Tan's birthday. The character in the new film liked anime and manga very much. She thanked each director for having imagination for her, and believed that she could play different roles. She revealed that years ago she auditioned for a Brother Tan directed film and in the end lost to Larine Tang Yueping. This time she was finally able to work with Brother Tan. Brother Tan laughed and said that the movie was THE YUPPIE FANTASIA 3 (SIU NAM YUN JAU GEI 3 JI NG GA YAU HEI). Brother Tan joked, "The Chinese title at first was NG GA YAU NUI 33D (I HAVE A 33D GIRL). (Did she lose due to her figure?) Because the Chinese title was too long, she lost from not paying attention to it."