Wednesday November 18, 2009 Hong Kong
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Translation: to jessie @ http://jessie1314.blogspot.com
Source : Mingpao
Every year before TVB Anniversary Awards, fighting for awards becomes the hot topic in town. Dinner treats for high level management and changing contracts with awards are no longer trendy. Now, due to the popularity of Beyond The Realm Of Conscience, they came out with a new idea to push “biological daughter” Tavia Yeung to strike back “outsider” Sheren Tang to climb up to the Best Actress throne. This is the first time Tavia enters the competition for this award. Before the airing of [Beyond], she became the hot topic of competitors for Best Actress which is fixed by company. No wonder she appeared calmly and expressed that she supports Sheren Tang!
Tavia Yeung said, “I feel strange too. Before the airing of [Beyond], there were peoples that said that I want to fight for Best Actress. I told them to watch my performance in the series first! Luckily I’m not affected by these topics. I treat myself as an outsider to view this competition. If you ask me I want to receive awards or not, of course I want! Everyone wants to win awards. However, I will not become excited due to their adulation and I will not be disappointed if I lose out. In my opinion, the condition to win awards is the ability being recognized and then only deserves to win.”
“Actually, I’m not prepared and do not have confidence enough to win Best Actress award. I can still make improvements in my acting skills. There are many great actors and actresses in [Beyond] and my performance is just average. It is still not good enough and I still have many spaces for improvements. I really do not have the desire feelings to win awards. Therefore, I will just treat myself as an outsider to watch the competition.”
Watch competition as an outsider, no wild schemes to win Best Actress award
Before Tavia win Best Actress Award, her standing position in annual TVB Lighting Ceremony has represented her triple jumping position. Last time, her position is at the 3rd row without being noticed from everyone. This year, her position is at the 1st row near to the centre of the stage. “Triple (“sam kap” in cantonese) jump? Haha! I’m not category C (also “sam kap” in Cantonese) actress! I’m using step by step method to increase position. I do not have the wild schemes to win awards but I have the enthusiasm to climb up. I can continue to make improvements. The standing position is considered as status in the eyes of media but I feel that even the position of some colleagues is at the back doesn’t mean that they are not hard working. They are also still improving and only the audiences haven’t realized it yet. It is a shallow thinking that standing position represents status. It is according to performance and achievements. This year I’m standing at the front row but maybe I will drop to the back row next year. Is that means that I do not put efforts in my job?”
Tavia Yeung who entered this industry for 10 years stood from the back row to the front row. What are her feelings? “When I stood at the back row, the colleagues would let me stood at a better position as I was not tall enough. From the last row to the front row, I’m still smiling and feel relaxed.”
The results for past 10 years – 60, 70%
Tavia Yeung is the one that works in silence after graduated from training class. She received “Most Improved Actress” in 2003 and received “Best Supporting Actress” last year based on her [Lo Lui] role in Moonlight Resonance. This year, she is fighting for Best Actress Award. As for her results in the past 10 years, she gave herself 60, 70% only. “I cannot give too high marks for myself as I will feel proud and no improvements to be made. For the sake of longer path for me to walk, I will put myself in a lower position. If I over-estimate myself, there will be no spaces for improvements for me.”
Zero rumours and reject sexiness to gain position
Tavia Yeung is a different person from others in entertainment circles. She has no gossips and rumours and sexiness to gain position is not related to her. “Rumours are indeed an easy and attractive ways to gain position. However, today I sit down here and accept your interview is because of my job and not for my rumours. I will not envy to be on newspaper because of rumours. When I read those rumours on the newspaper, I feel lucky that I’m not the main lead of the rumours. As for sexiness, I can accept sexiness that can give surprises to peoples. However, I will not use sexiness to express myself. Sexiness is a common practice. There are artistes that use sexiness to gain position. I believe that actually they want to wear more clothes too.”
Tavia Yeung who insisted on continuing in her own way, however admitted that she needs to compromise sometimes in order to survive in this field. “This is unavoidable. I think my persistence has already given way. This is because I’m an artiste. Other than handing out acting skills, our job is also to entertain audiences. I just have to compromise but hold tightly to my limits. Just like when I entered this industry, I rejected wearing sleeveless and low chest garments. Even my manager said that I was troublesome. Now I’m willing to wear back revealing garments. Is this improvement or compromise?”
