Tavia Yeung ~ After 10 Years

Tavia Yeung ~ After 10 Years


Entertainment industry is just like fireworks. Outshining moments are just temporary. Entered this industry for 10 years, Tavia Yeung used time to prove her ability and cherished every chances that she had. This was because she did not want to miss any opportunity that was given to her. After 10 years, she will put extra hard work and are willing to accept challenges.



Best Supporting Actress

Last year’s popular series in the year, Moonlight Resonance led to Tavia Yeung’s role inside, Ah Yuet to gain Best Supporting Actress Awards in TVB Anniversary Awards 2008. Recalling her speech during that night, most of the artistes that were present that night were as emotional as her. Her speech part which was being admired the most was when she firstly greeted veteran artiste, Lee Heung Kam. Respect the veterans is a virtue. Sometimes artistes would be over-excited and forgot everything when they received awards but her rational speech between her touched emotions really impressed everyone.

Time is realistic for an artiste. In 10 years time, some artistes would be leading a smoother road, would not afraid of no chances to take part in series, would not afraid of no awards and would be busy all the time. Some artistes would seem half promoted, popularity not enough and no chance to take part in series and what they could do is to wait. There would be some artistes that would work hard and fight with time every day. They would insist on work hard to build up ability and popularity.

Tavia Yeung belongs to the latter. She entered this industry for 10 years and it was a coincidence that she joined TVB Acting Training Class and entered this field. She never imagined before that something that she treated as a game would lead to a perfect career that she totally indulged in. “Last time, I did not know much about acting and I did not know what I could do. When I tried different roles, I found out that I loved this field very much and hoped that I could do better.”

Recalling her career road all these years, she did not treat herself as a senior but she found her enjoyment in another way. “Honestly, I did not experience big success or failure in my career. Sometimes when I worked until very tired, I would feel that I did not have energy to continue. That time I would feel that I was a failure. However I always feel that although there is hardship in entertainment industry, but at least my life is colorful every day as I will do different things every day.“ After 10 years, she hoped that she could have chance to try evil role. From a good person to a baddie, she hoped that she could try a different type of role.


Zero Rumours

When we switched on the TV or read a newspaper, there were many rumours, expose etc . Don’t worry as all these things do not relate to Tavia Yeung. HK entertainment parapazzi would follow the artistes all the time. However, as long as the artistes behave well, they couldn’t do anything or wrote any bad things about them.

Everyone will be curious on an artiste’s real character. Tavia Yeung’s role on tv always is a strong girl and will differentiate love and hate firmly. Of course all of these roles were created and designed by other peoples. “Actually I’m someone that believes other peoples easily. I’m also more cheerful type, simple minded and therefore I’m easy to get along with other peoples.” Until now, Tavia Yeung answered all my questions seriously.

“I feel that I’m like white colour.” From her answer, I could understand how she could keep the “zero rumours” record all these years. “Life in entertainment industry is full of diversity. However, my life is simple and I do not like complicated life. I prefer everything comes naturally and I’m not someone that always likes to have news surrounding me.”

Today, I could interview Tavia Yeung face to face and I really could feel her trueness and no fakeness at all. Tavia Yeung admitted that to face everything in entertainment industry, firstly must learn to accept. “Last time, I was afraid of wearing sexily during photo shooting. However, time flies and perhaps due to my increasing age, I have opened up my mind and I knew that I would not grow up if I did not make any changes. Especially in this field as we had to learn to accept new challenges and there were many times that we must learn to accept and this will lead to freshness in my work to audiences.”

In 10 years time, she experienced discouragement and disappointment but she never had the thinking of giving up. “I like acting. The satisfaction is very big and will give encouragement for me to strive further. I will always look forward for my next role after I finished with a role. “


The secret of everlasting beauty.

Love beauty is every woman’s special quality. If see clearly, Tavia Yeung looks exactly the same as a few years back of her and did not change much. Being in this industry for 10 years which was not long and not short either, it seemed that time did not place a lot of implications on her as her skin did not have sign of differences in age. This was indeed something happy for her. “Everlasting beauty is not inevitable. Every day I will let my skin to have enough water.”

