Lisa S.: It's a girl!

Hong Kong-based model Lisa S., wife to fellow celebrity Daniel Wu, announced news of her expectancy this week. Speaking to reporters at an event yesterday, she revealed they are looking forward to welcome a baby girl.

The 37-year-old, who is three months pregnant now, shared that Daniel is very excited about their bun in the oven. The mum-to-be even laughed at the thought of her daughter bringing home her boyfriend when she grows up and is worried that Daniel would become a jealous in-law or even exchange fists with the guy.

Although she is happy to be expecting a child, regardless of gender, the couple hopes to try for a son in future. She added, "I hope to teach her well and not be like me because I was really naughty when I was a kid."

Karen Mok's exes absent at wedding reception

The Hong Kong singer held another wedding bash in Hong Kong recently

Hong Kong singer Karen Mok and her German husband Johannes married in Florence, Italy on Oct 1.

On Dec 18, the couple hosted a wedding reception at Tai Tam Private Club in Hong Kong, where 300 relatives and friends were in attendance.

Daniel Wu feels its difficult to adapt to Louis Koo and Sean Lau's world due to having pale skin

Tuesday June 2, 2009 Hong Kong
Source: On.cc
Translated by: Matchbox @ http://mediachamber.net



Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Daniel Wu attended the press conference for "竊聽風雲" (Overheard). Louis and Sean Lau have collaborated together 8 times. Therefore they should have great cooperation. Louis smiled and said that the role he plays will be older than Sean. On the other hand, Sean stated that his role was more difficult to play than Louis's role. Daniel Wu was more worried that he couldn't adapt to their world due to having pale skin.

Sean Lau Unable to Attend 10th Annual New York Asian American Festival

Source: Takungpao
Credits: Jayne @ http://jaynestars.com



Recently, Sean Lau Ching Wan and Daniel Wu Yiu Cho have been filming new movie "Overheard" 《竊聽風雲》together. This is the first time that the two actors have worked together. Since Daniel greatly admires Sean as an actor, Daniel was at first nervous about the cooperation and uncertain whether the right chemistry will be produced. Fortunately, the collaboration has gone well thus far. Sean mentioned that he was impressed by Daniel’s performance in "One Night in Mongkok" 《旺角黑夜》.

Originally, Sean was scheduled to appear at the 10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival with Director Wai Ka Fai for the movie, "Written By" 《再生號》. However, at the end of the month, Sean will have to start shooting "Poker King" 《撲克王》. Since Sean will have to start training to improve his poker skills and coupled with the swine flu epidemic in the United States, Sean decided to stay in Hong Kong instead.

Sean regretted being unable to attend the 10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival. "Written By" was one of Sean’s recent favorite movies. In the movie, he acted as a blind judge, which required a lot of advance preparation for the role. Sean was deeply immersed in the character’s many emotional ups and downs, which made it difficult for him to withdraw himself from the role after shooting ending. Each day after shooting, he felt very tired. Sean believed the New York audience will recognize the depth of the character when they watch the movie.

To play the blind character, Sean learned Braille for two months. Sean laughed and said that he can not read Braille when he has his eyes open. However, when he closed his eyes and felt the raised characters, he was able to read the Braille text.

Daniel Wu Prepared to Marry Lisa S. Anytime

Daniel Wu Yiu Cho appeared at an event to promote the Alfa Romeo MiTo yesterday. Daniel currently drives an Alfa Romeo station wagon, but he was interested in buying the MiTo as well.

Did Daniel intend to purchase the MiTo for his girlfriend, Lisa S.? Daniel said, "I’ll see if it’s worthwhile to give." (What would make the gift worthwhile, if Lisa were willing to have his baby?) Daniel noted that if Lisa were to become pregnant, the couple would get married immediately.

Why was Daniel in such a sudden hurry to get married? He indicated that his elder sister was already a mother. Daniel’s father felt that it was also time for Daniel to start a family.

Earlier, Daniel’s family celebrated his father’s 80th birthday in Hawaii. Since his father is starting to pressure Daniel, he may get married in the next few years.

"I will let nature take its course. In order to earn additional money, work will still come first. When there is a baby in the future, then I can reduce my workload and watch the child grow up.”

Daniel will start filming Derek Yee’s "King of Double Tap" 《鎗王之王》. To prepare for the role, Daniel intends to gain 10 pounds and reach the weight goal of 175 pounds. He will also have to practice shooting with a gun.

