Fish Liew aims to re-master Bahasa M'sia
ACTRESS Fish Liew regrets neglecting her Bahasa Malaysia and vows to re-master the language for local roles, reported China Press.
The 35-year-old, who won Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2022, will be starring in Pavane for an Infant – the latest movie by local director Chong Keat Aun.
The Hong Kong-based Malaysian, who had returned here for filming, found that she had lost touch with her home country and could no longer speak the national language well.
'Every time I return home, when people call me a Hong Konger, I feel sad in my heart,' she said.
According to Chong, Liew had dialogue in Mandarin, English, Hokkien, Cantonese and Bahasa Malaysia.
'It seems that she has been away for too long. When speaking Bahasa, she had to read her lines out word by word,' he said.
Liew promised to re-master the language so that she can sound like an actual Malaysian on film.
In Pavane for an Infant, Liew plays a social worker at a baby hatch who takes an interest in a troubled young girl who is contemplating abortion.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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