(top) Andrew Lin with LoveHKFilm webmaster Ross Chen.
(bottom) The LoveHKFilm Award for Most Underrated Performance.
How
This Happened
Previous
to this meeting, LoveHKFilm.com
has never officially met with any HK Entertainment
personalities. We're
glad that Andrew Lin accepted to meet with us because
because he was honest and down-to-earth, plus he wasn't
angry with us for what we said about Wife From
Hell.
The circumstances for this happening were circuitous
and rather coincidental, but here's the short version:
somehow Andrew Lin heard of the LoveHKFilm
Awards
and posted it on alivenotdead.com.
Coincidentally, one of the Webmaster's friends knows
Terence Yin, who of course knows Andrew Lin. A week
or so later, we managed to put this thing together,
which in total required eight phone calls and an extra
week to prepare the first ever physical LoveHKFilm
Award, a blue-and-clear glass bauble that turned out
a lot nicer than we thought it would.
The
long version of this story would take an extra three
pages so we'll spare that for a later day.
Special
Thanks to:
Sean Tierney, Winnie Chan, Paul
Hong and of course Andrew Lin.
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Hong
Kong, March 18, 2007
In an unexpected event, actor Andrew
Lin met with LoveHKFilm.com
staff to accept the LoveHKFilm
Award for "Most Underrated Performance",
earned for his underappreciated work in the 2006 mockumentary
The
Heavenly Kings. The film was also among
LoveHKFilm.com's
"Top Ten Films of the Year", announced on
February 22, 2007, as part of the 2006
LoveHKFilm Awards.
The "Most
Underrated Performance" Award is given in recognition
of a good performance by an actor that was not noticed
or appreciated by the media, award-giving bodies, or
the general audience. In The Heavenly Kings,
Andrew Lin played himself, but not in an exaggerated
or expected manner. Lin was sympathetic and surprisingly
likeable as a seemingly humble, yet quietly vain actor,
who uses his friends as a way to boost a flagging acting
career. The role brought an extra layer to the film's
entertainment industry satire, painting artists as not
just unfortunate victims, but also conniving opportunists.
Andrew Lin
graciously met with LoveHKFilm
at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Central, Hong Kong,
where we shared a cup of coffee and talked about his
career, The Heavenly Kings, and the Hong
Kong entertainment scene in general. We'd like to thank
Andrew for taking the time to connect with fans of Hong
Kong film and entertainment, and also for being candid
and personable. In a forthcoming update, we'll share
more of our conversation with him in a longer feature
interview.
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