18 February 2009 | 庄庆宁

从“芮恩”改回瑞恩，没有特别原因，只想做回自己。虽然瑞恩给人感觉是直来直往、有话就说，但却让人意外发现她其实还是有所保留的。

刚出道时，台湾公司为她取了艺名“芮恩”，她虽然不喜欢，却不说，也不曾过问为什么要取艺名；自己虽然比较擅长说英语，但是公司让她以华语歌出道，她也不曾表达过自己的意见。

很多艺人都会找人为他们算事业运，有必要的话就会取艺名。瑞恩当年也懵懵懂懂地让台湾公司为她取了艺名。

“我从来没有问过。我不懂他们是不是算出来。可是我不大相信这种算命的东西，或是用名字转运，所以自然比较好。（是不是有发生什么事或是什么人让你把名字换回本名？）我不知道怎么解释，但是一直觉得之前那个艺名不舒服就对了，不是最自然的我。没有发生什么东西，就是觉得很不舒服。”

“虽然比较习惯讲英语，但是没有考虑过录英文歌。一开始就唱华文歌，我也知道说在新加坡英文音乐市场也是比较小。（是因为商业考量？）也不是，只是一开始公司就是要我唱华文歌，所以就是这样，可是希望接下来可以录一两首。”

瑞恩形容自己的性格是让人“有距离感”的；这样的性格是有人酷爱、有人憎恨。有些经理人会特别包装艺人，掩饰他们比较不media-friendly的一面，但是Ken Lim却鼓励瑞恩展现最真实的自己。

“他从来没有反对过任何东西，从来没有说：可能我们不要这样，为了fans、或是为了public opinion。他真的给我勇气做回自己，因为真的做回自己是个需要勇气的事情，尤其在娱乐圈，大家会为你设定一个光环、一种形象。”

瑞恩说自己是多面的。一般艺人通常为了娱乐效果，他们需要在镜头前面带笑容，私底下却沉默寡言；瑞恩则在媒体和公共面前教冷酷，在家人和朋友面前反而比较开朗。新专辑《共和国》就是想把这两面的自己结合一体。

“相信每一个人都会发现在不一样的场面或是在不同人面前，会有不一样的你。其实专辑中的《穿反》也是有这个idea，就是带一个面具。《共和国》是希望把各种各样不一样的我变成一个共和国。穿反就是把那个面具脱下来。在朋友家人面前，我会比较开朗，但是面对观众可能我觉得没有必要装一个反应出来。”

一向强力掌控自己隐私权的瑞恩最近在社交网站Facebook上开了户口，原来只是配合杂志的活动而搞的，现在则纯属宣传工具，自己也没有另外开设一个私人户口。

“刚开始有点抗拒，但是后来觉得说为了报答我的fans，我就继续开这个account。因为有些东西要给他们updates，或是专辑的东西，可是当然我不会把一些私人或是personal的东西放上去啦。就把它当作是一个宣传管道。”

Source: Xin.sg

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Cover Page:

1. 瑞恩 雪地初体验 Pages 32-34.

2. 生日有[恩] Page 86.

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9 February 2009
MyPaper 我报
Page B13

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Elvin Ng talked about Rui En during their trip to Japan in this week’s issue of I-Weekly on page 35.

There is also a poster of TDC on page 81 as well.

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日期:06/02/2009 | 新闻来源:omy

瑞恩第二张专辑《共和国》的《青蛙》MV终于和大家见面了！

制作组为了突现歌中井底的意境，花了许多时间和心思将一个旧校舍的礼堂布置成枯井的场景。瑞恩也穿上充满束缚的上衣和色彩缤纷的蓬蓬裙，化身成歌中被束缚且忽略，却向往井外绚烂风光而不断跳跃的勇敢小青蛙。

为了呈现跳跃美感，完全投入拍摄工作的瑞恩在原地和弹簧跳垫反复弹跳。尽管在炎热且尘埃飞舞的场景内拍摄，敬业的瑞恩不但没喊累，反而越跳越有劲，为的就是能完整带出词中的精神。

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Source: Omy.sg

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Actors take off clothes for the love of a woman and dancing in drama

By Charlene Chua
February 06, 2009

WHEN it comes to stripping on TV dramas, it’s usually the babes who get the attention.

Think Fiona Xie, Joanne Peh and Jeanette Aw in The Champion and Beach.Ball.Babes.

But in the new Channel 8 series The Dream-catchers, it’s the guys who are taking off their clothes.

