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Let me quote most of the comments during Squat6 interview
"Nicholas Tse was destined for a roller-coaster life in the public eye. The son of legendary actor Patrick Tse and soft-core porn actress Deborah Li was dubbed Hong Kong's "bad boy of pop" because of his less-than-wholesome escapades, from crashing cars and assaulting a photographer to becoming mainland mega-diva Faye Wong's toy boy.
He tells Squat what it is like being jeered onstage, going to prison and smashing guitars."
"Life's a Bitch."
Being a multi-selling megastar hasn’t always been mass adoration and adulation.
When he started performing live at 16, Nicholas Tse heard someone shout, "Get the fuck off the stage".
"I couldn't hear jack what I was singing. I couldn't hear one word, because the crowds were booing so much," he recalls.
Despite the barrage lasting three years, he hung in there.
"My assistants were actually the ones who were dropping the tears. But I believed in myself. And I believed in music."
The award-winning singer and actor reveals that being born to a prestigious famous family has its perks and drawbacks.
"Some of the media say that I got into the business because of my parents. I do not doubt any chances of that because it was really a big thing when I first came out, being the son of my dad and mum," he says.
"[People thought] I did not have to work hard. I did not have to do such and such. In their minds, whenever I performed or did movies, it was like I was supposed to know everything.
“I was supposed to do good. If I do 80%, it would be knocked down to 45 because 'he was supposed to know'. Why am I supposed to know? Because I was born in a family that was in the business?"
Tse learnt to be tenacious at an early age, thanks to his father’s fame.
"There was this time when my parents had a lot of entertainer friends over. When I was young, I was very scared of the dark, so I'd never close my door when I was sleeping. They [the friends] had a chat with my dad.
“When my dad went down to the basement for mahjong or to socialize with the other friends, these friends that he was talking to previously talked shit about my dad.
“I went to the door. I heard all the stuff. And I swore to myself: When I grow up, no matter what I do, I'm going to go straight out.”
Fall of a Star
"That's life. Life's a bitch," says the 26-year-old of the tough times in his life so far.
One of those was spending a fortnight in prison (just two months after getting the World Music Award in Monte Carlo for best-selling Chinese artist), in 2002, to await trial for perverting the course of justice.
Tse's black Ferrari 360 Modena crashed on Cotton Tree Drive in Central, Hong Kong. In the original police report, Tse's chauffeur Shing Kwok Ting was listed as the driver when the accident happened.
However, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) revealed, in further investigation, that Tse was driving. The prosecution claimed the singer had telephoned his chauffeur immediately after the crash, who offered to take the blame and then settled the matter with a corrupt cop, Lau Chi Wai.
According to the singer's defence team in a statement submitted to the court—Tse refused to testify in person—when Tse was arrested by the ICAC 20 days after the accident, he admitted that he was driving the car when it crashed and only walked away because no police officers came. He was apparantly in a hurry to catch a plane in Thailand.
Despite the fact that, three days after the crash, Tse was still publicly blaming Shing.
All three men were put in the dock. Shing pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison. The other two pleaded not guilty, but were found guilty. Lau was given a six month prison sentence and Tse was ordered to do 240 hours of community service.
Even now, Tse denies he was part of the collusion: "Why did I lie about crashing my car in 2002? To be honest, I didn't. Still, up until today, I think it was media pressure."
"No one has ever been judged in a courtroom while there were a few thousand fans outside the courtroom. That makes a difference," he says. "It makes the judge a little more power-happy. It makes the courtroom a little circus."
The Circus
The trial was a media circus, with the world's press and thousands of fans horded outside the courthouse.
Outside the prison where Tse was held, paparazzi gathered to take shots of him in prison uniform as he was led out for daily exercise. Headlines screamed that the prodigal son was now a disgrace to Hong Kong entertainment.
"Did I affect Hong Kong economy that much? If I did, I might as well start World War Three, or world peace. If I can do both, does that make me Hitler or Napoleon?" Tse asks.
Press revelled in kicking the rich kid. Reverse snobbery that was unjustified, Tse adds: "I see myself as no different to any other kid on the street. I was the rich and famous kid who crashed the Ferrari. Famous I was. But rich?"
