Richie Koh is a good sport in A Good Child

The local star endured three-hour make-up and hair sessions, lost llkg and wore a corset for the role of a drag queen in the upcoming movie

- Benson Ang Lifestyle Correspondent

For his latest role, Richie Koh had to don thick makeup, oversized wigs and even a corset.

To portray a drag queen in his new movie A Good Child, which opens in Singapore cinemas on Oct 9, he also had to lose Ilkg.

But it was all worth it to capture the nuances of his character Jia Hao, who is estranged from his family but returns home to care for his mother (played by Hong Huifang) when she is diagnosed with dementia.

When he mischievously reconstructs her memory to make her believe that he is a daughter of hers and not a son, he confronts his childhood traumas along the way.

The heartwarming drama is written and directed by Singaporean filmmaker Ong Kuo Sin, who helmed the comedy-drama film Number 1 (2020) and its sequel Number 2 (2025). In those films, homegrown actor-comedian Mark Lee played an out-of-work middle-aged man who accidentally becomes a nightclub drag queen sensation.

A Good Child is based on the life of local full-time drag queen Sammi Zhen, whose real name is Christopher Lim.

Koh told The Straits Times in an interview at GV Suntec City on Sept 24 that the movie's storyline and themes touched his heart.