Myolie Wu Interviews Ron Ng

Sunday March 18, 2007 Hong Kong

Stepping out from behind worries him, Ron says goodbye to "King of broken"

Myolie competed in Miss Hong Kong, Ron was her dancer, the two of them started to know each other. Nowadays, Myolie has become TVB fadan, while Ron's career is flying high like a helicopter, but the true is that when he first converted from a dancer to an actor, he has gone through all the bad times as well, known as "King of broken lips."

My number was 14 in Miss Kong Kong Pageant, I was 19 years old, I have no clue what's going on, included the fact that my first press conference with reporters, I was wearing light blue shirt, jeans, with a clip on my hair. When I saw other people one after another, wearing make up, and set their hair style, I realized that I have made a mistake. I recall at the end, another girl made fun and said, "Miss Hong Kong's minimum age is 17, isn't it? How come a kid like you is here to compete with us?" Those were the days, with happy and funny memories, including the times together with Ron as well.

Everyone knows that Ron was a dancer before converted to an actor, but not a lot of people know that he was my dancing partner in the pageant, and I felt so lucky at that time, but he was the most handsome dancer of all, therefore, during this interview we have talked a lot about the past, not sure if Ron was trying to make me feel good, he said at that time, he "tip" me and Sonija in the final three, haha! He is quite good in recognizing beauty!



The truth is, his hair was very long in the past, and he wasn't as "naughty" or as talkative, but we still make fun of him now, as Ron always have trouble speaking, pauses between words, not really sure what he is talking about. However, when off camera, he is always full of energy, a prankster, making jokes. He is probably the funniest one in S4, therefore, the audience always see only the cool, quite side of Ron, that's not him at all!

Ron said that he has never thought of being on screen, at that time, he has chosen to become a dancer, rather than an actor. Dancer isn't an easy choice for him, needs to work five days a week, half day on Saturday, when there are important shows or events, anniversary, etc, don't even have to think of taking days off. The salary is good to cover meals and travel expense, difficult to save enough and buy clothes, and it's a higher pay than being in acting already, by several thousand dollars.



I remembered at the end of a particular show, I saw Ron being thrown up the air by other dancers, and went on to say goodbyes to each person, with water in his eyes, I realized that it was his last night being a dancer, because he has converted to become an actor. I wasn't surprised at that time, because I knew he has the talent and quality, it's like something I knew would happen.

The first job for Ron as an actor was a TV movie, Unbearable heights, and his role was Passenger A, sitting behind Almen Wong and Kenny Wong, holding a boat in his hand, talking to Passenger B, there was zero lines for him to read, at the very least, it was the beginning for Ron to understand what filming is all about. Second job for him was in Burning Flame 2, his role was Fireman B, and was in charge of "second line" of duty, meaning "King of Broken Lips" which also means the roles for people who say "yes, yes" or "ok, ok"!

Ron's third job, finally, there are lines for him to read, in Golden Faith, as a cop, there was a scene where he needs to interrogate Gallen Lo. Ron said that he was scared for a few days, because at that time, he has zero experience, everything he knew was in books, in text, all in theories. The scene was the last one for the day, and everyone was waiting to get off work and head home, the pressure was on. The more pressure, the more NGs as a result, I needed a break to cool down with a drink of water. At that moment, Gallen explained to him, the first thing about acting is to understand the lines, digest them, and speak out loud in words. After some pointers from Gallen, needed only two NGs to complete the scene. Besides Gallen, there were also Francis Ng from Triumph in the Skies, Damien Lau in Find the Light, they have all taught Ron a lot about acting.




I found out during the interview, that Louis Koo was the reason Ron has become an actor! However, Ron doesn't like others to start this topic up, because he doesn't want others to think that he is promoting himself, and worries that Louis will not like that, because Louis has always been the quiet type. They are not the kind of friends who go out and have meals all the time, it's only the media who thinks that. Ron admits that Louis is very nice to him, and will ask about how he is doing recently every now and then. The reason that two of them aren't the best of friends for each other, is probably because they are both the quiet type, with few words, when they meet, there aren't many words coming out, hence, not much conversations. If you have to talk about best friends, then Ron will for sure mention Raymond. The two of them despite having totally opposite characters, one being a prince, without humors; while the other is naughty and a prankster, but the two are the best of friends.

It was a coincident that brought the two of them together. At the time when both are them are in training classes, artists were learning how to kiss on the dance floor, while dancers are learning how to "dirty dance." All the dancers sneaked over and watched them kiss. When I have finally become an actor myself, Raymond has already gained popularity from his role in "A Step into the past." It was Raymond who asked him out for a meal, plus fate brought the two together, slowly and slowly the two know more about each other. When they were in Twins of Brothers, two of them were in mainland China for four months, everyday, if they aren't filming, they will be in their room talking about all the scenes, how have they done, and how they should do the next day, solidified their friendship. Nowadays, they will speak on the phone at least once every other day, Ron said that in the business, it is almost impossible to find another person who is completely a friend, and I agree with him very much!

Almost at the end of the interview, any of you realized that after so much being talked about, there wasn't little about his rumors, his love life? Not sure if any of you is disappointed, but besides all his rumors with whoever else, there are much more to know about Ron!

credits: the-sun, asianfanatics.