The stars of the upcoming Channel 8 series ‘Joys of Life’ share filming anecdotes and comment on their first collaboration
Upcoming star-studded mid-year blockbuster Joys of Life is set in the ’60s to ’70s, chronicling the lives of families living on Huaxiang Street. Yong Yong (Rui En) is brought up like a boy and easily handles all sorts of household chores. Mingxing (Alien Huang) portrays the starry-eyed friend of Yong Yong’s step-sister, Rou Rou (Cynthia Wang).
At the press conference, Taiwanese singer-actor Alien shared, ‘Before I came (to Singapore) to film, my fans painstakingly put together an analysis book for me. It has the background of all the key actors; who they are, what shows they’ve participated in, that kind of thing.’
When Alien and Rui En met xinmsn for an interview, they revealed that they had many scenes together, and that they had built up ‘very good’ rapport while filming.
The pair, who started off as singers, also collaborated on one of the title tracks, ‘Care’.
When asked to appraise each other’s singing ability, Alien immediately praised Rui En by saying, ‘I’ve always liked Rui En’s songs. Her voice has a lot of substance and feeling to it. I felt pretty excited working on this song together.’
He quipped that Rui En’s voice is more like a male’s, adding that ‘my key is really high, (when singing a duet) the male and female’s voice are supposed to be different, but we ended up singing at the same key!’
Alien also shared that the producer had to specially remind them not to sing with such a modern feel due to the drama’s time setting.
Rui En then commented that Alien, who did the recording first, ended up sounding like Taiwanese singer Fei Yu-Ching!
Alien retorted with a laugh, ‘Yes I did, (but that’s because I) followed instructions well!’
When asked to recall interesting incidents during filming, Rui En claimed that Alien ‘enjoys mimicking everyone, (but) he just doesn’t dare to mimic me in front of me!’ to which Alien hurriedly emphasized that he has never done so.
He clarified that his imitations of fellow crew members is to inject a bit of life when filming starts to take its toll on those present.
The two then joked that they enjoy mimicking Cynthia, immediately launching into their versions of her.
Taiwanese actress-singer Cynthia Wang’s return to our local television comes after being involved in another mega-series last year, Devotion.
When quizzed on her chemistry with Rui En during their scenes together, she shared that ‘everyone was fully immersed in their roles, up to the point where I felt really moved as well. In the show, I have a line that goes ‘The star and moon are always together; we are sisters who never will part.’ Even without practicing, this line came naturally.’
Cynthia added that she enjoyed filming and called Rui En ‘really adorable’, revealing that the she played host by bringing Cynthia and Alien out for meals often and also bringing goodies on set to share, including what she proclaimed to be ‘the best cheesecake I’ve ever had!’
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Joys of Life èŠ±æ ·äººé—´ debuts 26 June 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
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