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陈澍城在《过好年》里头饰演面恶心善杂货店老板，将子女逐一敢出家门，最终在养孙女瑞恩的穿针引线下，一家团圆。据说瑞恩跟陈澍城在戏里有不少感人的亲情好戏，值得期待。
过好年（首播）
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小冬（瑞恩饰）与收养她的爷爷建业（陈澍城饰）在牛车水一带开设售卖新年装饰品的小店，她单恋在母亲陈婶的内衣店里帮忙的豪杰，陈婶也很喜欢小冬，希望小冬能成为她的媳妇。年轻日本人野口成康（金沛晟饰）告诉建业自己是他的孙子，建业与小冬感错愕。
Source: Zaobao
Categorised in Happy Family 过好年, Zaobao.
Tough cookie Rui En turns all sunshine and rainbows in upcoming Channel 8 series “Happy Family”. And she tells us that fragrance played a part in her transformation.
By Han Wei Chou | Posted: 19 January 2010 0932 hrs
Rui-En plays Yang Xiaodong in the Channel 8 drama ‘Happy Family’.
SINGAPORE : The Rui En that we see in upcoming Channel 8 serial “Happy Family” is very different from the Rui En we know.
In “Happy Family” which airs on January 19 on Channel 8, Rui En plays an orphan Yang Xiaodong who helps an old man that adopted her, Dong Jian Ye (Chen Shu Cheng) to reunite him with his children, who he had driven away due to various incidents in the past.
Rui En’s screen persona Xiaodong is outgoing, optimistic and smiles a lot in the first half of the drama though she does quite a bit of crying in the second half. Xiaodong seems to be made out of sunshine and rainbows when compared with the tough, cool women Rui En had played in the past.
The 28-year-old actress said it took quite a bit of effort to play her character, who she described as “simple” and “a little bit like a little girl sometimes”, a far cry from the pensive, poised and composed person she is in real life.
Rui En, an avid perfume collector, wore perfume from her collection that she did not usually wear and listened to upbeat, happy music to get into character.
That’s not all. She changed the way she behaved and even the way she cried to be as convincing as possible.
“I changed the way I walked, the way I talked. I tried to change the way I cried because I felt this character would cry very directly, instead of the way maybe more mature people tend to fight it and hold it back,” she said. “I used a lot of things that I hope will add up to create a very real character.”
However, Rui En said she has returned to her same old self. While playing the cheerful Xiaodong did not change who she was, Rui En confided that participating in this production about family ties did cause her to think about her own relationship with her family.
Her parents separated when she was just 17. She now lives with her father, stepmother and grandmother.
“I was very touched by the story,” she said “It made me re-evaluate whether or not it was worth getting irritated with my family… is it worth it getting irritated over something small,” she said.
‘The Running Girl’ crosses the finish line
It has been a decade since Rui En burst onto the screen as ‘The Running Girl’ in a SingTel television advertisement in 2001.
She went on to appear in numerous dramas and was named one of the top ten most popular female artistes at the annual Star Awards from 2005 to 2009. She also released two music albums and even wrote all the lyrics for her songs in the second one.
That is quite a feat for a girl who said she entered showbiz because she was incredibly insecure and took on roles that disgusted herself in the early part of her career.
“It seems a lifetime away, even though it is just ten years, I feel like a completely different person [now] and I think I can say I have reached a point where I am at peace and very happy with the way I have chosen to conduct my life,” she said, adding that she had taken all the bad press about her ‘lack of PR’ and other misconceptions about her in her stride.
“I am at peace even with the misconceptions people have of me,” she said. “It is part and parcel of the job. It’s something that you have to accept if you are in this line.”
Looking ahead, Rui En said she has no intention of developing her career overseas yet and pointed out two things that she resolves to do in 2010.
“One is to spend more time with my family. Next is to be more prudent in terms of finance. Don’t spend so much and be a little more disciplined about saving”, she said.
Was it because she has a little too many bottles of perfume in her collection?
“Ya, ya, exactly,” she said with a wry smile.
Catch Rui En in “Happy Family” on Channel 8 on weekdays from January 19 at 9pm.
Source: channelnewsasia.com
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HAPPY FAMILY
Channel 8, 9pm (Debut)
Jian Ye and his adopted grand-child Xiao Dong work in Chinatown selling Chinese New Year items and antiques. Xiao Dong has a crush on Chen Shen’s son Hao Jie. Chen Shen also likes Xiao Dong and hopes that she will become her daughter-in-law.
Source: TODAY
Categorised in Happy Family 过好年, TODAY.
