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4. 夜市人生
5. 爱

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All the acting honours at this year’s Star Awards went to first-time winners.

China-born star Qi Yuwu won Best Actor for playing a roguish lawyer in legal drama The Family Court and local girl Rui En took home the Best Actress trophy for her role of a grieving widow in With You.

While Best Actress Rui En, 30, appeared composed, her frequent small smiles clearly revealed how happy she was. She said: ” I’ve never taken anything for granted and I only want to act even though there were times where i would hear things like the media telling me that I’m not suited for this industry.”

She was referring to the fact that she has a reputation for not playing the public relations game and for being forthright and unconventional.

Her win crowned a triumphant 2010: She starred in three of last year’s top five dramas on Channel 8 – With You, Happy Family and Unriddle.

Her feminine side was on show with a Hermes black dress, a deviation from the usual menswear-inspired outfits she had worn in past years to the Star Awards.

“I feel most comfortable in men’s clothes but I was in a mood for a dress and I’m sure everyone is tired of me looking the same. Besides, I’ve had a lot of breakthroughs in the previous years, so I thought, why not?” She explained.

Source: The Straits Times

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1. Scene & Heard Page 20 & 24

And the Award goes to…

BEST ACTRESS
CHEN LIPING Unriddle
JEANETTE AW Breakout
ZHOU YING Breakout
JOANNE PEH Your Hand in Mine
RUI EN With You

MediaCorp Studios senior manager: “RUI EN shows her versatility and this show is so tough-there are so many crying scenes.”

Ch 8 senior exec: “ ZHOU YING, ‘cos unlike Jeanette Aw, no one hated her character. She’s the safest and most refreshing choice.”

Ch 8 drama producer: “ RUI EN has shown that she’s not only good at playing ‘cool’ characters- she’s just as adept at dramatic roles.”

Ch 8 actress: “ RUI EN. It was a very emotional role which required her to dig deep. An award-winning performance.”

8DAYS’ PICK!
We may be alone on this, but we think it’s finally JEANETTE AW’s year to take home the trophy. Hopefully, the judges schizophrenic psycho chicks with singsong voices as much as we do.

BEST DRAMA SERIAL
Breakout
New Beginnings
The Family Court
Unriddle
With you

MediaCorp Studios senior manager: “Unriddle” is not your typical Ch 8 drama and it had very good reviews. I’m also rooting for it ‘cos Paul Yuen (the show’s executive producer) is the cutest EP in MediaCorp.”

Ch 8 senior exec: “Breakout. It may not have rated well, but it was written by Ang Eng tee-his dramas have won this award every year, and 2011 will be no exception.”

Ch 8 drama producer: “With You. It’s very different ‘cos it deals with the afterlife in a very touching way. And it’s also the highest-rated show of the year.”

Ch 8 actress: “Unriddle. I applaud the crew for creating a cinematic feel to this drama-it’s a real breakthrough for local television.”

8DAYS’ PICK!
There’s no front-runner this year, so we’re going with Unriddle– it’s been a long time since Ch 8 produced a crime procedural and a good one at that.

2. Star Awards Advertisement Pages 62 – 65

3. Star Awards Show II Advertisement Page 117

4. TV Synopses

The In-Laws Pages 129-130

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Systema Charming Smile Award and Best Theme Song,
Best Music & Sound Design and Best Programme Promo

Best Editing and Favourite Female Character, Favourite Male Character and Best Screenplay

Best director and Best Variety Research Writer, Top Rated Drama Serial and Favourite On-screen Partners (Variety)

Favourite On-screen Couple (Drama) and Rocket Award, Best Drama Serial

Best Actress and Best Actor

Top 10 Female Artistes

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Apart from having to deal with a completely different character change, the local actress is also worried that TV audiences might be sick of a Rui En-Pierre Png onscreen pairing again

Text & Photos: Joanna Goh
Videos: Fiona Lin

No doubt an acting chameleon, Rui En has proven her fine acting chops over the past two years and is unafraid of moving on to uncharted territories, just like her newest challenge where she plays a blind girl in On The Fringe.

She’s been making waves on television for successfully stepping out of her tough-cookie shadow and taking up different roles which ranged from woebegone (With You), and girlie (A Tale of Two Cities) to meek and docile in the upcoming Ch8 drama, The In-Laws.

While she still picks the crime-fighting Xiao Man from Unriddle as her personal favourite, she admits that her grieving widow role in With You helped “change the audience’s perception of me” and provided her with the much-needed breakthrough.

