Lin Xiawei: I've loved you from the start! Because you make me feel like your family.
Kate: That cute?
Lin Xiawei: Yeah! I thought me and you click well. We don't have to see each other all the time, I really do like you! Do you love me too? Haha.
Kate: I don't know how to use "love" on a girl, but I admire you too.
Lin Xiawei: I've noticed the way you dress too, you really do have a fashion sense, very simple.
Kate: Are you kidding! I just have other people to help me. Actually I personally like fashion as well. I have to go shopping once a month, next time we can go shopping together. Although I'm more boy than you and our figures aren't the same, but you're so thin, you look good in anything! I do think you're too pale, you could get a small tan. Being too pale is not good for today's healthy skin.
Lin Xiawei: Yeah, I've been shooting an costume drama lately, definitely will get tanned.
Didn't Think Would Enter Showbiz
Kate: I think you're a silly girl, that's something you and I have in common. I remember the first time I saw you, you said that I give you a feeling like family. You came over and just kept talking to me. Later we met again at TVB, you grabbed me and just kept talking and talking, you even told me the things from the bottom of your heart, but I didn't know whether you do that to everyone.
Lin Xiawei: Of course not. I just think you're so cool, not just the physical appearance, but from inside to out. You're very down to earth and feminine. After all, you're a likeable person. You're like a crush, like a magnetic field that attracts me to wanting to play with you. The first time I paid attention to you was after the film Eye in the Sky. Your short hair was so cool and the long hair you have now still matches well. Earlier you were the "drug queen" (Highs and Lows) and performed very well.
Kate: You graduated from a performing arts school, which is something, till this day, I still haven't been able to do. A shortcoming in my acting career because there bound to be something to back you up. How useful it is, nobody knows. That's why education is useful, just you don't know when it becomes useful. You also graduated from a well known school in Mainland. I really do envy you.
Lin Xiawei: Well, I actually never thought of entering this industry.
Kate: You didn't think about it, but you went to study performing arts?
Lin Xiawei: Well yeah, but I initially wanted to become a laywer, then later I participated in the national's star of tomorrow contest and surprisingly got an award. Then some people said I should go study performing arts, but in between I had to consider whether I would take the professional or cultural course. I then slowly gained interest in acting.
Kate: Same here, I started having more interest in acting later on!
Lin Xiawei: I've been following you! When I first joined TVB in 2011, I did not know anybody at my first TVB event, but I noticed you were talking to Roger Kwok about acting, and thought you were serious and modest. Although many have already praised your acting, but you still kept asking how you should be doing it. This is the attractive part about you!
Kate: Thank you for your support. As for acting, I don't really have a lot of skills. I don't really have my own style; the majority of the time, I'm just testing waters. Over the years, many of my roles have some repetition in them, so there are a lot of things I haven't tried yet. I'm still at the absorbing stage.
Lin Xiawei: I think practice is very important. In school, you know about the theory.
Graduate of Performing Arts is the First Prize
Kate: I really want to ask, I heard many Mainland artists came out of the performing arts school. The school has its own theory to teach you, making you have the ability to cry so much, no matter if the feelings are real or not. Even if there were 20 takes, its still the same. Is that true?
Lin Xiawei: Many have asked me that same question. Before when I was in theatre, I had many crying scenes, but I couldn't just do it from the start. The school teaches you to analyze the script.
Kate: Although I do have my own way to control how much I cry and to what extent my emotions should go to, but actually do you compute these things? For artists, a lot of it is about the mental state.
Lin Xiawei: So you have to get used to analyzing the script and get into the character. For crying scenes, many people would think about their sad moments. I don't cry, my personality isn't like that, so I just can't do it. Instead, I think about it in the character's perspective. This method requires more time. In a TV series, you can be living in your character's life for 1-2 months, but sometimes the situation isn't like that, you basically have no time. When I first graduated, I was very troubled, what did I actually learn? The school always wanted me to write character's dialogue, and during the summer, I had to write it line by line. At the time, I thought is that necessary? But now I realized its actually very useful.
Kate: You already knew from day one. It took me several years later to realize this!
Lin Xiawei: I said you were amazing, you didn't learn it and still know it. Just like Zhou Xu, she actually never learned it either, but she had the natural talent. She put it in practice. For an artist, its a lot about the character. Just by looking at her, she may not be tall, but she comes out with a lot of momentum.
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