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Happy Family’s Advertorial

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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

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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

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Starbuzz (Page 28)
过好年


TV (Page 70)
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)

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Watch it! (Pg 90)

Happy Family debut.


Synopses (Pg 106 – 107)

Categorised in 8 DAYS, Happy Family 过好年.

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“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

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新剧《过好年》演傻女入戏太深，瑞恩变得开朗！

性格一向酷酷的瑞恩，参与贺岁剧《过好年》演出，首当傻女“小冬”，求好心切的她，为了更能入戏，还在拍摄的3个月里，反复听符合人物性格的歌曲。 “我觉得，最能贴切代表‘小冬’的歌曲，就是光良的《童话》，我也会听一些比较卡通、轻松和愉快的歌，感染人物的开心和单纯。”

另外，瑞恩也特别在牛车水买了印有奥巴马头像的T恤，平时也一直穿着，希望能更贴近‘小冬’憨憨的本性。

发现瑞恩在受访时，话明显多了，态度也比以前温和。

瑞恩坦言，自己是个平时想得很多，思维复杂的人，跟“小冬”的性格完全180度相反，她也发觉自己在接演《过》之后，人变得比以前开心开朗，原来演这个戏还有疗效作用。

与父亲关系改善

以后会想多演这样的角色，让自己生活一直活泼、阳光起来吗？

瑞恩说：“我现在都已经29岁了，很难继续再演这类角色，就算演可能也没什么说服力吧。不过，经过这次演出，我对快乐角色却有了不同的看法，因为这样的角色确实很有感染力，会影响情绪！”

瑞恩在《过》里跟饰演养父的资深艺人陈澍承有不少对手戏，陈澍承在《过》里头饰演面恶心善的杂货店老板，因与孩子关系矛盾而将他们逐一赶出家门，最终在养女瑞恩的穿针引线下，一家团圆。

参与剧集演出后，她甚至开始反思与家人的关系，更坦承与一向有争拗的父亲，关系也改善不少。“我有被这个剧集感动到，也会去思考，一时间生气而与家人关系闹翻，值得吗？我很容易跟父母闹意见，尤其自己跟爸爸相近，他很固执，也会坚持己见，我们可以为了厨房水壶放哪里这种小事而吵架！”瑞恩说，拍了《过》之后，现在如果跟父母发脾气，最多冷战一会儿就没事。

与金沛晟私下零交流

瑞恩在《过》里和来自马来西亚，又在台湾打拼的金沛晟有不少对手戏。两人私底下各自为政，完全零交流，但一camera大家就可以立刻投入剧情角色中，瑞恩坦言很喜欢这样的合作关系。

两人私底下有没有可能成为朋友？

“不可能。我从来就不喜欢将事情复杂化，对我来说，演艺工作和私人生活是完全分开的，我完全没有圈内朋友，身边朋友都是学生时期，相交十几年的死党。我觉得，我的工作环境已经够复杂，凡事都要小心翼翼了，因此我只希望私生活能一切从简。”

深谙娱乐圈游戏规则的瑞恩觉得，如果要玩这个游戏，就彻底豁出去，若不像她，则选择完全置身事外。

“对我来说，我的事业重心一直是演技，不是宣传、不必新闻，因此也不想去做多余的东西。”瑞恩一向是异峰突起的艺人，得到观众爱、恨两极反应，不过她对于自己的定位却安然自信，心满意足。

“现在支持我的粉丝，很多是从我10年前出道时，就一直追随我的歌迷，哈哈！”

 
Source: omy.sg, 中国报

Categorised in Happy Family 过好年, Shin Min.

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Rui En will play a wife and mother for the first time
By Kwok Kar Peng

ONE MediaCorp Princess has willingly agreed to transform herself into an older woman and mother of a 7-year-old girl.
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DARK DRAMA: (Above) In her next project, Rui En’s character suffers a succession of tragedies. –TNP DESIGN: PRADIP KUMAR SIKDAR –TNP PICTURES: KELVIN CHNG

This makes Rui En the first among the Seven Princesses to leave the castle and move on to playing mature roles.

Yes, we know she is the cool, strong-willed and unconventional one among the Jeanette Aws, Joanne Pehs and Felicia Chins.

This career move will certainly differentiate her even more from her ‘royal’ peers, who are still playing young single girls.

We wondered if the decision was deliberate. Why take such a big leap forward, Rui En?

‘Why not?’ she shot back.

‘I think it’s good to have something fresh. It’s a huge risk, but without risks, you can’t move forward.’

Then she laughed and added, as she leaned forward to squeeze this reporter’s arm, ‘Eh, I’m 29 years old this year!’

Turning serious, the 1.69m-tall actress – whose previous roles in The Dream Catchers and My School Daze saw her tackling mostly strong, independent and highly educated single girls – said: ‘I can’t pretend to be a teenager or a teenybopper any more. I’m also not about to start lying about my age. As I grow up, the characters I take on have to grow up as well.’

And how they will grow.

Next project

In Rui En’s next project, tentatively titled I’m With You, she will play a wife and mother for the first time.

It is supposedly a very dark drama, where a succession of tragedies befalls her character Siqi – one of which is the sudden death of her husband (Chen Hanwei) in the first episode.