In the show, which began telecasting at 9pm yesterday, actors Shaun Chen, Elvin Ng and Nat Ho go topless in several scenes.

The Dream-catchers is about the lives, loves and careers of four engineers. It also stars Rui En, Tay Ping Hui, Jesseca Liu and Dawn Yeoh.

Shaun, 31, and Elvin, 29, play engineers who fall for Rui En’s character, who enjoys painting nudes.

So both of them strip off to become her models.

Said Rui En: ‘It’s a really refreshing idea to have the men stripping in a show, instead of women!’

In one scene, Shaun’s character steps up when the nude model doesn’t turn up, and he has to pose in a pair of black briefs in front of an art class.

Said Shaun: ‘I was very nervous. It was in front of the film crew and extras, and although the air conditioning was turned on, I still felt very warm and flushed.

‘Everyone was staring and I didn’t know what they were thinking!’

Elvin, on the other hand, had to strip down to his pants and there were fewer gawkers on set.

But unlike Shaun’s scene, which was shot indoors, his scene takes place in Japan, as Elvin’s character has to fly there to attend an engineering course.

While sight-seeing, Rui En’s character teasingly asks him if she could paint him in the nude, and he takes off his shirt in the open.

The scene was shot in the middle of winter – in -2° – with a blanket of snow. Said Elvin: ‘I was shivering a lot. But I wasn’t self-conscious at all. I just felt lucky that I didn’t have to jump into icy-cold water.’

Still, Shaun and Elvin’s experiences pale in comparison with what Nat had to go through.

The 25-year-old plays an aspiring dancer and in one scene, he has to do a ‘catwalk show’ to earn some quick cash for dance lessons.

The scene was shot in the afternoon on a raised stage in front of Novena Square, in full view of the public, and Nat was wearing only a pair of red briefs.

He said: ‘Let’s just say it was the longest day of my life! I was embarrassed as a lot of passers-by were gawking and taking videos with their phones.

‘As I only had underwear and boots on, I felt like a stripper!’

To shape up for their roles, the actors admitted they hit the gym and even popped pills.

Elvin, who used to model, said he’s always been a gym bunny and believes it has helped in developing his physique. He said: ‘Hitting the gym regularly helps a lot as you won’t be able to see results if you only train last minute.’

As for Shaun, his quest for perfect abdominals was a last-minute effort. He said with a chuckle: ‘I started going to the gym and playing badminton three times a week. At least I managed to get four ‘packs’ in the end!’

Nat, who didn’t have ‘the luxury of time to go to the gym’, relied on detox pills to make him look ‘less bloated’. He would even do push-up exercises on the set of the show so that he would ‘look toned’ when the filming began.

So of the three hunks, who has the best body?

Shaun and Nat immediately voted for Elvin, but when we asked him, he laughed it off.

Elvin said: ‘We all have different body types so you really can’t compare us like that.’

But the three actors all agreed on one thing – that their topless scenes were done tastefully and they wouldn’t mind doing it again.

This is the first time that Shaun is doing such a scene. Nat has gone topless once before, two years ago, in Honour And Passion but it was just a swimming scene with ‘no spectators present’.

Elvin confessed that he’s had a topless scene in almost every drama that he has filmed – he frolicked in a bathtub with Jesseca in Kinship and played beach volleyball with Joanne in A Life Of Hope.

Said Shaun: ‘As an actor, you do what you have to do. If there was a role in the future which required me to go completely nude, I would consider it if the role was worth it.’

Bigger selling point

Elvin however thinks that their scenes shouldn’t be such a big deal.

He said: ‘A single semi-nude woman on screen would ‘beat’ three semi-nude men on screen. The woman would definitely be a bigger selling point.’

So what did their family and friends think of their topless scenes?

Shaun, who is marrying actress Michelle Chia in May, confessed that his fiance was ‘very pleased’ when she saw the show’s trailer.

He said he wouldn’t mind if their roles were reversed either – that it was Michelle who had to appear in a sexy bikini on-screen. Said Shaun: ‘Michelle looks very good in a bikini. She has such a good figure. Not everyone can pull off bikinis, you know.’

Elvin, however, received startling reactions from his fans who saw the pictures of his scene on the series’ Facebook page. He said: ‘They posted comments on my Yahoo! group page, saying it was ‘cruel’ to make me strip in the cold.’

But the show’s producer, Yeo Saik Pin, believes that the topless scenes were all ‘essential for the development of the plot’.

‘Besides, all three of them (Shaun, Elvin and Nat) wanted to show off their bodies so I gave them the chance to do so!’

Source: The Electric New Paper

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