Originally starring DaDa Chan Jing, LAN KWAI FONG 3 (HEI OI YEH PO 3) had a joyful production start ceremony on August 7th, but without any advanced warning on August 9th DaDa announced her retirement due to emotional disorder online and vanished without notifying the production team. Yet several days later she "resurfaced" for another film's additional shoot, thus enraging LAN KWAI FONG 3 director Wilson Chin Kwok Wai. As everyone asked him whether he would look for a replacement for DaDa, Director Chin could not be angrier already. He did not want to be dumped and instead removed DaDa's character from the script entirely. In ten short days "the deck was reshuffled" with 2011 Miss Hong Kong second runner up Whitney Hui Yik Nei in the female lead. Her role would also be an even split with the film's other lead actress Ava Yu Kiu.
To familiarize the actors with the performance environment, Director Chin last Saturday night led the actresses Yu Kiu, Whitney and Inch Mouth Barbie to scout Lan Kwai Fong. Yu Kiu "stuck" to Director Chin and chatted closely, while Whitney followed the group. The four did several laps around Lan Kwai Fong. The three beauties descended the stairway like they were on the catwalk, as pedestrians ducked to the sides and stared. Director Chin said that they would scout the location every time they made LAN KWAI FONG for the actors to be able to submerge into it easily and make it convenient for the production. Last night Director Chin and another group of "angel" members Yuri Chan Yui Yui, Kibby Lau Lei and Coffee Lam Chin Yu dined.
Director Chin actually had his heart set on using Whiteny as the lead actress. However at the time DaDa was still around and Director Chin could only arrange for Whitney to guest star. Now DaDa ran off, Director Chin promoted Whitney's role to lead actress. Even though LAN KWAI FONG films were known for their love scenes, Whitney both with her Miss Hong Kong background and TVB contract actress had a protected image and Director Chin was still willing to coordinate. Yesterday he said that Whitney will not have any nude scene. "We respect TVB very much. Right now we are still in negotiation. This time Whitney will just be limited sexy. She will have love but not much lust. The last time (Shiga) Lin Si Nga wasn't nude either! (Co-star?) (Jason) Chan Pak Yu. (In the first time he had a chest squeezing scene.) I still haven't finished with their roles yet, ultimately it will stop short of anything!"
Whitney yesterday was excited about the lead role. "After hearing the story, the sexy standard was my bottom line. The director promised m that the priority of everything was looking pretty! (You were promoted after DaDa's retirement.) Don't say that, the role just got larger and the story changed. So you can't say I replaced her!" TVB executive Elaine Lok Yi Ling yesterday confirmed Whitney's performance. "Because of the changes from losing DaDa's character, Hui Yik Nei heard the pitch and found it acceptable so we will let her try it. (She can't have any love scene?) LAN KWAI FONG 3 will be a category IIB film. We TVB are more strict with our artists, but Director Chin promised me that he would make appropriate adjustments."
Source: on.cc
Translated by: hktopten
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