He reveals: "I never had a new car. My first car was new, but all the other cars I had: they were Ferraris, they were good cars, but nobody knew they were third-hand, fourth-hand. One of my Ferraris was actually cheaper than a new Audi. Well, only I knew that. I didn't have to let the whole world know."
"I lived in a 400 feet [square] room for three years when I first started in the industry and worked my way up. But I don't mind, because that gives me a challenge to break through even harder."
Prison
"When I went in, the jail manager said: 'You were just bait. You were the experimental mouse. They had to show people celebrities do not get a leeway of getting around the law'. Well maybe it was me," Tse says.
"There are too many whys. I know from the bottom of my heart, I did not deserve coming in here. It was just an experience for me. It was not punishment."
During his prison time, Tse remained unremorseful about events.
"Did it prove good thinking time? No, it didn't," he admits.
"I was only thinking how I could act to be well in front of my mother and my father, and how I'd failed them, and made them worry. How I worried my girlfriend [pop starlet Cecilia Cheung]. Not about the car crash."
In hindsight, he prefers to focus on his own tribulation.
"I take prison as an experience so nobody can ever say again that this kid came out of nowhere, went through nothing and got his fame and glory. No, I went through something.
Awards
Despite winning a fair few in his time, Tse doesn't have a high opinion about the Hong Kong music industry being so focused around industry awards. He stands by his words by refusing to attend ceremonies.
"It's bullshit," he says simply.
"Having me sing 55 seconds for getting an award. Or not getting an award only because I did not attend the ceremony. Is that fair? If I wanted to get an award, I'd go and sit there for hours and I would get up to four awards per ceremony.
"I see that as a pain in the ass sitting in what I call a butcher's market. Everybody is on sale. All artists are on sale."
Tse refuses to play the fame game, and tells those who believe that his marriage to Cheung, in 2006, was a publicity stunt to "go to the church, and just kill yourself there".
He says: "That's a really wrong way to get promoted because you're marrying someone and that's for life."
Smashing Guitars
Tse's energetic stage performances are often controversial, especially for a Hong Kong audience used to squeaky-clean entertainment.
"Maybe I offended someone speaking the truth," he says.
"I was wearing big jeans, sunglasses, big T-shirts like kids now do. But I was criticized that I was an uneducated kid because I was wearing big jeans, showing my boxers. I only stepped a little faster fashion-wise, 'cos I did that 10 years ago.
"Now it's hard to find someone who actually wears tight jeans instead of big, oversized jeans. What the hell is wrong with that? Maybe it was just wrong timing."
So, how many guitars has he smashed over the years in concert?
"You know, really not that many. Maybe six or seven," he admits.
"Look at the Rolling Stones, Kiss and Nirvana. They smash drums, for God's sake. One kid smashing a guitar in 1997 does not make a fucking difference.
"It's not like the Hiroshima bomb-ed Hong Kong. It was just another smashed guitar by another kid on stage. Just because Hong Kong audiences were not used to seeing that. Well, see something new."
All you can see what he say is simply why i listen his music due to his choice and taste on music. Frankly, i was surprised to read new whereabouts on his jail time.
I know the best because i was nearly like this before but just this close.
However it is slightly different level of seriousness.
I hope that this piece of interview teach people that the path of being celebrity is not always rich thing or having endless choice of branded clothes.
It is great to know young Nicholas trying to confront people who bad mouthed his father behind his back.
The period he was getting hotter and hotter property in entertainment industry was his best transition especially on the songs such as Jade Butterfly. I hope that his long break on music industry will revitalise him
Protege(Moon To)(Hong Kong Movie 2007)
Synopsis
The story revolves around drug trafficking with Andy Lau as the major heroin dealer, grooming his successor, Daniel Wu, to take over the business. The film, financed by England, US, China, Hong Kong and Singapore is produced by Peter Chan.
Opinions:
It is quite good movie.I can safely say that this movie is good benchmarking for this year movie but it is short from the standard of Infernal Affairs.
The scenario how drug dealers and drug addicts seem to be realistic as it may happen in the real life behind your eyes.
Rating:7/10
Bonus:1)Big A-list actors likes of Andy Lau, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu 2)Realistic scenes 3)Louis Koo did excellent job of impersonate himself as drug addict
Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 3:52 pm
