Blessing Ceremony for 'Background Master' TVB's new series "Background Master" held its blessing ceremony yesterday at TKO TVB City and cast members in attendance included Kenneth Ma, Leila Tong, Kate Tsui, Matthew Ko and Fiona Yuen. This is the first ancient drama for Matthew and Kate and Matthew feels that he will have to remember a lot of names and places so he is often forgetting his lines. This is the first time he will be wearing a hairpiece too, so asked if he is afraid this will lead his own hair to fall out, he says that originally they wanted to shave his hair off, but now he can settle for a wig. If he does lose his hair, then it will be big trouble. As they have not filmed ancient series before, Matthew and Kate are worried about NG's and Kenneth laughs: "We'll all NG together then." He says that there are a lot of officious lines in this show, so it is like reciting passages at school. Kenneth and Kate will be playing husband and wife, meeting again after their encounters on "La Femme Desperado". Asked if he is no longer worried about rumours because he has Margie Tsang, Kenneth smiles: "There is nothing to fear." He adds that he and Kate will have bed scenes, but they are just fighting there. Kate has a pair of twin sabres in the show and as they will be filming in High Definition, they have to use real weapons. She is not experienced, so she is afraid of being injured and as a result, she will be taking a few lessons before filming starts. She feels that location filming for ancient series is often in very tough surroundings and she is not used to wearing the flat shoes in these costumes. Talking of the death of former TVB executive Wong Ka Leung, Kate was very shocked by this and said that she did not meet him during her pageant, but she did see him at the anniversary event. As they are colleagues, then she is still saddened by the news. Source: Takungpao
