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8 Days
|June 01, 2017
The Ah Boys to Men star on flexing his comedic muscles as a romantic leading man in Lucky Boy and getting starstruck around Chew Chor Meng.
8 DAYS: In the rom-com Lucky Boy, your character Lin Yu, has bad luck at work and in love. Do you identify with him?
WANG WEILIANG: All I can say is if I want something [or somebody], I will do what I can to get what I want — I’m a go-getter. He and I are actually very different. Lin Yu is a very sheltered person. The important decisions are made for him by his parents. That's where we're opposites. I started working when I was young, and I made all my decisions myself. Maybe that's why I remember so clearly what the director [Boris Boo] told me during filming: Don't be yourself — be Lin Yu, do what Lin Yu will do. One key difference: Lin Yu lacks confidence, whereas I don't.
Why do you think you were cast to play him?
I don't really know why I was chosen to be Lin Yu, but I suppose I gave off a certain vibe that matched [the director’s vision] of Lin Yu. Think about it: A person who’s as unlucky as Lin Yu can’t possibly be too handsome (guffaws)! But yes, I'm really lucky [to land the role].
Lucky Boy is your sixth movie, but your first as a leading man. How does it feel to be the main guy for a change?
I've been told [by my co-stars] that they didn’t see me as Lobang [my character in Ah Boys to Men] in this movie. They thought that I had stepped out of Lobang’s shadow. In some ways Lin Yu is actually similar to my character in
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