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Rui En,
You are the reason why we are all going to smile like Ding Dong today.
Happy Happy Happy Birthday.
Thank you so much for appearing in our lives.
Remember to be happy, always.
Again, Happy Birthday. Here’s to many birthdays TOGETHER ahead.
Heartfelt Wishes
RBKD
More Than Just A Fan Club
29 January 2010.
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赞新搭档瑞恩皮肤好
在新戏中，彭耀顺饰演第6感特强的周文安，因为看得到鬼魂张扬（陈汉玮饰），而被迫帮忙他的家人，也对其妻子思琪（瑞恩饰）产生爱意。
虽然未曾与瑞恩合作，并觉得她很神秘，不知合作起来会如何，但彭耀顺大赞：“听说她是个可爱的女孩，而且皮肤很好”。
至于陈汉玮，彭耀顺和他去年底同时入围《亚洲电视大奖2009》最佳男主角表，最后由彭耀顺脱颖而出。但陈汉玮的演技有目共睹，彭耀顺说他很尊重对方，甚至因为必须和他演戏，而感到心悸。
此外，继在《Polo Boys》中饰演父子，彭耀顺和鹤天赐再度同台，但彭耀顺却成了眼中钉，因为鹤天赐戏中女友对彭耀顺产生好感。彭耀顺笑说，如果两人要争女人，他会让鹤天赐赢，因为他是美男子！
《我在你左右》从5月12日起，每逢星期一至五晚上9时，通过8频道播出。
Source: Xin.sg
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洪铭铧
No. 戏剧 | 平均人数
1. 主妇的假期 | 107万6000
2. 团圆饭 | 102万7000
3. 乒乓圆 | 101万6000
4. 书包太重 | 98万6000
5. 未来不是梦 | 96万4000
6. 企鹅爸爸 | 96万3000
7. 心花朵朵开II (最后27集) | 93万000
8. 双子星 | 91万6000
9. 当我们同在一起 (前24集) | 91万1000
10. 添丁发财 | 87万5000
委制剧《煮妇的假期》小兵立大功，拿下2009年新传媒戏剧收视冠军，而新传媒全年惟一代表作《当我们同在一起》却遭滑铁卢。
贺岁剧的档期一般不讨好，往年难得出头，但《团圆饭》去年一鸣惊人，陈汉玮、陈莉萍、王昱清、朱厚任、莫小玲等主角的精彩演绎，吸引102万7000人观看，坐亚望冠。
十大中除了首两部，排名第四的《书包太重》、第六的《企鹅爸爸》、第七的《心花朵朵开Ⅱ》、第十的《添丁发财》都是属于家庭伦理剧。
《当我们同在一起》遭滑铁卢
以年轻的四生四旦领衔主演、较具都会色彩的《未来不是梦》勉强打入五大，但号称重头强打的豪门恩怨剧《双子星》，排出14年后再度合作的两大阿姐郑惠玉和范文芳，加上阿哥李南星、郑斌辉，观众却未达百万，只排第八位，让人大跌眼镜，引发阿姐过气已非收视保证之论。
另一部号称《小娘惹》原班人马制作、演出的《当我们同在一起》播映至年底，超过大半，收视差强人意，几乎位居末席。以怀旧包装的作品，过去几乎全胜而归，《当》成了第一个滑铁卢意外，连抬出《小娘惹》招牌也无法热起来，究竟是创作或制作出问题？最受力捧的欧萱以量身定作角色重拳出击，全年惟一代表作竟遭大败，是否证明她缺乏观众缘，耐人寻味，值得分析研究。那些迫不及待封欧萱为阿姐的人，是否操之过急？
陈靓瑄突破形象挂帅的《添丁发财》也遭挫，或许是它的题材和前年的《奶爸百分百》太相近而被嫌弃。
看看十大排名，阿姐失利之后，吸引收视的是真正的实力老将，至于被视为接班主力的“公主们”，表现也都七零八落，随着谢宛谕的离开，名不符实的“公主”荣衔或许应该“入土为安”？
Source: Zaobao
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The 29-year-old actress will play a mother for the first time in upcoming drama I’m With You. Good thing she’s a-ok when it comes to kids
26 January 2010
Text: Jamie Yap | Photos: Jamie Yap | Video: Alan Yong
If you’ve bought into Rui En’s all-sunshine-no-dark-clouds chirpiness and outgoing character in current drama Happy Family — a far cry from the ice-cool and poised figure she cuts in person — then the local starlet’s next role shouldn’t take much to convince you likewise.
The wisp-thin actress, who turns 29 this Friday, is set to play a mother of a seven-year-old child in upcoming drama I’m With You — and a widowed, pregnant one at that, after onscreen hubby (played by Chen Hanwei) gets killed in an accident and becomes a ghost who bugs the only human (Adrian Pang) who can see him to help his family out.
