Ekin Cheng Nominated for "Best Leading Role" in Huo Yuan Jia Yesterday Ekin and Jordan as the stars of the new TV drama series Huo Yuan Jia received invitations to attend the International TV Drama festival In Rome. The festival will take place on July 4th 2007. Huo Yuan Jia would contend as the most important lengthy TV drama competition award category. The International festival includes categories for TV short and long dramas, and TV movies. Each category will establish the best work in that area. Also categories for best director, best male role and best female role. Huo Yuan Jia will compete with several hundred excellent TV dramas including those from the United States, Japan, France and the United Kingdom among the field. Huo Yuan Jia will be the only Mainland China drama, however the producers and the director are confident, however they also indicated that winning the prize was not their ultimate aim, but they will be able to represent China and that makes them feel extremely proud. It will allow more nations and people to understand our patriotic and national spirit. Ekin has also been nominated for best leading role in a lengthy TV drama. He plays Huo Yuan Jia, China's national hero. Ekin had indicated that when taking on this role the pressure had been great, as he had to breakthrough the Young and Dangerous legacy. he also had to study the martial arts necessary for the role for more than 6 months. He said, "I had to spend a lot of time exercising my body, because I don't have a martial art background. Then suddenly I am asked to play a martial arts master, of course, I cannot just randomly cope with this, other wise the audience will see this performance as false." Ekin also said that he had cherished this chance and threw himself body and soul into the role. He hoped that he would be able to show the essence of China's martial tradition, and open up for a new generation the martial tradition of China's heroic and national patriotism. The director said that he was pleased with Ekin's dedication and performance, and felt that Ekin was able to portray the feel of a martial arts master. His seriousness, and scholarly demeanor together with physical fitness completely suited the Huo Yuan Jia image. The director praised Ekin's skill, calling it a breakthrough. he said that in the beginning Ekin had not really understood Huo Yuan Jia, but he was able in the role to make a superb transformation, so they are hopeful that Ekin has a good chance of winning the best actor in a drama category. Even though many people criticized making a new edition of Hua Yuan Jia, the broadcast companies and foreign broadcast professionals have described it as very exciting. The story is faithful to the 1981 edition but it is not a copy, the new edition focuses more on relationships and is very touching. The original edition was unable to realize some of the ideas that modern movie making can now accomplish, to the producers hope that the audience will have an out of the ordinary experience. As much as possible however they didn't use special effects, using real weapons and live ammunition. While this made for a more authentic effect, some of the actors made mistakes along the way and sustained injuries. However everyone was very diligent and all along there were no complaints. Source: syd.com
Wow...he finally made it after so long. How come the drama wasn't being promoted? Don't remember hearing about it
Wonder when'll it come out.. seems nice! With Ekin and Jordan there! It's gotta have some funny scenes in it aince Jordan's in the cast haha!
