“Reality Check” Star Hero Yuen is Ready for Battle
Hero Yuen (阮政峰) has rarely been off our television screens since appearing on TVB’s talent program, Kung Fu Supernova <功夫新星>, but it was not until the TVB drama Reality Check <心路GPS> when Hero’s convincing performance as a spoiled Hong Kong teenager did he finally received attention from the audience.
“When the producer called me in for a chat, I did not realize that it was actually a casting audition. When I received the script [of Reality Check] later, I was in total shock. Thankfully, I get to play myself,” Hero laughed. “Like my role, I am also quite vain. Whenever I pass by my reflection on the buildings in the streets, I will look at it. I am also someone who loses interests in things very easily.”
Much like his character Sky in Reality Check, Hero also dreamed of being a celebrity. “I loved watching television when I was younger. Whenever I watch dramas with firemen, I would say I want to be a fireman when I grow up. Whenever I see lawyers, I would want to be a lawyer. My mom then told me that since I wanted to be everything, I should just be a celebrity. I knew she was joking at the time, but that thought never left me.”
After graduating from high school, Hero took up a job as a martial arts coach for young children. When he encountered the casting call for Kung Fu Supernova, Hero immediately auditioned for the show. Hero was determined to join the entertainment industry in full force. “I successfully got cast in the program, but I was afraid that I would lose out in the end, so I applied to TVB’s artist training class as a backup. I made sure that I would get into the industry no matter what.”
His family was initially worried about Hero’s career choice, but after watching his thoughtful performances in television dramas, his mother became very supportive. “Although it was a very minor role, my mom could see that I put in a lot of thought into the performance. She is now starting to understand that her son is not playing around anymore.”
Hero thanked his costars and seniors, Ruco Chan (陳展鵬) and Evergreen Mak (麥長青), for supporting and teaching him throughout the shooting of Reality Check. “I promise to continue to humbly accept criticism and learn wholeheartedly.”
Source: Three Weekly via kuangaitvb.com
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
Even though I think that he a bit of ‘yeung shui” but I enjoy his performance in Reality Check and he suits the Git jai very much. He is the reason I hook the first few episodes.
He’s the best thing in Reality Check. I really enjoyed his story and his crying skills was magnificent he’s a great actor. If I’m TVB I will quickly promote him before HKTV snatch him!
It wasn’t a minor role and it was a good performance. He can do kung fu??
This kid Iis talented and I can’t wait to see him more often on my screen! I thought his performance was very convincing and his raw talent is quite eye opening 🙂
Is he the guy in eps 1 of Kungfu show on 2011? If it’s really him, he looks very cute and photogenic.
Good for Hero. He seems like a hardworking person with a lot of raw talent. He looks so young though. Anyone know how old he is? Looks 14-15 to me for some reason 😛
He should be around 22 since he was born in 1991
love hero’s performance in reality check. tvb should promote him! he’s fresh and is very talented! since he can do kungfu tvb should make him doing ancient series in a bigger role. better hero than those older actors who can’t improve for years such as matthew ko and lai lok yi and so jason chan who can act for nuts.
I think Hero was shafted to hosting kids shows because of his young look. Lol
Hero is a telanted actor, I want to see more of him! He also seems to have a warm personality in his Weibo messages. I can see he put in great effort in his role in Reality Check, wish he have more good roles. I think tvb is not really promoting him at the moment, in the tvb weekly or promotion they only focus on introducing Fish Wong, which is a bit annoying to me.
i’m appalled that for reality check there are a lot of interviews for louise lee’s son but none for hero! i think her son can’t act and his girlfriend in the series can’t act too! don’t get why that son ets much attention and is featured in so many news and series lately. his acting is bad and he’s ugly! he’s now in food for slaves playing 14th prince while we don’t hear much about hero who did a wonderful job and got lots of praises from netizens for his short performance. don’t get how tvb promote people!
Maybe YOU should get a job there since you have so many complaints about tvb promoting the people you don’t like.
A very good performance from a newcomer. In fact, its way better than any of the recent female newcomers that TVB have been trying to promote. Perhaps those girls should stop talking about high Christian morals and spend more time learning to act.
Oh my god. Lol. This is awesome.
“Perhaps those girls should stop talking about high Christian morals and spend more time learning to act.”
AGREE!!!!!
His acting was believable in Reality Check. Like to see him in more diverse roles and not keep doing the same role, which TVB likes to do when an artist is good in portraying a particular role.
I didn’t realize he was from that Kung Fu show. He has a lot of potential and hope to see him in some more supporting roles to help him grow.
I really like his role in Reality Check. I feel like it’s a mirror of a 90s teenager growing up. :/
well at least a mirror of me. :/