His spirit, however, lingers in the human world and pesters Adrian Pang’s character, the only person who can see and talk to him, to help his family get over his death.

You can expect some flutterings of romance between Rui En’s character and Adrian’s, but nothing too much for a recently-widowed woman.

Rui En will begin filming the drama later this month.

Although wading into new territory makes her jittery, and it is way out of her comfort zone, she says she is looking forward to it.

But if you have a mental picture of Rui En as a frumpy aunty in I’m With You, think again.

Her character Siqi is a fashion designer in her early 30s and a modern mother.

Rui En nevertheless cringed a little when she described what her alter ego will look like.

‘She’s quite feminine and always wears skirts. I also have to wear hair extensions to make my shoulder-length hair longer. It’s been a long time since I had that image,’ she said.

But isn’t she concerned that there’ll be no turning back to playing young-ish characters once she’s stepped into mature roles, currently hogged by 30-something actresses like Cynthia Koh and Ann Kok? (See report, right.)

Rui En pondered for a while before saying: ‘I’m honestly not worried about this yet. I hope that I perform sufficiently well to prove to people that I can play a role like Xiaodong and also a mother. I have to rely on myself to prove it.’

Xiaodong is her uneducated, simple-minded and happy-go-lucky character from the Channel 8 drama Happy Family, which premieres at 9pm on 19 Jan.

In that role, which was filmed from August to October last year, the usually aloof Rui En replaces her trademark don’t-mess-with-me attitude with a wide toothy grin.

Even her co-stars joked that she smiled more in those three months of filming Happy Family than she usually would in a year.

However, there’s one other role that this reporter hopes to see her take on, one that’s certainly out of her comfort zone.

How about playing a damsel in distress, I asked her. It is so unlike the self-reliant and strong actress.

‘Can I?’ she asked incredulously, breaking off into laughter.

‘Okay, that would be quite challenging. Hmm, I do have something in me that’s quite independent because that’s the way I grew up and lived my entire life.’

Take note, scriptwriters.

 
Source: The New Paper

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Remus’ comment on Rui En’s well-known abstinence from doing intimate scenes has apparently caused a rift between the two stars in an upcoming Ch 8 drama

9 January 2010
Text: Tan Thiam Peng
Photos: Sharon Toh and Tan Thiam Peng
Video: Alan Yong and Anna Lim

With a title like Happy Family, all does not seem particular joyful between the two leads of Channel 8’s upcoming Lunar New Year drama.

And it seems it all came down to a comment Malaysian actor Remus Kam made about local starlet Rui En’s well-known ascetical stance on doing intimate scenes.

The 33-year-old only learnt about it when he touched down in Singapore to film the show and previously said in an interview that it wasn’t a pity he could not kiss the actress.

“It is not a big deal because my lips have been kissed by many other female stars,” he nonchalantly declared back then.

At the drama’s press conference at Meritus Mandarin last Wednesday, Remus reiterated the very same phrase.

But this time, his co-star was seated next to him, and Rui-En’s expression gave away the fact that his words had put her nose out of joint.

When the 29-year-old actress was later asked to comment in a separate interview, it was obvious her feathers had been ruffled.

“He said wrongly,” was her short but cold reply through a forced smile.

After a couple more probing from journalists, her inner PR machine finally relented. She rolled her eyes, and uttered curtly, “Not like I’m very excited to kiss him. Got better choices.”

We figured she isn’t interested in kissing him anyway.

Throughout their solo interviews, both Rui-En and Remus gave contrary accounts of their filming experience together.

Remus cheekily revealed that he once faked that he was going to kiss Rui En during filming, and said that the actress was “shocked at that moment. She thought I was really going to kiss her.”

Rui En, on the other hand, countered his remark by stating that she wasn’t shocked at all. “No lah, that did not happen. We both knew it beforehand.”

Remus also admitted that they talked very little when the camera isn’t rolling but was also quick to correct himself (politically, that is) to dispel rumours that the two of them could not see eye-to-eye.

“What I meant was, the least kissed mouth is the most valuable, therefore mine is not,” he tried clarifying.

He even went as far to say that they had nothing to clear between each other.

Remus, who has starred in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore-Malaysia co-productions, is not new to controversy with his female counterparts. He was once linked romantically to sex icon and Taiwanese drama The Pawnshop No. 8’s co-star Tian Xin, who famously remarked his name is not fit to be placed beside hers.

We’re no prophets but we predict this might be the first and last time he and Caldecott Hill’s resident ice queen will star opposite each other.

In Happy Family, Rui En plays dimwitted Xiaodong, the foster granddaughter of Jianye (Chen Shucheng), who is estranged from his three children (Chen Tianwen, Darren Lim, Ann Kok). One day, a young Japanese man (Remus) appears, revealing himself to be the old man’s biological grandson. Together with Xiaodong, they set off to reunite the family.

The Lunar New Year serial comes after the success of Reunion Dinner a year ago. It also stars Pan Lingling and Cynthia Koh.

Happy Family debuts 19 Jan, 9pm on Channel 8. Visit happyfamily.mediacorptv.sg for more.

Source: MediaCorp Buzz | Yahoo! News

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