Entering the entertainment industry at the age of 8 with her performance as Chung Chuk Hong (钟楚红) in Once a Thief, TVB’s fa dan Leila Tong has had very good results in both movies and TV series. Her appearances in Take My Word For it 2, Burning Flame, and Twin of Brothers, have caused a lot of mainland audiences to like this cute beauty. With the mainland productions of Liao Zhai and The Last Princess, she became more widely familiar with audiences in China. Coming to Shanghai to promote her series Bar Benders, she accepted an interview from QQ, let us hear what she had to say. Never setting a limit When Leila was younger, she already was in many Hong Kong movies and series, including acting as the younger version of Leslie Cheung in Bride with White hair. Although she’s a girl, her portrayal as a boy left many memories for the audience. Leila is now a TVB fa dan, although she is young, but having a lot of ‘acting’ years of experience, she is filled with the poise and posture of stars in the 60s. Whether in Life Made Simple or Liao Zhai we can all see her acting abilities. Her appearance in War and Destiny showed her versatility and her current series, The Last Princess, has received high ratings in many places. Towards choosing characters, Leila revealed that she likes the feeling of acting, and won’t be too picky. There’s a lot of people who think because I have a baby face that I won’t be able to act some parts, and I thought that too, but many people have told me that I have to breakthrough myself to let myself try new roles. Like this time in Bar Benders, I am actually a pretty greedy person. I like ancient and modern series, as long as its good, I’m up for a challenge. Learning a lot from other great artists Leila entered the industry at the age of 8. After giving a very good performance acting in Once a Thief, she continued to work with big stars such as Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung. Towards a young child star, it was a very good opportunity. Leila also said that working with these big stars influenced her a lot, giving her many unforgettable memories. They also set up examples for her own acting abilities, like when working with Leslie Cheung. He gave me a feeling that he shone, and did not have any of the attitudes some other stars had. I learned from him the most important point of being an actress, which is no matter what kind of artist you are you cannot be arrogant about it. This time working with Adam Cheung in Bar Benders is my second time working with him. He treats me very well; both times working with him I’ve acted as his daughter. The first time acting, I didn’t really understand what was going on, so I just went and acted with him. But he’s always treated me very well and takes care of me, like this time acting with him, he taught me like a daughter on how to act and how to act as a good lawyer. I’m very impressed that he can help us younger actors when he himself is so busy. Adam is a very hard working actor, and I learn a lot from him. New Series Taking up the challenge as Shang Guan Wan Er(上官婉儿) Just finished filming TVB series Greatness of a Hero (盛世人杰), Leila acts as one of the female Emperor’s (武则天) most important helpers Shang Guan Wan Er (上官婉儿), but often having good results acting in ancient series Leila said that there was a lot of challenge for this part. Because I don’t particularly like history, I had some knowledge of Wu Ze Tian, but I did not know a lot about Shang Guan Wan Er. So I went online to do some research as a last minute thing, I also went to buy a book about her to learn about the people during the time including the script. It was really hard, I often didn’t know what to do. I’m glad I’m done with the series; I can relax a little bit now and I hope I didn’t let the audiences down. The only thing that I was sad about was that although I am in the same series as my good friend Sonija, but we literally didn’t have any scenes together. If we did, then it was like only for a little bit. But I’m still very happy to be filming a series with her, I hope there will be chances in the future. Excited to work with Bobby Au Yeung Leila will work with another TVB series, which is A Pillowcase of Mystery 2. Although she wasn’t in the first one, Leila is very happy to be in the sequel. Of course the most exciting thing is to be able to finally work with Bobby Au. Because she’s never had a chance to work with Bobby, she felt very honored to be a part of the cast. She hopes not to let everyone down in the upcoming series. Source: QQ Translated by: mars123cc @ http://asianfanatics.net
Shes a good actress and has improved alot. I havnt seen her around lately, so its good to hear she is back filming some TVB series.
I was wondering was she the little girl in Greed of Man (Lau Ching Wan and Adam Cheng). She was the sister of Lau Ching Wan when they were young. Really look like her when she was like i think just 9-10 years old.... Imagine her service to TVB~!!!
lol she was in some Stephen Chow movie, i think its Soon Sei Cho, , and yer shes a good actress, but she cant sing , i dont really think she can get Lead actress tho, not Pro enough
