Hail the Kings and Queens of Popularity here and watch them fight it out for Glory and Supremacy! Today we release the nomination list for the Online awards!
Under the Fave Female category, newbie Kimberly Chia is also nominated for her role in On The Fringe? Will this Singapore version of Justin Bieber (23K fans on Twitter and 36K fans on FB, don’t mess with her!) be able to muscle in on Rui En’s territory this year?
Rui En is nominated for 3 Online awards this year, 1 under Fave Female Character as Zhang Ya Le in Tale of 2 Cities,
1 Fave Onscreen Couple nominations with Elvin (Code of Honour),
and another Fave Onscreen Couple nomination with Pierre Png for The InLaws!
We fear that her dominance may be weakened by her well-deserved but multiple nominations (which will her fans vote for?).
The nominees for the professional awards were also released today, enabling us to total the number of nominations for each drama! Here’s the list of Top 5 dramas in terms of number of nominations…
On The Fringe and Devotion both tie at 12 nominations, leading the way!
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Best Drama, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress x 2, Young Talent Award, Best Screenplay, Best Drama Cameraman, Best Drama Editing, Favourite Male Character X 2, Favourite Female Character, Favourite On-screen Couple
FOUR dramas tie for the 4th spot with 7 nominations!
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Best Actress X 2, Best Newcomer, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Drama Cameraman, Favourite Female Character
Cooking, cleaning and acting, oh my!: Rui En is a little nervous about her role in “Joys of Life”.
On the outside, she was calm, relaxed and all smiles, during the commencement ceremony for the upcoming 60s period drama “Joys of Life” on Monday.
On the inside, Singapore actress Rui En said she is “really nervous” about playing Han Yong Yong in the show, a woman resigned to being mistreated by her foster father Han Jian Ren (Huang Wen Yong), and made to do all the cooking and housework in the household.
“This role is very not me, very unfamiliar and very strange,” said Rui En of her character.
“I have done some research. I have asked my grandma and my dad.
“The women of previous eras were actually very accepting of whatever life throws at them, not like now, where we try to change whatever we can change,” observed the actress.
“It’s so interesting, the way women then and women now are so different. It’s been a huge leap.”
“I feel it is very refreshing, but I am also quite nervous to do it because she is a character who is very good at housework and cooking, which are the two things that I am like the worst at! ”
“I am actually very stressed out!”
Cooking, cleaning and acting
Calling Rui En a kitchen novice would be an understatement.
“I can do instant noodles. I can add a fried egg. That’s it. I don’t even know how to cook rice!” she continued.
“When the EP (executive producer) was explaining [the character], I went ‘You have to know that I can’t cook’, then she just stared at me. She was quite shocked you know.”
“I said ‘I can’t even cook white rice’. She was like ‘You can at least boil water right?’ Then I said, ‘Ya, ya, I can boil water.’,” said Rui En with a chuckle.
“It was quite funny actually!”
Though she is not very handy around the kitchen, Rui En declared that she is doing everything in her power, to make sure she looks convincing as Han Yong Yong.
“I have been spending the last few weeks doing cooking crash courses, housework crash courses.
“I’ve had people teach me how people of the 60s would do the housework.
“It’s not like mop and broom you know, it’s like get down on your knees with a towel and wipe the floor that kind of thing,” said Rui En with a grimace.
“Housework is foreign to me. Housework of the 60s is even more foreign to me!”
Just who has been doing all the housework around her house all this time? And who cooks for her?
“So far, it has been taken care of. My whole life, I have been lucky enough to have it taken care of.
“I think I am quite representative of my generation,” said Rui En sheepishly, before revealing that she has a hired helper who does most of the housework for her nowadays.
“I think I will be a lot more ‘advanced’ in doing housework and cooking after this!”
Rui En (left) all dressed up for the 60s, at the commencement ceremony for “Joys of Life”.
Rui En (right) poses for a photo with her co-stars.
Joys of Life èŠ±æ ·äººé—´ debuts 26 June 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
Rouding up the activies for èŠ±æ ·äººé—´ this week was the 开镜 ceremony held on yesterday (Monday) on set! With it being Yuan Xiao 元宵节, we brought in 2 lions and a dragon to start this drama with a bang!
A massive hit in East Asia, but not so much on our shores?
If initial numbers are an indicator, Chinese palace drama Scarlet Heart, which has garnered buzz for reviving the career of former pop idol Nick Wu and making stars out of unknowns such as Cecilia Liu Shishi, isn’t really local audiences’ cup of tea.
Figures from international market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres show that the first nine episodes of the show attracted an average of just 349,000 viewers.
That figure is substantially lower than what the two MediaCorp series, Code of Honour and Kampong Ties – that preceded Scarlet Heart in the same timeslot – attracted in their respective first nine episodes.
Kampong Ties attracted an average of 566,000 viewers and Code of Honour snagged 469,000 viewers.
