[News] Filming crying drama, scared will be like Sammi Cheng, Linda Chung returns to Canada to charge

2002, only 18 years old Linda Chung elected "Miss Chinese in Vancouver" Champion, following year to participate in the "Miss Chinese International in Hong Kong". And then three type of champion to join the entertainment industry. With the pure image, Linda constantly has had the opportunity to have a role to act. 2006 won the "Most Improved Female Artistes Award" highly touted.

2007, Linda with the drama "Heart of Greed - 溏心風暴" who acted as「常在心」character, 「crybaby 喊包」image was popular, back again with the "Moonlight Resonance - 家好月圓" who acted as「于素心」and last year's "Yes Sir, Sorry Sir - 點解阿Sir係阿Sir", made 'crybaby' image accepted by the public, even more it made "Yes Sir, Sorry Sir" drama become a hot candidate for "Best Actress".

Linda cry collapsed the whole city and successfully moved the audience. Supposed to make their own physical or mental harm, have been under pressure, she was suspected to be like Sammi Cheng who was suffering from depression. So to maintain herself, recently she decided to return home in Canada, rest for two months to fully re-charge.

Recently in her drama "Daddy Good Deeds - 當旺爸爸" Linda acts as a policewoman role for the first time, originally didn't love an action role herself, actually shouted filmed happily and relax. Also it's her to enter the industry for seven years, the second drama while shooting the edning, she cried as she didn't want to finish. One reason is that in the drama who plays my father 夏雨 Ha Yu, we had real father-daughter relationship.

Filming like real father-daughter relationship

During filming, every day when Ha Yu finishes he would personally drive his car and take Linda home. Which made her felt "family" warmth. "Usually when we're in the car we talk a lot of things, til the end of the last day we went quiet. I originally wanted to say: "Thanks dad for driving me everyday, in my heart I am really warm." I finally didn't say it, only said that this is your last day for driving me, he then said: Don't be silly! How is this the last time! I see him wait till I walk in the house then he goes. I immediatly thought back when I first joined the industry, dad always come and look for me, I send him to the airport those scenes. So when I returned home I immedialty cried! Really didn't want it to end. Filmed so many drama's, the first drama "Virtues of Harmony II - 皆大歡喜" will only didn't want to finish!"

Linda frankly glad that this drama she gets to play silly, respect family as "Ko Yu Chu", can bring a smile everyday to work "Always crying really makes yourself depression, do you know that filming a crying scene is injure/bad for your body! Every tears is really real tears, you have to make yourself sad first so that it will touch people. So when finished filming sad scenes, will need time to clear up the mood, but everytime I have no time to do this as it is hard. So when filming Daddy Good Deeds this sort of relaxing type, I can handle this and I feel relaxed to act, like if I was taking a break."

Don't want to use crybaby to view the viewers

Regarding to 'crybaby' image accepted by the public, Linda thinks that she is not'crybaby' type. "Actually which female role doesn't need to cry? I don't have to keep filming crying scenes, it's just because everyone focus on the crying area. I played Miss Koo who only cried in the last 3 scenes, but carry on crying will scare everyone to numbness, I don't want to use crybaby to view the viewers. It's like when I was small I liked to eat Big Mac, eating 6 a day would get bored, viewers will be the same. Hope the producers can try out to use different type of role, real me don't really like to cry! I'm also waiting for a chance to act evil, ugly or mental handicap role. I can picture myself already!

For Linda, the highest on record is in a year to film six drama's with long-term no rest. Body is beginning to send out signal, during the interview she also had a flu and high temperature which she had to lay-off two months of rest, to avoid suffer like Sammi Cheng and Maggie Cheung. "Apart from mind the body constitution is really poor, every month I catch a cold then eczema appaear that's when I know there's a signal. After I looked at Maggei Cheung and Sammi Cheng interview and thought these two had same symptom as me, then that's when I knew I had to take a break. Yes, in life there is many chances in front of you, but when you have not got a healthy body then it's useless."

Translated by: SUSIE-DANG-1988 @ AsianFanatics

Thoughts: Unlike before, Linda knows when she needs her break and won't try to push herself so hard as before because she understands her health is the most important :)

Haha I did not know that Linda was so close to Ha Yu :) He did praised Linda before when they were filming Moonlight Resonance and wishes that he could have a daughter as well-behaved as Linda. Very sweet ;)