Leila Tong seeks new challenges, hopes to win awards Leila Tong is still young, but she’s already been in the industry for many years. To replace her “younger sister” image, Leila’s been working hard to change. She has been challenging herself to different characters, hoping to reach a new level in her career. Seeming to not care much about fame, Leila has also had a “hoping for awards” moment. “It’s like wanting to win a lottery!” Always giving audience a feeling that she is your younger sister, Leila has already grown up. Besides acting good and bad, annoying and spoiled characters, Leila recently has stepped up to another challenge. In her new movie she will be acting a delusional mother with a ten year old son and there will be a lot of “tears in the heart” personal scenes. When asked if changing her image was to help set the road for an award, Leila laughed and said “To tell you the truth, if you ask me if I like to receive awards, I would say yes. It’s just like when you were in school in good an achievement award or even if you win the lottery. But getting awards to me is just a bonus. I enjoy the feeling to get to film movies and series. My happiness will not be determined about whether or not I receive an award. Actually when there are times when friends that I have not seen for a long time send me texts to say that I did well, I already am really happy.” Most scared filming "Life Made Simple" (Ah Wong) Even after filming so many different characters, Leila laughed and said that she also had some nervous moments. “The most difficult character to act was An Kei in Life Made Simple. Her character…., but because earlier the younger sister parts I acted in were at most just spoiled, I have never tried a character that was both good and bad. The most unforgettable memory was the first day I started filming. The director made me change the ways I was to speak in all of the dialogue, so I became confused and really scared that I would do it badly. Although she still isn’t at a super popular status, but we can see that Leila’s acting is getting a lot more mature. Always striving to the best, Leila said that many times after work she would think about how she did for the day. There would be a lot of times when she realizes that she didn’t like what she did. “I would always be driving my car and blaming myself saying ‘why didn’t I do that in that scene?’ or ‘I should have done that’. But before finishing filming, some of the elders would come and tell me that it is normal. Because if there was a day that I was happy with my acting, then that meant I have no more room for improvement. I enjoy the feeling to know that I still need to improve”. The road to change When Leila first entered TVB, she was acting mostly as someone’s little sister. Like in The Greed of Man when she acted as the younger version of Wu Yung Hung, and in Racing Peak when she acted as the younger version of Ada Choi. She always gave people the feeling as your “girl next door”. It was only until in "Life Made Simple"when she acted as the greedy but kind hearted An Kei, did her acting become more noticed and started her road to change her image. She then performed in the stage production “Popcorn” in which she acted as an actress who would do anything to reach fame and fortune, the move "L for Love L for Lies" in which she acted as the girlfriend who did nothing but yell at her boyfriend. Although Leila has tried many different characters, but thankfully Leila has not changed her healthy image because of it. source: The Sun translation by: mars123cc @ http://asianfanatics.net