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After disappearing from local TV screens for half a year, MediaCorp artiste Rui En will be counting down to Chinese New Year with her new Channel 8 drama series, Happy Family. The soon-to-be-28 Rui En sheds her career woman image to portray Yang Xiao Dong, who co-owns a shop in Chinatown with her grandfather Dong Jianye (played by Chen Shu Cheng). Jianye, who’s 70 years old, is known to have no family members other than his adopted granddaughter Xiao Dong.
(All images courtesy of MediaCorp Channel 8 ) Rui En overturns her career woman image to portray “plain Jane” Xiao Dong.
Next to Xiao Dong’s business premises is a store that sells ladies’ garments and lingerie, where university graduate Chen Haojie (Shaun Chen) temporarily helps out at after being retrenched during the economic recession. Although Haojie is already attached to a girl he’s known even before he completed his tertiary education, Xiao Dong admires him with a teenager’s pure innocent heart.
Shaun Chen plays Haojie, a retrenched university graduate temporarily helping his uncle sell lingerie.
One day, a young Japanese man Noguchi Nariyasu (Remus Kam) drops by Xiao Dong’s shop, and explains that his father Dong Jinxing (Chen Tianwen) is Jianye’s son. Jianye chases him away immediately, while Xiao Dong keeps her confusion and suspicions within her. On his second visit, Nariyasu reveals that Jianye actually has 2 sons, Jinxing and Muxing (Darren Lim), as well as a daughter named Shuixing (Ann Kok).
In this family-focused drama series, it wasn’t just Rui En who had a makeover for the show, but MediaCorp actress Cynthia Koh also had to get a perm with huge curls and put on a fat suit under the harsh sun and humid weather for her role as Muxing’s wife, Mei-e.
Cynthia Koh also changes her appearance drastically for her role Mei-e in Happy Family.
The plot develops when Jianye confides in Xiao Dong and Nariyasu in hospital that he wants to see his family again and take a family portrait. The 2 main characters embark on a journey together to look for Jianye’s children and fulfill the old man’s wish.
Happy Family premieres next Tuesday and airs every Monday to Friday at 9pm on MediaCorp Channel 8.
Source: The UrbanWire
Categorised in UrbanWire.
With some crystal ball gazing into the new Tiger year, we round up the 10 promising stars who [we think] are poised for big success in 2010.
12 January 2010
By Joyce J. Chansingh
Rui En
She is one of the “reigning” seven princesses of Caldecott Hill and dubbed as the icy cool and ‘tough’ one for her nonconforming attitude. Since bursting onto the media scene in 2001 as the “running girl” in a Singtel Ad, Rui En has carved out a career as an actress and singer with various notable achievements. Like an aging wine with its ability to potentially improve its flavour and soften its structure, Rui En, once the young and full of angst individual, is today a matured [and happier] young woman who’s focused on her career. Armed with two breakthrough dramas in 2010, it’s hard to turn our back on the usually aloof actress. Taking on new roles as a ‘ding-dong-merrily-on-high’ cutesy simple girl in a new drama, “Happy Family” (debuts Jan 19th), as well as a wife and pregnant mother with a 7-year-old child in another new drama, “I’m with you” (debuts May 2010), we wonder if this could be a year of awakening for our resident ice queen? Hmm we smell a Top 10 Most Popular Star Award round the corner.
Source: MediaCorp Buzz
Categorised in MediaCorp Buzz.
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女人威
一个傻气小妹，一个爆炸头阿嫂，一个凶神恶皱日本女子。瑞恩，许美珍与潘玲玲在温馨家庭剧《过好年》中各献出第一次，成功抢镜。
笑忘歌
抛开个性形象，瑞恩变身活泼开朗傻大姐，是最大看头。
除了素颜上镜，瑞恩为了入戏，天天听卡通歌曲，将自己催眠进入快乐世界。
可爱角色小冬一登场，脸上永远挂着微笑，呵呵呵笑声常不绝于耳，这样的瑞恩，我们没看过。就连同剧演员都说，戏里公主是开心果，笑的次数比她之前一整年累积起来的还要多。
新传媒剧情
过好年 (Page 84 – 86)
Categorised in Happy Family 过好年, I-Weekly.
Watch it! (Pg 90)
Happy Family debut.
Synopses (Pg 106 – 107)
Categorised in 8 DAYS, Happy Family 过好年.
“但是，有时，有些艺人会视唱合或自己的状况，决定是否要唱现场，就连专业歌手也不例外。” 据了解，歌曲真的唱得好的新传媒艺人还包括：叶世品、黄文永、黄世南、瑞恩、郑斌辉、白薇秀、姚懿珊等。
Source: Shinmin
Categorised in Shin Min.
