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8 Days
|July 20, 2017
To prep for his debut movie, A Simple Wedding, DESMOND TAN played tour guide and took his Taiwanese costar AMBER AN to Mount Faber and Henderson Waves, among other local spots. All we’ll say is: Desmond, please stick to your day job.
What do you do when you land your first movie role after 10 years in showbiz? You prepare like mad, of course. And for Desmond Tan, who will play a funeral director in local film A Simple Wedding, it means getting to know his co-star and onscreen girlfriend better. The 30-year-old took Taiwanese actress Amber An, who plays a free-spirited personal trainer and diving instructor who’s marrying Desmond’s character, on a series of pseudo-dates before filming for the $1.5 mil movie kicked off here. Let’s just say his date ideas won’t be going into any Dating 101 handbooks anytime soon (poor Des’ real girlfriend). Desmond, who admits that he didn’t know much about Amber prior to this, spent a week hanging out with her at various spots. And no typical tourist attractions like the zoo, okay? “I came up with a list of activities which includes an embarrassing night out at Henderson Waves, and yes, a trip to the gym. It’s more genuine, right?” he muses.
8 DAYS: Congrats on snagging your first big screen role.
DESMOND TAN: Thanks! I’m very lucky as I didn’t have to audition for it. The director [Lee Thean Jeen, who also directed light-hearted CNY flick,
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