The present, which has been streaming on the YouTube-like platform Youku since November 20, is at the moment the third most watched selection present in China, in keeping with Maoyan – a Chinese language ticketing platform that ranks tv programmes when it comes to scores. Youku is the video platform arm of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns South China Morning Publish.
Ng tells the Publish that Hong Kong entertainers lend themselves effectively to selection reveals in China, as many acquired coaching in dancing and singing at a really younger age.
“Rehearsals began instantly after I arrived in Wuxi [a city near Shanghai],” the actor says. “I rehearsed for the primary episode for round 5 days. For the road dance [performances], I didn’t even must rehearse as I used to be born with the talents.”
Within the first episode of the second season of Shine! Tremendous Brothers, Ng sang Forgotten Time, a music featured on Infernal Affairs II (2003) wherein he performed a crafty and ruthless killer.
Regardless of having appeared on stage in 2019 in musical First Date alongside singer-actress Ivana Wong Yuen-chi, Ng says that singing stay is annoying for him.
“It’d sound unimaginable however I seldom hearken to music. I’ve been listening to extra music currently and the one music I hearken to is Forgotten Time. When I’m at residence, I don’t like noise. I don’t do something that makes a sound.”
Ng says becoming a member of Shine! Tremendous Brothers has been a giant problem for him: “This can be a contest of performing skills and I’ve to collaborate with a crew. However I’m completely satisfied that there are younger individuals on set who educate me about music.”
Fellow contestant Dicky Cheung says he finds the present invigorating, particularly the dance segments. He says needs to have a “breakthrough in dance” as he additionally needs to hitch the fifth season of the massively common Avenue Dance of China.
To remain in form, Cheung says he does 60 push-ups and 300 leaping jacks in his lodge room on days when taking pictures entails lots of bodily exercise.
“I feel the present producers could be extra demanding,” he says.
Each Hong Kong stars look youthful than their age – an element that little question has helped win them scores of followers in China – and Cheung says the important thing to staying younger is to not take into consideration getting older and to be optimistic.
“Whether or not for my work or private life, I anticipate the very best to occur but in addition put together for the worst consequence. I apply this psychological technique to no matter I do,” he says.
Ng says sleeping and meditation helps him keep youthful. “I really like meditating, studying and cooking. There are 21 stars on Shine! Tremendous Brothers. It’s an extended night time when taking pictures is completed,” he says.
“I meditate through the intervals earlier than it’s my flip to carry out. I really endure from a little bit of social nervousness, and meditation helps me settle down.”