Kate Pang 庞蕾馨 Singapore
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SINGAPORE: While most new actors and actresses start out with small supporting roles, Taiwan-born Singapore actress Kate Pang was immediately thrown into the deep end after joining MediaCorp last year.
She was cast as Lin Le, a mousy young woman who rebels against her over-protective mother (played by veteran actress Mimi Choo) to follow her dreams, in the currently airing romantic drama "A Tale of 2 Cities".
The thing is, Lin Le is one of the main characters in the drama, and Pang says playing her was a nail-biting experience.
"I only did television commercials when I was in Taiwan. The difference is really huge, because in commercials, the emotions that you are required to portray are limited.
"You are selling a product so you usually just need to look happy, compared to acting in a drama serial where you always have to have different expressions and play off your co-star," Pang said during the press lunch for "A Tale of 2 Cities".
"I felt a lot of pressure because this is my first role but it's a big role! Every day, I was on tenterhooks because I was really worried about not performing well."
Kindness of Strangers
Fortunately, she was working with a lot of veterans in "A Tale of 2 Cities" like Yao Wenlong (who plays her lover), Pierre Png and Mimi Choo, who were only too happy to lend her a helping hand.
"Sometimes, I don't even remember where the camera is pointing at. Luckily, the rest of the cast will worry about me and remind me about these things," said Pang with an embarrassed laugh, before going on to praise Choo for being "very kind and treating me like her own daughter".
"My senior colleagues take good care of me," she said.
She went on to reveal that Yao and Png had their own special way of welcoming her to the Caldecott acting fraternity and making her feel at home on the set.
"These two big brothers, they always play pranks and make fun of me!" Pang sighed as she pointed to her co-stars Png and Yao who were busy tucking into lunch.
"I remember we were shooting a scene where Pierre hurt his arm. We (I and Yao) were supposed to show concern towards him when he tried to pour us a drink with his injured arm.
"Yao decided to slip an egg [of all things] into my glass. So I couldn't drink from it at all and it just made me really want to laugh so badly! But I couldn't because it was supposed to be a really sombre scene and the camera was rolling!"
Sticking with it
Even with such supportive colleagues, Pang admitted that it still took her quite some time to get used to the tight shooting schedule of drama serials here.
"There are days when I am so tired, my eyes could barely stay open and my brain felt like it could not remember my lines," confided Pang.
But the ever-optimistic Pang sees the glass as half full.
"I like every day being very different, I like getting completely exhausted for a few days then getting some rest days. It really makes you appreciate those few off days you get.
"I like this job!"
"A Tale of 2 Cities" airs every weekday at 9pm on Channel 8.
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