Jessica Hsuan and Bobby Au Yeung Love and Hate Each Other
Bobby Au Yeung Chun Wah and Jessica Hsuan have been frequent co-stars. Due to their similar personalities, sometimes they will restrain each other. When they work together, there is endless laughter and they are the best onscreen partners.
Possessing both a successful career and a stable love relationship, Jessica announced in the past that she would not film ancient dramas in the heat of summer. The only exceptions Jessica made were for co-stars, Bobby and Sunny Chan Kam Hung. Jessica admitted that Bobby was her best onscreen partner, “Filming series is an arduous process. We can not control the ratings, but at least we can select our co-stars. Whether the filming process is enjoyable is very important. Bobby is a very cheerful person; you will laugh just looking at him. He is just like Garfield the cat!”
As a punctual person, Jessica complained about Bobby’s late habit. Bobby protested, “If we agree to meet at 3:00 PM, Jessica will arrive at 2:58 PM since she has no where else to go! But now she has a boyfriend. One time, we agreed to meet up to watch Nick Cheung Ka Fai’s The Beast Stalker<証人>. I purposely arrived early and watched as she called me. I told her that I was right behind her, scaring her silly!”
Jessica seems to be especially tolerant of Bobby’s lateness, setting the limit at half an hour. “Men do not have to apply such elaborate make-up prior to filming. So it’s okay for him to arrive a little later.” Bobby pursued the argument, “Jessica and my wife are the same. They do not believe in having other people wait, but then they end up waiting on the street instead!” Jessica said, “I’m just being punctual.” (Even if you knew your co-star would be late, you still arrive early?) “If I know the person well, we will communicate this issue so that he will not be late again. Otherwise, I will nag him.” (What about co-stars that you do not know well?) “The director will usually speak up about late arrivals. I will not speak out even if I am very upset; next time I’ll rather not work together with that person again.” Another drawback about Bobby’s personality was his lack of seriousness. Fortunately, the pair worked happily together. Bobby added, “If I’m running a little late, Jessica will start making a series of calls!”
In fact, the filming for Pillow Case of Mystery Ⅱ<施 公奇案Ⅱ> was perhaps Bobby’s most strenuous project. Filming in the extreme heat and without adequate sleep, Bobby almost suffered a heat stroke in an outdoor scene, but had to follow-up immediately with filming in the studio. Bobby said, “I even slept without removing my ancient headgear. I was very tired and irritable from the filming. Fortunately, Jessica and Joel Chan San Chung consoled me and told me to slow down. That’s why working with incompatible co-starts would be a big problem!”
Jessica appears to succumb to Bobby’s every demand. What did he appreciate the most about Jessica? Bobby joked, “Jessica has a great body and she’s beautiful! Her great figure is often covered up [by loose clothes]! She has a generous heart and will take in stray cats and homeless men, haha….” Jessica immediately protested, “Many men said that their women do not need to have an overly big chest.” What did Bobby dislike the most about Jessica? Bobby imitated Jessica’s low voice and said, “’Where are you?’ If she doesn’t see you, she will call you in an upset voice and ask where you are. It’s very scary!”
In a stable relationship with veterinarian boyfriend, Ruan Bester, for the last year, Jessica admitted that they considered each other to be ideal marriage partners. She was not in a hurry to get married, “We have been dating for several months and will continue to observe each other as we date. I will not be bound by age as a reason to get married quickly.”
What did Jessica learn from Bobby’s loving marriage with Fu Kit Lan? Jessica laughed, “Haha…without children, you can have a lot of freedom! Bobby and Fu Kit Lan are very compatible and sweet together. They like to dine out together and enjoy life. As long as two people make decisions together, then it will not be the wrong decision.”
Although Bobby appears to be a “nuisance” in many aspects, Jessica was never upset by his antics. During the filming of Recipe for the Heart <美 味天王>, Bobby had to wake up an unconscious Jessica by spitting at her face. He threw an entire pail of water on her instead. Jessica said, “My underwear was soaked entirely! But I could only laugh uncontrollably. I quickly re-applied my make-up and continued with filming.” Bobby said that other fadans would not have been so forgiving. “You can tell by just looking at them! While filming Files of Justice V <壹號皇庭Ｖ> , I could tell that Jessica had potential when it came to playing pranks.”
Source: the Sun
Jayne: Mingpao published a similar interview about Jessica and Bobby earlier. Jessica does seem to have greater tolerance for Bobby, while reportedly she had difficulties with many past co-stars, such as Maggie Cheung, Kiki Sheung, etc.
Is bobby not having any children by choice?
“Jessica does seem to have greater tolerance for Bobby, while reportedly she had difficulties with many past co-stars, such as Maggie Cheung, Kiki Sheung, etc.
Jessica seems to get along better with her male co-stars than female co-stars. She’s good friends with many male co-stars, but, there’s always news of her not getting along with her female co-stars. Besides Bobby, she’s also close with Wong Hei, Gallen Lo and Louis Koo I think.
Jessica also has news of not getting along with a male co star too a few years back. I think she has a high requirement but its not necessarily a bad thing.
Kiki Sheung has a lot rumors of not getting along with her costars and filming crews.
Thanks for ur traslation. I think besides male co-stars, Jessica also has a lot of female friends, such as Ada Choi, Flora Chan, Joyce Tang…Like the third promotional activities, I pay attention to that Jessica only talks and smiles with Joyce. Jessica used to say that she doesn’t want to have new friends, her friends she had enough.
Funn, from the article, it sounds as if Bobby and his wife decided not to have children.
Liza Wang is known to be difficult to work with. Many artists have to be especially punctual when they film with her.
There are some people who are on Chinese time, where they are always running a bit late. Sounds like both Bobby and Jessica make a bit of compromise towards each other, he tries to be a little earlier and she tries to be more tolerant.
Jessica probably expects her co-stars to be more professional, time and preparation are key. Masaharu, who is the male co-star? I thought she had some negative rumors with Joe Ma, but they workeed together multiple times.
Damn if Masaharu really meant that punctuality case while filming DOL in 2006 its just misunderstanding! Jessica sumtimes too strict on punctuality and make trouble when she complain easily when a cast got a little late.
To Vivien,
“Jessica sumtimes too strict on punctuality and make trouble when she complain easily when a cast got a little late.”
Stupid me, here I was thinking that punctuality in the workplace is a required professional ethic not a practice or a habit, no?
All I can say is that Jessica is my kind of woman to work with.
ot: How do I italicize the quotes?
^ Yup its a required in workplace but sometimes people may be late for a reason. The case of Jessica with a co-star in 2006 about punctuality is made to be so big unnecessarily by HK magz.
to vivien:
the incident in 2006 was not blown up because of jessica, it was the media that kept talking about it non-stop.
you can’t blame jessica on any of that.
i love jessica and i find her spunky attitude awfully cute.
Punctuality is important and is required for pretty all of the jobs that we have. I can understand if you are late once in awhile or if you have a good reason for being late.However, if you are late every single day or have a stupid reason to be late, then that is a problem. You can even lose your job for being late all the time. Therefore, I don’t think that what Jessica is expecting is too much. However, she should also be understanding when someone is late once in awhile or has a really good reason to be late because who will not be late every now and then?? Who in the world was never late for work or something important at least once in their life???
I’m sure Jessica was not upset for those solemn occasions. If she’s so uptight she won’t be friends with some of the best personality artist.
You can tell a lot about a person based on who s/he hangs with.