Source: Mingpao
Credits: Jayne @ http://jaynestars.com

Daniel Wu in school with his niece and nephews

source: http://ent.QQ.com
translations:lindsay @ http://asianfanatics.net




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Not long ago, Daniel Wu and Shu Qi were photographed together

Yesterday, Daniel Wu visits the school of his auntie's 3 children, to participate in a fund-raising, in order to support the expansion of the school's building. He especially donated an oil painting to be auctioned. Daniel Wu has always been close with his nephews and niece, he was asked if he may consider having a baby with his girfriend LisaS. ? He promptly smiled: "Yes, before I turn 40 years-old , but no plans of marriage, if the only reason is because we had a child."

Speaking of which, earlier after being photographed with Shu Qi, and Kelly Lin dining out which caused to spread rumors , Daniel Wu said frankly, it did not affect his relationship with his girlfriend. He said, just like with Kelly Lin, his girlfriend knows Shu Qi for so long. He also said that despite of the financial crisis earlier, he isnt worried about it, but admits it affected his girlfriend's modelling job.

Daniel Wu: I am a citizen of the World!

Source: Shanghai Times
Translated by: lindsay @ asianfanatics.net

Ah... those ABC men...

In the Entertainment business, there is this special group of people, their origin is from the United States, but they have Chinese blood flowing from within. They are the so-called ABC (American Born Chinese) people, who, based on their appearances and cultural backgrounds, on their place of origin and the place they grew up in,would determine what they really are to people. But these qualities make them confused, suspicious, agitated, and even has given birth to the "status anxiety."

Daniel Wu:

He was born in San Francisco in the US, but from a Shanghainese family. His father is an engineer, and his mother is a University psychology professor, and he has two sisters. He holds a bachelor's degree, in Architecture from Ohio University, and he speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghai dialect, well.

The last time we chatted with Daniel Wu, was in last year's Venice Film Festival - he,Chang Chen, and Shu Qi attended the "Blood Brothers," premiere. "I grew up in the United States." Talking to a lot of topics, Daniel Wu used this sentence to begin with.

Daniel Wu , who's 34 years old, we can clearly find him, like any ABC men as different. He has the aesthetic standards of the Americans, that they think someone like him is not handsome. He said sometimes he couldnt tell to which country does he really belong to; he goes out with girlfriends who are also of mixed race since they are the only ones who understands him well; he could scold gossip magazines like in his blog, all for the sake of his own privacy,


Handsome guy? Americans dont think so.

"Shanghai is my hometown." Daniel Wu has told reporters.

Daniel Wu's parents are from Shanghai, both went to the United States, and met in New York, they started their family in San Francisco, his father was already 45 years old before he was born. Daniel Wu went to Shanghai for the first time 30 years ago! In 1978, he was only 4years old, along with his parents, he was brought back to Shanghai in the hope of settling in there, but they learned that the old family house has been occupied long by others.

Back to the United States, Daniel Wu attended school in the United States and speaks English,but goes home listening to his parents speak in Shanghai dialect. From a young age, he understood Chinese, but he cant read chinese. His parents hope for him to become a professional, they sent their son to learn about construction and architecture, but in 1997 he graduated from the university, placed the work of being an architect behind, instead went backpacking to the East to explore his roots. In Hong Kong, he didnt have that much money, so a friend asked him to become a model in pictures to make money, so there was when he started his career in the entertainment business.

Daniel Wu's first movie was "Love of the Beautiful Youth", he dazzles with those pair of glasses as Feng Delun. 10 years later, he is also following the path of that beautiful youth, Feng Delun. But in recent 2 years, he grew his beard, sometimes look sloppy in dressing up, but Daniel Wu also said that “I was already weary always playing the handsome guy”.

In fact, even in the United States, he does not cnsiders himself to be handsome, "in the United States, handsome is not what I look like! Handsome in the US is having blonde hair and blue eyes."


Identity? I am "global"

His Parents from an early age, always reminds Daniel Wu, "Remember, you are Chinese."

At 5years old, he would attend kung fu school, followed his master until he became a martial arts champion.He is also a favorite of the University Basketball team coaches. But when he came to Hong Kong, he often can not feel being "Chinese" , he felt perplexed about other people's anxiety. "When I'm in the United States, they do not think of me as an American; in Hong Kong, Hong Kong people feel that I am not chinese; so I would always tell myself, I am a citizen of the world!"

