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

Categorised in Channel 8 Archives, Metamorphosis 破茧而出.

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September 17, 2007

For the girl who started out in modeling running in a Singtel ad and whom you will soon see chasing down baddies as a crime-busting cop in new drama Metamorphosis, Rui En confesses to be a serious slacker during the 2.4km runs in school.

Text by Kwok Kar Peng
Photos by Bernice Hoh

The wheels of déjà vu are turning. Seven years ago, freshly out of junior college, Rui En received her first modeling job for a Singtel ad where you might remember her sprinting to top up her Singtel phone card so she could pick up a call from a cute hottie.

Now, numerous dramas later, Rui En is again running, this time for her new drama Metamorphosis where she hunts down law-breaking criminals. On the contrary to her sporty and gungho image, the 26-year-old singer-actress confessed to be a terrible student during the Physical Education (P.E.) classes.

“I always ‘siam’ (avoid) the 2.4 (km run)! Always!! I hate running! If I run, I have to force myself, so back in my school days, my friends and I were infamous for finding excuses not to do the 2.4 haha! We were really slackers when it came to P.E. until it got to a point where the P.E. teacher got so annoyed with us that we got a ticking-off in front of the whole school,” she chuckled.

Teacher would be sniggering in secret now as Rui En paid the price for her school day truancies during the filming of Metamorphosis: she pulled a muscle and went limping for about close to two weeks!

“And before filming started, I told the executive producer (EP) that I needed training because I had never done anything like this before, so the EP arranged two sessions with the martial arts choreographer for me. After the first three-hour session, I was aching so badly that I seriously couldn’t get up the next day! I had problems walking, but I was very lucky that I had those two lessons, so after that, I would ache a little bit but not as bad as the first time,” she winced in recollection.

The experience wasn’t all that bad; Rui En has now discovered something new about herself: she loves to fight! As she complains about how there wasn’t enough fight scenes in Metamorphosis to whet her appetite, she is also making plans to stay active to take up muay thai lessons.

“After filming Metamorphosis, I realized I like punching and kicking so much! It’s very stress-relieving! Maybe I’m just a violent person but I really like the fight scenes. I’m trying to keep active so that if I do take up the sport, I won’t, like, die of exhaustion.”

Metamorphosis begins tomorrow Sept 18 at 9pm on Channel 8! The drama also stars Chen Hanwei, Terence Cao, Thomas Ong, Yvonne Lim, Brandon Wong, Cavin Soh, Ng Hui, Julian Hee, Chen Guohua, Bryan Wang, Ix Shen and Chew Sin Huey.

Source: Channel 8 Archives

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13th September 2007

Page 108 – Metamorphosis (Debut!)

Source: 8 Days

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2007年9月12日

演出新剧【破茧而出】，林湘萍生不如死；芮恩搏命演出；陈汉玮看透曹国辉、芮恩真面目；沈倾掞开枪开上瘾；曹国辉被炸弹吓破胆……想知道更多？看进来！

邓永君 报道/录像/剪辑
邓永君 Bernice Hoh 摄影

【破茧而出】5分钟预告片将在9月15日（星期六），晚上8时55分，在8频道播出，想要抢先观赏精彩镜头？不要错过！

新剧【破茧而出】，堪称年度经典动作片。

昨天（9月11日）下午的记者会，我们访问了剧中要角：芮恩、林湘萍、陈汉玮、曹国辉以及沈倾掞；发现他们当中有人“生不如死”，有人“要生要死”，有人“把别人吓得要死”、有人“打死都不要……”

配合【破】剧的“神秘感”和“悬疑性”，我们先不告诉到底是谁说了什么？先发挥你的想象力，再点击看答案（录像）！

芮恩 最痛恨“脚滑”
记者会上，芮恩穿了一件紫色的裙子搭配黑色紧身裤袜，女人味十足；和她在剧中沉默干练的形象有天渊之别。

芮恩在剧里表现出色，她说自己的角色，只有一个字形容：冰！
除了配合角色把头发剪短、不苟言笑、拼命装酷之外，对于自己不堪的童年遭遇还常常表现出压抑挣扎；就算和影帝陈汉玮、老戏骨刘谦益对戏，也没有被比下去，监制杨锡彬对她的表现深表赞赏。

多场打斗戏，很多高难度的动作，芮恩都亲力亲为。打架、追赶、从高处跃下……她都能接受；唯一让她“快疯了”的竟然是在滑溜溜的地面上追赶跑。
为什么？因为她是个—“脚滑”的人！嘿嘿。详情？看录像。

Source: Channel 8 Archives

Categorised in Channel 8 Archives, Metamorphosis 破茧而出.

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19th July 2007

Page 16 星光 Starbuzz – 狠角色

幕后直击 Tv On Location – 冲! 冲! 冲!

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Source: I Weekly

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