Scoring a Best Actress nomination at this year’s Star Awards for With You, Rui En is also currently leading in online polls for Favourite Female Character for her role in Happy Family. Speaking of her two nominations, she has “no expectations” and even has a few “ongoing bets” with friends that she wouldn’t clinch the coveted award.

At the press conference of The In-Laws held at Klapsons Boutique Hotel yesterday noon, she dubbed her onscreen character, Wang Jia Zhen as her “first damsel in distress role”.

Soft-spoken, demure and passive are certainly not words one would use to describe this plucky actress who sports a distinctive tomboyish streak. As always, she would feel “pressured” by new roles though she felt that this has been absolutely refreshing for her.

“When characters are different from a person’s personality, you have to be careful to not slip back into your own self because who you are is how you act,” she admitted in an interview with xinmsn.

As if she was still in character, Rui En spoke in a soft voice and said, “I would use her eyes and try to make sure her eyes are very soft… I would also use my voice because my voice is naturally very deep, so I thought of making the voice for this character a little bit softer.”

While the main challenge posed by the new drama was the constant need to “focus 100%”, admittedly, Rui En is worried about being paired with Pierre Png in two consecutive drama series.

Although she’s “very worried that people are sick of seeing us together”, Rui En believes that their different characters in the recently-concluded A Tale of Two Cities and the new show have a “different feel”, and hopes to give viewers a refreshing take on their onscreen relationship this time round.

Apart from this being her first submissive role, this is also her first time “doing a show where my husband is more afraid of his mother than me”.

“My nickname for this family [in The In-Laws] is The Addams family. They are terrible and so crazy! (Laughs).”

And what if she ever encounters such demanding, meddlesome and devious in-laws?

“I would run away to India. Seriously, I would just run,” she jokingly remarked, bursting into fits of laughter at the thought of it.

It’s Rui En vs. ‘The Addams Family’.

Which is Rui En’s favourite character so far?

The In-Laws debuts on April 12 and will be aired on weekdays, Ch8, 9pm.

The online awards for Star Awards 2011 is powered by xinmsn. Vote for your favourite characters and onscreen couples here!

Source: Xinmsn

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1. Cover 创刊30年 典藏专号 瑞恩 & 欧萱 30不变

2. Voice 就要I自己 Page 8

自i自我.对i誓爱
i是我们，也是你们，即自己。爱别人，先得爱自己。然而，爱自己，其实比想象中困难。

对i誓爱，首先请艺人开始。

欧萱、瑞恩、黄俊雄、陈靓瑄，为i发挥创意，有趣的是，设计成品清晰凸显各自个性。

瑞恩随心随意有几分大剌剌，不会也不知画什么画，随笔火柴人反而微妙飘荡原始质朴创意feel。

3. Cover Story Pages 28-29, 36-40

瑞恩 变革语录

话虽如此，30岁，对一个女演员来说，原来是一件敏感的事。

经理人小姐M事前也很不安地问，可以不要太着重谈年龄吗?

通篇敏感数字反复出现，真的有人患上30敏感症，看了心跳不规律冒冷汗?

写下这篇文字的记者也踏入了30，当然没有像瑞恩一样：

Baby Fat 不见了，多了女人味，添了气势，赢了肯定。

不再是个单薄空洞，不知道自己要去哪里的愤怒女孩。

女人30

30岁，不算什么。

有人觉得这个数字很大，30岁就要思考，能做什么、快点做什么、必须做什么……对我来说，it’s just another day。我不喜欢庆祝生日，但我其实很高兴自己变老了，长大了，渐渐接受自己是个怎么样的人。

10几岁的时候，我曾经只想追求刺激的生活，很多事情发生，浪费了很多时间，我开始想脱离那样的生活，要为自己的人生找意义。

刚出道的时候，我不知道自己要什么，爱慕虚荣，一心只想要红，也尝试过很多不同的东西，虽然有后悔的事情，但一定要经过那些事，才会成长为现在这样的我吧。

I will never cry

我刚入行第一个杂志访问拍摄，负责帮我做造型的，也是今天的封面造型师。

其实我已经忘记他讲了什么，到底发生什么事，我当时只觉得他很Bitchy,哈哈，我那时还是兼职模特儿，就觉得这一行的人怎么这么恐怖，天啊。
(造型师Steve拍摄间笑谈两人第一次拍摄合作，她状态不佳，他觉得她态度有问题，要骂哭她，她还顶撞他：“I will never cry.”)

我不记得我怎么会讲这句话，哈哈，但我必须承认，那很像是我的风格!

