Andie Chen still waiting for a breakout role

The actor is back on the small screen playing a police inspector in the fantasy drama Fixing Fate

- Benson Ang

For Andie Chen, missing out on the Best Actor prize for the fourth time at the Star Awards in July “definitely stung”.

But two months after the awards ceremony that honours the best in local television, the Singaporean actor is now “okay” with the loss as “it doesn’t affect my quality of life”.

Chen, 40, told The Straits Times over the phone on Sept 16: “I felt disappointed for maybe three, four days, a week at most. But I was never devastated.”

His approach to acting is to do it at a level where he can respect himself, instead of doing it for “outward approval - either for the director, producer or audience”.

“Now, | ask myself if I have done the role and the story justice. Is the representation fair? Is (this) the deepest I can go?”

In his view, he has done right by his latest role as an honest but stubborn police inspector in the fantasy drama Fixing Fate. Also starring Xu Bin, Carrie Wong and Fang Rong, the series premieres on Channel 8 on Oct 2 and will air on weekdays at 9pm. It is available on mewatch from Sept 29.

Although Chen has played cops before, notably in the hit series C.L.I.F. (2011) and Disclosed (2013), the production team trusted him to interpret the Fixing Fate character in his own way and push it further than was originally planned.