Love relationship status is in the position of freedom style
Love relationship is not regular topic of Tavia Yeung. When asked about her love relationship status now, she is in confusion. “I reach 30 years old already. If my life is good, I would have become a mother now! However, the women in the new generation now can build career first and then only develop love relationship. My love relationship status is in the position of freedom style now. I’m not picky. The basic requirements for my other half are having a career, kind-hearted and love my mother. After marriage, we do not necessarily have to stay with my mother. We can be neighbours as we can buy another unit next door……”
There is a rumoured boyfriend of Tavia outside the field, Lam Wai Kit. After being rumoured for a few years, things became complicated. He was rumoured of having financial problems and also rumoured of having another girlfriend. What is her relationship with Lam Wai Kit? She said, “Good friends. We are maintaining good friend relationship. I don’t know our “good’ can maintain until when. Maybe one whole life?!” Tavia Yeung insisted that love relationship is not her selling point. When the time is suitable, she will announce it to everyone. She hopes that she can share the happiness and accept blessings from everyone.
Looks like Maggie Cheung Ho Yee when first entered this industry
Tavia Yeung graduated from TVB 13th Acting Training Class. She went through 2 years with portraying roles without names. That time, Tavia Yeung in the eyes of media was “a newcomer that looks like Maggie Cheung Ho Yee” but they couldn’t recall her name. After the efforts that Tavia put in these 10 years, she has her own personal styles now without depending on anybody. “After that, I collaborated with Maggie Cheung Ho Yee in “The Awakening Story”. We really looked alike that time. She treated me very well.”
Raymond Lam was also graduated from the same training class with Tavia. She said that Lam Fung also suffered before during the time portraying prison officer roles. In the beginning 2 years after entered this industry, Tavia tried out secretary, nun, receptionist and passerby roles. When Gallen Lo received Best Actor award, she was responsible to lead the honoured guest out. As the drama group did not have to pay money for using students from training class, therefore Tavia Yeung accepted many roles without names. She recalled that she enjoyed very much during the first 2 years after she entered this industry. This was because whole bunch of classmates went through everyday happily.
Tavia Yeung is the minority Fa Dan that came out from training class. How come that time joined training class and not beauty pageant? “I cannot wear swimming suit walk here and there on the stage! Only if I was arranged to enter top 3, if not I rather die to wear swimming suit to enter beauty pageant.”
Breathrough in villain role
[Beyond The Realm Of Conscience] brought [Beyond] poisons to audiences. They were chasing on the road of turning devil of Yiu Kam Ling. Golden sentence “I can beat you anytime that I like without picking day!” was created. Tavia Yeung really outstands as a villain role.
“I was longing to try on villain role. When I received [Beyond] script, I already started practicing in front of the mirror. Other than that, I tried to learn from Michelle Yim, Suzanna Kwan and Lau Xiao Qing on how to portray villain role. Their evilness developed from inside and especially the eyes expressions. I chose these types of evilness to develop and of course the external factors like makeup and costumes helped me to express my aggressiveness.” Tavia puts a lot of efforts in portraying Yiu Kam Ling’s role. Tavia said, “No matter the audiences detest me or not when the series airs, I only hope that there were logics in between the evilness and I expressed them naturally. I hope that I could portray Kam Ling’s role as all the evil deeds done were as it should be by rights. My colleagues thought that I had split up personality when they saw me. It means that this is a success.”
In the series, Tavia Yeung would fight against Charmaine Sheh. She did not want to say which scene are the most important parts and highlights of the series. This is because every scene of Tavia Yeung and Charmaine Sheh are important. “The trust that Sam Ho put on Kam Ling was returned with betray. They had deep friendship and the grudge was even deeper. Actually Kam Ling’s role is pitiful. She was lack of love since small so she was longing for love when she grew up. At the end, she saw that Sam Ho received all the love and respects. In order for self protect, she was forced to walk into an unreturned road.” “I hope that [Beyond] can give me a breakthrough in my career road. Producer will dare to choose me in trying out different types of roles. No matter are praises or criticisms from audiences, I will accept everything. Most important is they can view my performances. This is my biggest reward!”
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