Number 7

今年是我入行第10年，事业经历过上下，左右摇摆各种情况，事实上很多时候我都在谷底。

几年前7公主时代，我的排名永远最后一名。

很搞笑，不是number 6就是number 7，大家给我的评价永远都是：“她有距离感”、“她态度有问题”、“她的脸怎么这么臭”。

刚开始很hurt。相信我，那种感觉没有人喜欢。

好像一块肉，被大家评分，然后你得最后一名，感觉很rejected。

也就是那个时期，我决定不要再去在乎那些看法。因为这样，我的事业反而好像有转变了。

不一样的自己

以前也有圈内人当面告诉我，觉得我不行，个性形象符合不到要求。

好像大家都这样下了定论，开始时我也不相信自己可以做到什么。

我知道外界对一个艺人的预设范畴，我做不到大家期望的、一个女艺人该有的样子，所以不期望自己大红大紫，做自己喜欢的东西就好。

如果我的经历有什么message,就是你可以做一个不一样的自己。

收视女王

我不喜欢这个封号。

有身边人说：“哇，queen 咧。” 我就会说：“shut up 啦。”

一部戏，有很多人参与，因为我是女主角，所以就是我成功？

不可能，我也不相信。当然我也很希望是因为我，但事实不是这样的。

我只能尽力不要听，闭眼睛闭耳朵，我怕自己真的信以为真：因为我，这些戏才红。那下一部戏失败了，也全都是我的责任？

以后一定会有一部不行的作品。红的时候，我是女王。失败时，我是什么？

每当变幻时

每当有人告诉我一个好消息，我就会开始想到好消息背后的坏消息。

登上事业顶峰? 我偏向悲观，你相信了一样东西，如果它突然不见了，你会不知道怎么办好，我很怕这样的感觉。

尤其娱乐圈很难预料，好像7公主，突然就剩3个人，而且是在短短几年发生，谁预料得到?

这行业太脆弱，所以我一直提醒自己，今天的美好，可能隔天就不见了，我唯一能做的就是继续进步。我宁愿这样想。

我只要拼下去

我也不懂自己是怎么survive至今的。

以前一年产量最多1、2部戏，今年是第一次，一部接一部拍。希望这次也可以survive到。

我也担心啊，产量多质量差的问题，但现在只有拼下去。

这个圈子很残酷，女演员到一个年龄就会掉了，我一直有这样的想法。

就算现在做得很累、很累，都会告诉自己要拼下去，因为不是任何时候，你都有这些机会的。有一天什么光辉都会过去，要拼就趁现在。

很累时，我都这么告诉自己，这是我的energy来源。

大制作绝缘体

是啊，入行以来我完全没有参与过大制作。较红的作品像≪我在你左右≫都是没有什么宣传的。《最火搭档》只是宣传时被说成是大制作，其是它不是，哈。

大制作的问题是，大家期望很高，往往达成目标很困难。

我不相信一定要大制作才可以出位，一定要第一主角才会红。

你够好的话，演咖喱菲也会有人看到。我和Paul（与她合作最多次、《边缘父子》监制袁树伟）说过，如果有发挥，演配角我也愿意。像我现在拍摄中的《边缘父子》，我演盲女，文芳才是第一女主角，我只是客串。

咖喱菲

我很喜欢和监制袁树伟 合作，他给我100%空间自由，这对我很重要。

很多演员喜欢和他合作，他的工作环境，会让演员觉得很幸福快乐，哈哈。

我的人就是这样，如果你信任我，我会用超过100巴仙的努力加倍奉还。

他给我很大空间，就算我的演绎方式不是他想象中的样子，他还是让我去做，他真的给我很多帮助。他找我演《过好年》的小冬，我真的不了解他怎么会找我演这样的角色，和我形象差这么远。

但因为小冬，改变很多观众对我的印象。

以前大家觉得我只适合演酷酷的角色。

人家帮我，我会记住，我注重报恩。我愿意当他的咖喱菲。

女人味

我以前说过我不要穿裙，不要扮得很妩媚女性化。因为我平时很粗鲁，走路还会脚开开，所以很怕穿帮，哈。

拍了《乐在双城》，才发现，咦，原来效果还不错。我从来没想过自己可以这么女性化。通过工作，可以打开我的眼睛，以前认为自己做不到的事情，原来是可能行得通的。

现在在拍《麻婆斗妇》，是个苦命的媳妇，我刻意把她演得很胆小、弱懦， 声音也会提高，我从来没有演过这样委屈的角色，人家看我的脸也不觉得我是个受委屈的人，哈哈，很期待，不知道出街后大家的反应是什么?

