21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New Straits Times
#SHOWBIZ: Syafie Naswip once threatened to report production to police for unpaid wages
KUALA LUMPUR: Popular actor Syafie Naswip once threatened to file a police report against a production company for failing to pay him several years ago.
However, the company quickly paid him for his work on a television drama before he actually reported them to the police.
"Actually, it's an old incident. Maybe I was still young at that time, but thank God I no longer face the problem of late payments," he said in a Harian Metro report yesterday.
Syafie will soon appear in the supernatural film Mantera produced by Pro Merge Vision Sdn Bhd.
He said that despite having won Best Actor at the Malaysian Film Festival a few times, he believed in working with different production companies, big and small.
"This new film is set in Sabah and I want to help companies from East Malaysia become successful in Peninsular Malaysia, for the sake of Bangsa Malaysia," he said.
"I love working with new companies, it doesn't matter if the film is big or small, I don't choose as long as I can learn something.
"I also want to learn more about the diverse cultures of the peoples of East Malaysia.
"East-West collaborations are great for nation-building and it would be great if more production companies from Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan thrive in Peninsular Malaysia."
Mantera, which is directed by Chester Pang, will open in cinemas nationwide on Thursday.
It focuses on the traditional practices of the Bobolian who serve as cultural guardians of the Kadazan-Dusun peoples of Sabah.
Besides Syafie, Mantera also stars Namron, Jovenia Jim, Wedylin Batala and Larry Noh.