“Thanks H2O for Face Oasis Hydrating Treatment. As the endorser for Malaysia region, Tavia kept praising this product. “Water is important for life. Every day, we need water and it is just as important as air. Skin is also same and needs 8 glasses of water every day. How to maintain? Of course use Face Oasis Hydrating Treatment!”

As for maintaining her skin condition, Tavia Yeung will not be careless. “As an artiste, I always have to wear makeup and my skin will always lack of water. Every night, I will use Face Oasis Hydrating Treatment to provide water for my skin. This product is very important for me.” Knew H2O for 2 years and it equaled to how long she knew how to protect skin. “Other than facial skin, body skin is also very important for treatment. Especially in the hot weather in Malaysia.” As the spokeperson for H2O, she did not forget to promote the skin treatment product. Tavia Yeung said, “It is as good as Face Oasis Hydrating Treatment. The price is affordable and really suits the young girls nowadays.“

“I have already known H2O product in HK earlier. It is popular in HK and I’m actually a fan of the product. Therefore I have a lot of confidence on the product. Now I’m so happy that I had chance to become the spokesperson of the product.”

Inner beauty in new era

When we asked Tavia Yeung to help us to do photo shooting for Gucci and Bontega fashion outfits, the arranged style and beauty was totally different from her. However, when she did posing in front of camera, her artiste’s feel appeared and her eye’s expression and whole outlook gave a very stylish feel.

After she received Best Supporting Actress, a lot of people said that Tavia Yeung is TVB’s Big Sister now. She was shocked and insisted that she did not feel herself is some sort of Big Sister. This was just a name given by other people and she will just continue to work hard in her job. “For me, being named as Big Sister is not important. I will just grab chances and play my roles well.” She understands that entertainment industry is a place that will accept peoples with ability and will kick out peoples who are weak. Every year, there will be newcomers with ability and good appearance. The competition is tight so she will grab any chances that she has because she do not want to miss the chances.

Currently, she is not dating and whenever she mentioned about her love relationship in the past, her face would be full of happiness look. She expressed that the award came from the confidence and certainness from the audiences and therefore, she will put extra efforts in the upcoming years in her work. Tavia said, “I do not want to disappoint those peoples that support me.” Dating and marriage are not her targets now. She hopes that she can try out different things like movies and singing. “Everything depends on fate. I’m not rushed into getting married. Being single is nice.” It seems that for her, the excitement in acting gave her more enjoyment than anything else.

I asked her a question which is every female artistes’ dream : Marry into a rich family. Tavia Yeung expressed, “Hahaha. If got, of course good! But I prefer to depend on myself. I enjoyed spending the money that I earned myself and also enjoyed work hard to earn money for my family.” Who doesn’t want to marry into a rich family? If there is chance, of course good but if there isn’t, there is no need for disappointment. Tavia Yeung prefers to marry a good guy and not to marry someone because of money.

Friendly is priceless

The time is nearly 11 pm. After the interview, Tavia Yeung said thank you in a good manner and her smiles still maintained on her face. She is indeed a friendly person (Is it because I have the same surname with her as she has already noticed that when I gave her my name card?) and she took the initiative to shake my hand.

Looking at her friendly expressions, I asked her, “Do you have any close friends in the entertainment industry? Did you go out with Raymond Lam and Moses Chan privately before?”

Tavia Yeung turned towards her manager a while and said, “They are my male friends. Raymond and I were friends for many years. We graduated from the same training class. As for Moses, he is just like a big brother for me. He is someone that I can sit down and chat with him. Normally I will go shopping with Christine Ng, Jessica Hsuan and others. Actually I’m someone that easy to make friends with and someone that easy to chat with.”

Although I did not get my expected answer, but her friendliness came from her sincerity is something that I could not deny. I believe that based on her sincerity and her willingness to fight, soon we will get to see her outshining performance in the entertainment industry.

Credits: Jessie's Blog
Source: Sister Issue 878
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