NIKI: Actually I should call you father-in-law!
WAYNE: Of course. Before my son always came to work with me, he loves beautiful girls, once he saw Niki he was so happy and always chatted with her. I told her to marry my son.
NIKI: That time I made an empty promise and told his son to pursue me when he gets older. Can't believe he's so much older now, even taller than me!
WAYNE: In the past child brides were like that. Find a girl to raise the son and then later marry him. Pretty good!
NIKI: Do you mind your daughter-in-law older than you son? Do you mind the gender?
WAYNE: I don't mind. I respect every individual and every life. You are not in charge. In this world, who has the authority to control others?
NIKI: If my father-in-law in the future is like you, then I have no regrets!
WAYNE: Just treat me like your father-in-law, that works too!
NIKI: The problem now is that we both might be OK, but your son isn't OK with this, haha! The boy would ask me how old am I? In fact, it is your son that isn't OK with this! I don't oppose to 'sister-brother love', but our age gap is just too big.
WAYNE: In reality there is some pressure!
NIKI: If I really was with Jing Kiu (Wayne's son), I actually do mind. When he's 30 years old, I'll be 40 something. He will dislike me then, I have no confidence in myself! If he was a little older, then it's OK!
WAYNE: Love, I have gone through a lot. In fact it is really about if you match with that person or not and if you can really go down that path together. That is very important and has nothing to with the looks. No matter if you are a man or a woman, you will still get old.
NIKI: But men are playboys?
WAYNE: Yes, but the issue is if you can defeat that battle! However, men really are playboys, it's nature! Just as long as the woman does not mind him being a playboy, then there is nothing to fear.
NIKI: I still cannot get there.
WAYNE: Later! Wait until you get older, then you can!
NIKI: Sons have their own world as they get older. It's not a problem if your son is a homosexual?
WAYNE: Of course that is not a problem, as long as he likes. However, I know my son definitely won't be!
NIKI (to Jing Kiu): Little brother, do you like a girlfriend older than you?
KIU: Sure, no problem!
WAYNE: Sometimes when I see news reports saying that my son is a homosexual, if I were my son, how would I feel? Actually it's nothing much because when you love a person, you will not care what others think. Just like teaching your children, many parents like to force their kids to learn piano, art, learn this and that, but have you ever asked them if they wanted to?
NIKI: Then am I your ideal daughter-in-law?
WAYNE: Of course, you are beautiful and filial...this question, actually I don't know either, have to get to know you more first.
NIKI: Haha! Father-in-law, you really are precise!
WAYNE: I'm very honest!
Help partner memorize their dialog
NIKI: Actually shooting with him (Wayne) is a really good feeling. Anyone who had collaborated with Wayne, I never heard any of them say it wasn't good. The moment he won the award, I really was emotional. He personally doesn't mind winning or not, and if he wins he won't feel he's top of the world. He would just say thank you and continue his work as usual, not everyone can have this attitude.
NIKI: Back then when I was shooting The Gentle Crackdown with him, we had a lot of lines. Sometimes Moses Chan has trouble memorizing his lines, but Wayne helps by memorizing those lines for him. We all said that if we ever have trouble remembering our lines, we can just ask Wayne to do it. I asked you before, how come you has so little NG? You said it is related to your studies in the past.
Non-biological children has the opportunities too
WAYNE: I personally love Chinese, I am an essay man. I like to poetry because there wasn't much to play with when I was younger. My brother loves Chinese too and is very good at memorizing poems too. Perhaps it's heredity, I started memorizing poems when I was young. Between my brother and I, we started competing on memorizing poems. My first memorized poem was Li Bai's Bringing in the Wine. It is a very good practice to memorization. Sometimes it's not because I memorized all the lines that I don't NG much, but because I digested the content. Even if the lines were turned around, I can still use language to flip it back around and make the line sound reasonable!
NIKI: Like when I was shooting Lee Tim Shing's My Cruel Lover, there was actually a lot of slang in it, but the script was written very smoothly, so I was able to digest the content easily, the script is very important!
WAYNE: Haha! If Tim Gor starts a series for us, what type of series do you think fits?
NIKI: Difficult to be a Daughter-in-Law! Hahah!
WAYNE: In fact, it really is hard to think of something. However, Tim Gor does not like to shoot modern series. Costume and Pre-Modern series are much richer, modern has too many restrictions. If not, then we can do Family . Spring . Autumn too, I can be your father-in-law! Or if that doesn't work, I won't be your father-in-law, I can be your brother-in-law!
NIKI: Can we be lovers?
WAYNE: Yes, even Damien Lau and Kathy Chow (Hoi Mei) worked, what can't do?! The most important is the role, don't be talking about how I'm 20 years old or maybe about how Niki is 40 years old. Have to accommodate each other, and don't force it.
Done with outside work, back to maternal home
NIKI: Actually neither of us signed a TVB management contract, we are both very similar. We both had many acting opportunities in TVB, and so we broke the rumors in the public that only biological children have the opportunities.
WAYNE: The most important is doing your part, each person has a different path, must fit with the personal character. For me, I fit in television. I have tried working outside before, but eventually came back knowing that I am very afraid of strangers. When I was shooting a film, the location was different on a daily basis, the crew is different every time and sometimes it gets awkward. I can just tell you how it's like in TVB, the outside world, you will have to personally experience yourself. I really support Niki signing with TVB, it's better to have a manager stand out for you, would feel much more comfortable.
Niki melts the extreme cool Jing Kiu
Today, Jing Kiu is a true man (taller than Wayne), just saw him with little words and looking very cool. Seeing Niki jeh jeh (sister) again several years later, the extreme cool character instantly melts away. Jing Kiu went from being cool to blushing and from blushing to enthusiastic. He talked endlessly with Niki...no wonder Wayne could help but say: "This daughter-in-law cup of tea is well worth the drink!"
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