He knows Chinese Kung Fu, an ABC who speaks fluent English, so we all feel that he should go to Hollywood to make a career. He shook his head: "I may play good on those fields, but there are obstacles in Hollywood, it is actually an obstacle to have no distinct chinese accent. Hollywood likes Jackie Chan, Jet Li, because one of the reasons is that they speak English accent that Americans find very interesting." His mother tongue is authentic American English, in the film" Around the World in 80 days, " the director asked me not to talk in a "good American-English"accent. There, it is necessary to speak English with a distinct chinese accent ... ..."

As a result, Zhang Ziyi has also break into Hollywood, while alot of ABCs return to their Chinese origin to find a dream.

When Daniel Wu arrived in Hong Kong, he only knew 2 Cantonese words, hello, and a violent foul language. Hong Kong people regard him as a foreigner,when he dines out, they would immediately give him a knife and a fork, but when he would ask them and they would see him use chopsticks skillfully, people would sneer at him and be alarmed: “you are quite difficult! ”

He also had difficulty putting up with others, “when I started, I wasnt able to understand Hong Kong person's joke, likewise they didnt understand me. ” it took him several years to tap his good language talent , that was when he already shoot a Cantonese comedy,and he even delivers well in Feng Xiaogang's movie.

Actually, this new discovery of him is not new. He cooperated with the new film "Like A Dream" with Yuan Quan, and she revealed that when Daniel Wu encounters into lines which he cannot understand, he lets his assistant write it on Pinyin, then he tries to find out the meaning again and memorize it by heart.



On Women? Mixed-race Beauty for a better communication

Uses Chinese in the movie to talk about love diligently, but Daniel Wu may not privately like discussing his feelings in Chinese . All of his girlfriends are of, or almost of mix-races beautiful women. From MaggieQ to Lisa S, they are tall, long-legged, a match for him, including Kelly Lin whom he was recently rumored with, also has an ABC background. Daniel Wu said: “Only them would think that my jokes are very funny. ”

Daniel Wu's current girlfriend Lisa S has been known for many years, came after his former girlfriend MaggieQ, who was also known publicly. Lisa S's background couldnt be underestimated. She is the only daughter of a Las Vegas casino owner. A half year ago, Lisa came to Shanghai to attend the "Dance Forest Congress", the entire journey she only used English to reply. This girl is his number one fan,she even keeps his souvenirs privately and always acknowledges that her boyfriend is very good.

Lisa S travels crazily. Last year , the two went together to Africa and built a new house. “used cement blocks to serve as the walls,used the bushes as our roof,very similar to tribesmen's house......” Daniel Wu describes his girlfriend this way, they had this understanding to choose the hut as their place to stay during their trip to South Africa . Daniel was responsible for the fence to surround the hut, and they stock food responsibly, even decorated the inner wall of the hut and renovated the toilet.


“That room has hot water, but didntt have electricity. We generally go to sleep at 7:00 pm , get up early in the morning, go to the mountain for climbing, ride horses, took a walk ......” Daniel Wu happily recalls in which he added , “that was very unlike in the life in Hong Kong, with only me and my girlfriend, just the two of us."

Privacy? He will definitely stand up and fight for

Daniel Wu has been in Hong Kong for more than 10 years, has adapted to the traffic, to living in a small room, but also well-adapted to to the fast-paced way of living. But still he claims to have alot more of adapting to do, such as dealing with paparazzis. Two years ago, he was shot with his girlfriend's "home" , as opposed to silence, he let go of his fury in his Blog ,calling the gossip magazines to be rubbish.

For a while, he wanted to move back and live in Shanghai, a friend advised, you can not put this to an end, you shuldnt make yourself like some caged animal" In fact, when he was in Shanghai, the Mainland has become increasingly popular for videotaping celebrities on their private time. Last week, pictures of him was taken in some bars,and a newspaper press stated " Daniel Wu With Foreign Babes In Shanghai." he was dumbfounded and didnt know whether to laugh or to cry.

"After I was photographed surreptitiously by these people, I only knew then that Hong Kong does not have the privacy protection law. ” He urges Hong Kong Government to positively safeguard the privacy law. Little did we know that Daniel Wu actually even likes expressing his political view in his Blog, and encourages everyone to vote on the upcoming US presidential elections. “ When I was young, I didnt think politics was important, but when I grew up, I had understood that our life is closely-linked to politics . ” After all, he is an American.

"Sometimes, i thought what if i returned to the United States. In the United States, so many people there do not know me, you can find plenty of time to study , and I wouldnt have friends to ask me what movie am I going to make."

At 34 years old, Daniel Wu has been known to have plenty of moviefans who highly admires and praise him, but he has wanted to break out of the pure“attractive” image, and developed some dark-orientd roles. “I am very selfish, many of the things that I do are just to satisfy myself. I dont do this to ask for money or, for mostly, not to satisfy the fans."