It’s a role “totally different from what I did in Happy Family,” she admits, before adding that it also felt “very foreign and alien” to her at the beginning, especially with it being her virgin attempt at matronly personas.
Then again, there’s nothing like research to handle the apparent lack of maternal intuition.
She’s done all her homework to ensure she nails the part. “I read a lot of books and spoke to some mums about what’s it like to be a mother and being pregnant so I know more about the mannerism and emotions. Apart from these little details, the rest is up to me to immerse myself in the role to make sure I pull it off convincingly.”
More crucially, she’s not allergic to children, unlike the showbiz proverb of actors never working with kids or animals. In fact, this lass has been volunteering at a children’s home since last year. Never mind that it started out as a New Year’s resolution (for 2009).
“I promised myself that I’d some charity work because it’s something I think I should have done a while ago, but frankly I was lazy. Finally, last year, I volunteered at a kids’ home. I visited the kids and also took them on outings like to the beach and organise things like Christmas parties.”
Because she’s an only child in her family, she considered the time spent with the home’s kids, mostly of primary and secondary school-going age, to be “the first time I was really interacting with children. Before that I doubted my ability to get along with them, but after this I realize it just comes naturally.”
While we don’t doubt that her comfortableness around kiddies will come in handy as he plays mummy in the show, we’re curious as to how she feels about her first-ever collaboration with Adrian Pang, who winds up falling for her in the series. After all, the actor’s Mandarin-speaking anathema is just about as well-known as her own bête noire on filming intimate scenes.
“I can understand his apprehension and feelings,” she says good-naturedly. For my first few Chinese dramas, I started out from being a position where I’m not good with speaking Mandarin. I worked with Pierre Png before and these guys really memorise word for word, so I know it can be stressful. So I do sympathise and I’ll definitely help him out.”
Her co-star also made headlines of late when it was confirmed he would leave TV station MediaCorp (the date is set for this April) for a career in theatre, the medium with which he originally started in.
With their show seemingly being his last Chinese drama production before he bids adios to TV land, Rui En simply said, “If he thinks it’s the right thing to do, and now is the right time to go, I say go with what you feel. Then I support his decision.”
I’m With You debuts May 2010 on Ch 8.
Source: MediaCorp
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Greetings and salutations, fellow stargazers! This is May Seah, your Showbiz Sista. Today, TODAY ran a story about the wonderfully enigmatic Rui En. Here, thanks to Showbiz Sista’s new little helper, Kat, we provide you with undisputable video footage that the Rui En does, indeed, exist.
Okay, that was a funny (”That’s a matter of opinion!” cry dozens of humourless Showbiz Sista followers). Rui En shares with us what she thinks is funny; her thoughts on her role in Happy Family, in which she plays a cute lil’ Chinatown girl who lives with her adoptive grandfather; about her fans; and about being a serious actress.
Catch Happy Family on weeknights at 9pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
Source: TODAY
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Plus Pages 28, 30
THIS is going to be a very serious story. That’s because it’s all about Rui En, who is a very, very serious person.
Not elusive, but not approachable; not unfriendly, but not confiding, Rui En gives measured, intelligent and eloquent answers to every question. She doesn’t pander, doesn’t lean close to touch your arm, doesn’t crack jokes or even smile much, and doesn’t tell amusing anecdotes.
Despite having the label of “one of the seven princesses” foisted on her, everything about Rui En eschews the concept of “celebrity” and all the fussy fluff that comes with it.
So she’s gained a reputation for being cold (“She’s a nice person,”
said fellow “princess” Felicia Chin after a very long pause when
we asked her opinion of Rui En. “Yup. Very nice”).
And as to how refusing to do any intimate scenes will establish her as a serious actress — nobody really gets that. But personally, I like Rui En because I know we’ll probably never understand her still, deep waters.
She’s the inscrutable idol brooding inscrutably over the inscrutable river. Yet, she gives you glimpses of a very interesting person hidden under it all.
If you asked me to apply armchair psychology, I’d say Rui En
wants very much to be “normal”. And she would like the freedom
that any normal person has to put her all into a job she enjoys.
After all, there’s a lot of good stuff on her plate this year.
This week, she commences work on her next drama, I’m With You, in which she takes on the challenge of her first mature role as a
mother.
But it was the currently-airing Happy Family — in which she plays
the charmingly naive Xiaodong, a girl whose life revolves around
her adoptive grandfather and her Chinatown community — that rekindled her passion for acting.
“I made sure to go down to Chinatown and just walk around
and experience the atmosphere; experience the people. And I really
liked it. It’s a very warm place,” the 29-year-old actress said.
“The people are so much less detached than, for example, the
people in Shenton Way and Orchard Road, where everything is
quite cold.
“In my get-up (for filming), very few people recognised me. But
when I just said hello to a complete stranger, they would say hello back. If you did that in Orchard Road, people would like, call the police
or give you a strange look.”