Let it go

老了以后脾气真的有改变。

以前小时候对很多事情，不知道为什么很容易生气，现在回想觉得很无聊，很浪费身体最里面的energy。

现在学会Let it go, 累计太多，对自己是很不好的。

拍《乐在双城》时，我觉得我的角色雅乐很讨厌，刁蛮任性，一点也不可爱。

演一个不那么讨人喜欢的角色，其实我ok。但如果演员不喜欢自己的角色，就会很难投入。

我看雅乐，她是完全和我不一样的人，但是你必须要包容你的角色，包括她的弱点和不完美。我常常觉得人很复杂，很奇怪，人最有趣的地方，并非他的优点，而是他的缺点。

因为演戏，我开始学会把自己丢开，去了解别人，接受别人不完美的弱点。

以前我太在乎自己，现在慢慢学会丢开。这是我工作中好玩有趣的地方。

和i在一起

和i的一刻

应该是上一次去印尼的封面访问。我觉得是出道以来最接近我的访问。因为可能自己表达不好，或记者有自己的角度和议程，有些访问出街，不觉得表达了自己真正的想法。但如果有人问我读哪些访问可以了解我，我觉得是这个访问，还有ST的专访。

喜欢的i

虽然是新传媒旗下杂志,但对演员的评论还算公平。另外,就算我很低潮时,i还是很支持我,我真的很感激。你们应该是从我一开始,在我是nothing的时候,唯一一个很支持我的媒体。因为我不太聊私事,有些记者会排斥我,你不讲,我就不要写你。现在我的事业有了一点起色,你们还是和以前一样,我真的感激。可能是我一厢情愿? 哈。

不喜欢的i

从以前到现在，我一直觉得很奇怪，为什么你们要刊登剧情? 可以不要吗? 没有的话，会不会更好? 我觉得读了剧情，看戏就什么惊喜都没有了，很破坏! 尤其《最火搭档》时，我们就是靠悬疑性吸引观众，结果什么情节都登出来了!

希望自己改变的

希望自己变得稳重成熟一点，其实我有很多想改变的地方，每个人都有很多弱点。我不喜欢自己太敏感，我觉得自己很好笑，有时候别人讲某个字眼，也会让我忽然很sad,觉得被冒犯，很怪。

希望自己不变的

可以生存到现在的一股strength。我是个很固执的人，是我的缺点也是我的优点。

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之前热播的≪最火搭档≫首集便创下96万1000收视，而大结局播出后不久，更是有观众在网络上大赞，并强烈要求开拍续集。剧中，本地演员的精彩演出已经博得观众不少好评。

虽然男艺人也有不俗表现，本剧最抢眼的还是女刑警小曼和女线人正仪。两人”亦敌亦友”的矛盾意味着，她们必需互相帮助，但同时两人又心有怨恨。如此纠结的关系也是全剧的看点之一。

≪最2≫将如何同观众见面，暂时还是个迷，但如果你还没看≪最1≫，不妨在影碟中补过之前电视热播时所错过的精彩。(TS)

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1. Sunday Times (by The Straits Times) Lifestyle Cover

Breakout Stars

Elvin Ng starred in two of the top 10 Channel 8 dramas lst year while Rui En acted in three. Are they the new King and Queen of Caldecott Hill?

2. hot Pages 6 & 7

Top of the Hill

The recently released llist of Top 10 Channel 8 dramas shows there is a new crop of talent ready to take over Caldecott Hill.

By Rachael Boon

And the Top 10 Channel 8 dramas for 2010 are ….

Have a look at the list featured on these pages and many will wonder: Where are the names of Singapore TV’s enduring dynamic duo, Fann Wong and Zoe Tay?

The Queens of Caldecott Hill are nowhere to be seen in the line-up of those starring in the Top 10 list.

The new queen of the Hill is the versatile Rui En, 30, who acted in three dramas which are among the top five Channel 8 shows. She starred in With You, Happy Family and Unriddle.

As for Fann and Tay, they did not even act in any MediaCorp dramas last year to put them in contention. Fann has been busy filming overseas and Tay was pregnant.

The last blockbuster which both of them starred in, along with the two Ah Ge Li Nanxing and Tay Ping Hui, was 2009’s The Ultimatum, which received a lukewarm response. It was criticised for being too melodramatic.

Indeed, the top 10 list runs the gamut of content, from police dramas to stories about families and light-hearted comedy.