Reporter's Notes

"Like a Dream": Daniel Wu turned to be a "sloppy ABC guy"


Recently, he made a movie in Shanghai, directed by Hong Kong's Luo Zhuoyao, and his partner is Yuan Quan

That day, when we saw Daniel Wu,he looks abit scary,his hair was dissheveled, he grew a beard, his extremities looked thin, wearing round eyeglasses, has put on a large T-shirt, carrying his laptop. Some female press complained on the scene that “why did you end up into a sloppy guy? ”

He cannot understand, a reporter explained: “why be a man who looks boring , does not like dressing up, and who always could not find a girlfriend? ”

“this image is the character I play in the movie. a chinese boy who grew up in the US , who makes a living as an IT. In fact, many American Chinese people has such character. ”

In the movie "Like A Dream",Daniel plays a character who's from New York, comes to Shanghai as an ABC. “This role , is a bit like my experiences in real life.I am also an ABC,but I am not that fussy in the movie, I dont take a bath."


Like Dream" actors are shooting in Shanghai basically at night around 11 pm until morning , then they stop working for the whole day, but sometimes they extends until 2 pm in the afternoon . Reporters were present on that day to visit the set , and do some photographs. The scene was also surrounded by alot of guests. After Shanghai shooting wraps up, the dramatic team will start to do their shoot in New York.

Miriam Would Pick Tony Leung Over Both Daniel and Ronald

Credits: Thousand Island Singapore Miriam Yeung News Blog
Thanks to Gaozai for translation!

Miriam was invited to Hunan TV to record a show. The host carried out three cardboards of Ronald Cheng, Daniel Wu and Tony Leung Chiu Wai and asked Miriam to pick one as her new boyfriend. Miriam picked Tony without hesitation.
She said, "I've cooperated with Daniel so many times, there's nothing new! Why not Ronald Cheng? I've picked him before, why pick him again?" Miriam thought Tony is different from the rest, "Of course Tony Leung! He has a wife, so I won't be able to get him!" She meant Tony has become unreachable hence is more precious than the other two.

The program played clips of Miriam from her singing competition until she became a heavenly queen in the music scene, and China fans' greetings. Miriam was touched and cried.
There was a fan who shouted "There's no need for you to reduce weight, you are prettier if you don't lose weight." Miriam laughed and said she does not lose weight for the sake of being pretty, but she has fallen in love with running.

Miriam has a Mandarin song in her new album "Wonder Miriam" to fulfill her desire to sing Mandarin songs. She said, "With Mandarin songs, I will be able to go to China and further places. I'll come to China more for promotion and meet more fans."

Next Golden Plum Awards Nominees

Worst Movie
-Ming Ming
-The Lady Iron Chef
-House of Mahjong
-Beauty And The Seven Beast
-Twins Mission

Worst Director
-Susie Au (Ming Ming)
-Chung Siu-Hung, Billy (The Lady Iron Chef)
-Marco Mak (House of Mahjong)
-Qing Zhong (Beauty And The Seven Beast)
-Biu Cheung Lee (Single Blog)

Worst Male Lead
-Dayo Wong (House of Mahjong)
-Hacken Lee (The Lady Iron Chef)
-Micheal Miu (Brothers)
-Jay Chou (Secret)
-Daniel Wu (Blood Brothers)

Worst Female Lead
-Natalie Meng Yao (Beauty And The Seven Beast)
-Rain Li (House of Mahjong)
-Rain Li (Single Blog)
-Charmaine Sheh (The Lady Iron Chef)
-Shu Qi (Blood Brothers)

Worst Partnership
-Micheal Miu & Eason Chan (Brothers)
-Louis Koo & Donnie Yen (Flash Point)
-Rain Li & Dayo Wong (House of Mahjong)
-Charmaine Sheh & Hacken Lee (The Lady Iron Chef)
-Natalie Meng Yao & The Seven Beast (Beauty And The Seven Beast)



http://www.atnext.com/jp/goldenplum/
Voting ends on the 11th of April 12pm hk time
Results will be revealed on the 13th of April

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On Friday night, Hong Kong film star Daniel Wu, attended the opening party for the Racks M.D.B. club at Xintiandi, Shanghai's nightlife center. First opened in Hong Kong, the pool players' club has attracted many celebrities.

A 34-year-old actor of Shanghai descent, Wu is on the investor's list for the new club. American born Wu went to explore the Hong Kong film industry in late 1990s and played minor roles at first but is now a headliner.Pooling Resources