Would it be accurate to say, then, that Rui En herself was like
Shenton Way and Chinatown — cold and business-like when it comes to
work, but warm and vibrant when it comes to living life?
“Absolutely,” she agreed.
Everyone’s saying that Happy Family is quite a departure from what you’ve been doing. What made you want to do it?
It’s completely different. It’s something that I hadn’t done even earlier in my career. It’s a very simple-minded, light-hearted, noncold,
non-serious kind of role. It’s much more comedic than anything I’ve ever done. It was very fresh, and I thought the script was written very well. The themes of family and how people give up their family ties
because of temper or ego—I thought it was very real. Even though it was so out of my comfort zone; even though it was quite a
challenge initially and I was quite worried about it; quite stressed out about it — for some reason, when I did that show, I actually
felt a rediscovery of my passion for acting.
Your next character on I’m With You is also completely different, right?
Exactly, like a 180-degree turn. She is a mother of a seven-year-old girl. First time I’m playing a mother; first time I’m playing part of a married couple. Where Happy Family is very light, the next one is very
dark, in the sense that a series of unfortunate events occurs. I was actually hoping in my heart that I would get the chance to
do a more mature role. I’m not 16 anymore. It’s time to step out of the comfort zone and try things that are completely new for me. I’m very thankful that they seem to be quite experimental; they seem to be taking more risks with me. Before this, I got a lot of cold, serious kinds of roles. I don’t think anybody would have thought that I would
be able to take on a role like Xiaodong. It’s not something that I would even expect to be cast in. When I got the script, I thought,
“Did they make a mistake?” (laughs)
Why do you think they’re taking risks with you?
I guess the producers are aware that even though I do have a strong image and a strong personality, I am very committed to putting
in a lot of work to making whatever role work. So it might be something very unusual, like a mother. I’ve had to go through friends to get someone to meet me with her daughter. I’m actually going to meet them later for dinner, just to observe how they interact with
each other. It may seem like work, but this pre-production research is actually a big part of why I enjoy this job. I actually really, really
like doing this research, because I mean, what other job entails this kind of trying to understand a stranger; trying to understand
a world that you don’t understand? I love it. I think people are really interesting and I’m very fascinated by different people.
What’s your impression of your own image?
Me? Er… More serious, more detached, more mature. I’m very serious about work; very serious about acting. It’s something that I’m slowly cultivating a very, very big passion for. I don’t like to get it mixed up
with being a celebrity. Being an actress and being a celebrity are two different things.
What do the other seven princesses think of you?
(laughs) I actually have no idea. Nobody’s criticised you? Not that I know. Not in public, lah! I think when you have made a decision to be quite separate about professional and personal life, to a point where maybe you might seem a bit detached from everything that’s going on, then naturally there will be some people who would feel that that’s being stuck-up. But that’s fine. It’s the price that you have to pay, I guess.
Surely you’re not also serious outside of work?
The funny thing about when you say outside of work — even when I’m not working, I try to do things that help me grow as a person and, as a result, as an actress.
So, you’re always very serious?
Depends, lah. Not when I watch Arrested Development. My idea of, like, the funniest thing is Arrested Development. When I watch it, I’m, like, laughing and the whole house can hear. It’s just very funny, in a
very odd way. I’m also a fan of The Office and Steve Carell (laughs).
Catch Happy Family on weekdays at 9pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
Source: TODAY
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1. Cover Story Pages 36 – 42:
绝境突破！
“如果自己没准备好，给你演一部商业巨片，自己又演不好，全世界都看到你的失败，不是更糟吗？”
“我向来不会看重成绩，比较着重过程。去年我回到基本而拍《过好年》让我找到很大的满足感，终于明白自己为何要当演员，以前自己会比较迷失，现在每天都期待开工。不过我不喜欢’突破’这个字眼。突破和做得好是两回事。”
2. Starbuzz Page 29
本月29日即将迈入29岁的瑞恩，提前一星期与粉丝会庆生。酷妹体恤粉丝，特别吩咐他们别花钱买礼物给她，粉丝们于是动手制作卡片和”纪事”簿给她。看偶像看得那么仔细投入，粉丝们应该觉得值得了！
3. TV Page 100
揭！09本地收市最强
8频道戏剧Top 10
1. 小娘惹 (最后4集)
2. 主妇的假期
3. 团圆饭
4. 乒乓圆
5. 书包太重
6. 未来不是梦
7. 企鹅爸爸
8. 心花朵朵开II (最后27集)
9. 双子星
10. 当我们同在一起 (前24集)
4. 电视MSN
Extract:
芭芭拉姬: 是咯，丁冬真的几可爱的，我看恩恩一直装酷妹都看到腻了，幸好这次她换pattern。
随便小姐: 恩恩和我一样嘛，酷久也闷，cute cute扮笨多好。
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