September 17, 2007

One thing rings true in both the entertainment scene and the mafia: a strong memorable name will get you far. For the stars of the new cop & thief drama Metamorphosis like Rui En, Yvonne Lim, Terence Cao and Thomas Ong, what alias would they adopt should they one day decide to switch industries?

Text by Kwok Kar Peng
Photos by Bernice Hoh

Rattlesnake… Red-haired Pig… Blood Rose… such fanciful aliases can only appear in either the crime section of our Chinese dailies or the colourful imagination of the writers and producers in MediaCorp Chinese Drama unit. Every gangster who hopes to make it big in the underworld for sure needs a stylo-mylo alias that will leave the enemies shaking in their pants; like, how big can you get if you go with Ah Boy or Xiao Gui? For the stars of new cop & thief drama Metamorphosis, which debuts tomorrow at 9pm, we ask them what nick they would give themselves should they one day decided to abandon the glitzy lights of showbiz for the dark world of organized crime…

Rui En – Rayzer

“I read a lot of comics in my childhood and I’m an X-Men fan; I used to collect the comics, so I think it’ll be something along those lines, like… Razor… spelt in a funky way, or Ice… something simple lah, not too try-hard-to-be-evil.”

And would ‘Razer’ like herself to be immortalized, almost like the new reality programme Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

“Hahaha! I saw the trailers! It’s quite funny… it’s very cute. They have capes and wear tights… Ei, I wouldn’t mind having a Superhero persona y’know… You know who I find very cool? Aeon Flux. I find the image very, very cool. If I ever get a role like that, I’ll train for six months, I promise!”

Source: Channel 8 Archives

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