SINGAPORE – Simply three months after his launch from jail, actor Shane Pow is making a comeback on native tv, a lot to his personal shock.
The 30-year-old, who was sentenced to 5 weeks’ jail in July for his second drink-driving conviction, stated the supply to star within the My Star Bride telemovie got here as a shock, particularly as his contract with tv station Mediacorp was terminated in April over the scandal.
“After the incident occurred, I received a number of nasty feedback and DMs saying issues like, ‘Oh, that is it in your profession already’ and ‘You possibly can say goodbye to performing’.
“However there have been additionally lots of people who had been good to me,” he stated in an article on leisure portal 8days.sg on Wednesday (Nov 23), including that he was “tremendous confused” concerning the function.
The spin-off from the hit drama, which ended earlier this yr, is about to start out filming subsequent week with the unique solid, together with leads Xu Bin and Chantalle Ng, reuniting.
Pow performs a Vietnamese pc whiz who moved to the USA and who will come between the couple performed by Xu and Ng.
As such, a few quarter of his traces are in Vietnamese, which is one motive for his stress.
Ng set a excessive bar within the authentic drama, profitable reward for her portrayal of Vietnamese bride Fangcao.
With solely a short while to grasp the language, Pow has been taking a crash course in Vietnamese in addition to practising with language app Duolingo.
He confessed he has “zero information of Vietnamese phrases” apart from “banh mi” and “pho”, in addition to say “whats up” and “thanks”.
“I’m fairly nervous ‘cos that is one thing we have to be very delicate about, however I additionally really feel like it is going to be a terrific alternative as an actor and I need to take up this problem,” he stated. “I hope to do an excellent and convincing job that makes folks really feel like I attempted my finest.”