The top 10 shows are all MediaCorp’s productions except Taiwanese drama Love.

Modest productions such as With You a supernatural-themed tearjerker, New Beginnings, which dealt with the wedding and funeral industries, and the heart-warming Happy Family, trumped the blockbuster drama Breakout.

Indeed, with Channel 8’s top 10 dramas featuring a greater variety of actors and a wide range of drama genres, it is a sign that big names and blockbusters are not needed to lure viewers.

Things are certainly different from 10 years ago, says actress Cynthia Koh, who has been in the industry since 1992. She says viewers are constantly changing and looking for something more.

The Ah Ge and Ah Jie labels also no longer matter these days because teamwork is more important in producing good dramas, she says.

Rui En is clearly on a trajectory, with a Best Actress nomination for Star Awards 2011 in her bag for her role as a widow in With You, and having acted in three top-rated drama serials in a year.

She was one of MediaCorp’s Seven Princesses – the rest of whom were Jeanette Aw, Joanne Peh, Jesseca Liu, Felicia Chin, Fiona Xie and Dawn Yeoh.

The Seven Princesses was a term coined by the Chinese press in 2006, where the seven were said to be next in line to succeed Zoe and Fann.

Until last year, Rui En had never been a crowd favourite, but with other contenders such as Xie, Chin, Yeoh and Liu leaving MediaCorp, her name has come.

Life!’s Asian TV reviewer Foong Woei Wan says Rui En is finally getting the attention she deserves.

She says: “She doesn’t do the usual Channel 8 acting. In With You, she shows that you don’t have to shout, you can whisper and still hold viewers’ attention.”

Along with the new queen comes her royal partner, Elvin Ng, with two Best Actor nominates in a row.

Actor Alan Term, who has a decade of experience and appeared in various top shows last year, says he does see Ng and Rui En as the new generation of leads.

He says, “They are already leads now so I see them as the next pillars of MediaCorp as they are doing pretty well.”

What do you think of the new generation of stars at Caldecott Hill? Write to suntimes@sph.com.sg

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Ice queen turns nice queen

It has been a long climb to the summit, but Rui En, 30, is finally enjoying the view.

The actress, who has been in show business for more than a decade, looks set to be crowned the new queen of Caldecott Hill.

Recognition has finally come, thanks to her roles in three top-rated Channel 8 dramas – With You, Happy Family and Unriddle – and a Best Actress nomination for her role as a grieving widow in With You.

The fortunate series of events did not happen overnight for her. She is known as one of MediaCorp’s seven “princesses”, yet she says her has seen her career “progress in a backward manner”.

By this she explains that she is hardly on top of the popularity pack like the other “princesses” such as Jeanette Aw and Joanne Peh.

In an interview with LifeStyle, she says: “About what I achieved last year, in terms of ratings or anything else, I feel a lot of irony and a little bit of vindication.”

Explaining why, she says: “When this whole “seven princesses” thing was started by the Chinse press in 2006, the media would get people to compare the seven of us and there would be rankings and lists. The funny thing was that then, I was always No. 5 or No. 6.

“Just a few years ago, that was how the media and the public saw me. It was said that I was a bit too distant, the audience wouldn’t accept me, I was too aloof.”

But now, three of her shows have made it to the list of the top five Channel 8 dramas.

The supposed ice queen has since further melted viewers’ hearts with her role as the simle-minded and optimistic Xiaodong in Happy Family, which aired in January last year, She feels that it was that role which made viewers see that she could be more than an ice queen and credits this to the executive producer of Happy Family, Mr Paul Yuen, who cast her.

“For reasons that I don’t know, he decided to cast me as a girl who was simple minded to the point of being silly,” she says.

“The fact that he gave me the chance really changed viewers’ perception of me and I’m very grateful. It turned out to be one of the most comfortable roles I’ve ever played because Xiaodong was very happy and positive.”

Rui En’s hard work over the past decade has paid off. Loyal fans who have stuck with her are really being affected by her moving portrayals in tragic roles such as a widow in With You.

She says: “One auntie came up to me and said, ‘Watching your show makes me cry’. She paused and continued, ‘Actually thinking about it now, I’m going to cry already’. So I was like, ‘oh no, please don’t cry’.”

She adds: “I’m very grateful that viewers have matured to the point where they recognise you for what you are and what you stand for. The recognition I’ve got has proven that.”

Top 10 Channel 8 Drama Series in 2010

Source: The Sunday Times by The Straits Times

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