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Kit goes on ER stint in Hongkong
Kit Chan is taking a break from singing to act as an ER doctor
for a Hongkong television drama. Or, is she? YONG SIEW FERN sat
in on a shoot for Healing Hands II - the sequel to the popular
Hongkong series - and caught her doing the flamenco
REPORT YONG SIEW FERN
Nov 3, 2000
LOVE INTEREST #1: Kit setting off for an outdoor shoot with
co-star and on-screen love interest Bowie Lam.
SINGAPORE singer Kit Chan is packing her bags at her rented
Kowloon Tong apartment.
She has a two-hour break between filming before she returns to
TVB City in Clearwater Bay for her shoot.
Luckily, she has learnt to negotiate the roads and traffic in
Hongkong, and can easily drive herself and her assistant there
in a rented car.
Joked Kit: "I think Amy (her assistant) is the one assistant I
know who gets driven around!"
The singer needs to "clinch" these golden moments between
filming to pack up for Singapore.
LOVE INTEREST #2: Kit, with co-star and possible on-screen
love interest - even she doesn't know yet - Raymond Cho.
Her boutique at The Heeren Shops, called Flowers in the Attic,
is ready for business in two days. She is returning to join her
two partners for the soft opening.
Kit grabs an instant noodle dinner in between packing and hurries
back to the TV studio just a little past 10pm.
Her handphone rings and her assistant assures the other party that
they are on the way.
Said Kit, as if she has lived and worked in TVB for years: "This
director can't be messed with."
SING FOR ME, ANGEL
Kit makes her way to the wardrobe department. In the labyrinth
where rows and rows of clothes are packed fibre to fibre, she
locates her section easily.
DECISIONS: Kit picking clothes for a shoot.
A pink bathrobe surfaces. After changing, she flip-flops her way
to the cold studio.
In her next scene, she emerges from the bathroom and spots a watch
which triggers some memories.
The director is not satisfied with her just towelling dry her hair.
He suggests: "Why don't you sing or hum a tune while you're coming
out."
"Sing one of your own songs."
Kit is not about to be so thick-skinned.
She ends up humming Que Sera Sera.
In the serial, she plays a medical officer called Dorothy, who is
involved in a love triangle between Flora Chan and Bowie Lam.
"There may also be something going on with another co-star, Raymond
Cho, but I'm not sure."
"It's what I call a sophisticated yuppie drama. Some of the veteran
artistes I spoke to said that the script is not very typical.
"It's more daring and the actors say some radical things, so they
say I'm rather fortunate to be in this.
"Bowie also said that I'm lucky because everyone is always happy at
work, not like in (some other serials) where you have to put up with
the Big Brothers and Sisters of the station 'fighting' with each
other."
BEDTIME STORIES
It's back to the wardrobe unit. Kit makes a quick change to do a
bedroom scene - the girlie, sleepover type.
"They actually wanted me to wear this filmsy, black satin teddy
set. No way! I won't even wear that sort of thing at home with my
father around."
She settled for black slacks and a tank top.
"You've come at the wrong time. Usually, there will be men changing
just out here next to the racks. And Amy would go around ooh-oohing."
AGAIN: Kit, rehearsing a scene, and (below) touching up on her make-up.
Her next scene: A girl friend in trouble needs to stay the night, and
the two exchange girl talk before bed.
In the scene, Kit's co-star remarks that she looks the sort who sleeps
naked.
Kit's character replies: "Overseas, maybe. But here in Hongkong, the
flats are so close to each other. Why do it to benefit mah lat lohs
(uncouth, lecherous men)?"
When the shoot was done, the floor manager teases her: "Eh, look, there
are mah lat lohs next door. The next building, upstairs, downstairs.
"There are even three mah lat lohs here!"
However, the singer has no quick quips when asked later if she does
sleep naked in real life.
Shooting a killer look, she said:
"Sometimes I do. But what has this got to do with anything?
"But seriously, after the last major Taiwan earthquake, I don't dare
to sleep naked anymore," said Kit, who was in Taiwan last year when
the earthquake struck.
DANCER IN THE DARK
Sleep does not come so soon. Filming will wrap only at 3am.
Just before midnight, the team heads for a supper break at the canteen.
The Hongkong actresses recommend a hot dessert affectionately called
"cha tzar" - an assorted variety of beans in a sweet soup.
DANCE, NOW!: Kit (right) improvising some flamenco steps.
When filming resumes, Kit and one of the actresses are in a scene
preparing to have a girls' night out.
The director puts on some Spanish music and asks Kit to do a dance
on the spot.
Flamenco.
Said Kit: "That's the thing here. They ask you to do things, but
won't teach you how to do it."
So, she tries to recall her own private flamenco dance lessons
in Singapore.
"I did about four lessons. That was when I realised that there is no
point taking it up when I can't commit the time.
"You can't fake it and put together a routine just like that because
the details are taught separately - the turn of the head, the flick
of the skirt, the stomp of the feet."
Still, Kit tries - with the help of a table cloth.
At one point, her co-star starts laughing into the sofa and cannot
hold up her head.
Not tickled by Kit's dancing, though. She was merely stuffing her
face with dried cod fish strips on the side and before she realised
the camera was rolling.
THE RE-NAMING EXPERT
CO-STARS: Bowie Lam (centre) and Lawrence Ng.
A stream of drug names come rolling off Kit's tongue.
About time she showed she has acquired some medical knowledge since
she is playing an ER doctor.
"Oh yes, I do know some stuff. I've learnt a 'full way' is a faster
version of a drip.
"You give tetanus shots for bad wounds and cuts, valium for
nervousness, and you 'de-fib' someone who has a cardiac arrest -
but not those in accidents."
A retired head nurse is a consultant on the show and, at first,
Kit had trouble understanding the terms she uses.
"I think in the old days, they just say it the way they thought
it was pronounced.
"Like she kept saying 'tib, tib'. When I asked her how to spell
it, it was actually tube."
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