Actress Carrie Ng to co-direct first film
Veteran actress Carrie Ng hopes to highlight the plight of prostitutes in her debut as co-director of a suspense drama, writes Yvonne Teh
Having built a successful career playing a series of scarlet women since the '80s, award-winning actress Carrie Ng Ka-lai is gearing up for a new role. She will make her directorial debut in a project which secured a HK$150,000 prize at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum last month.
Set in Sham Shui Po's red-light district, is a suspense-drama about a group of prostitutes and their landlady engaged in a battle of wits against a mystery killer.
Ng will co-produce, and will share directorial credits with Shirley Yung Sau-lan, a project manager with Sundream Motion Pictures, the main backer in the project. Work is scheduled to begin on the US$1.5 million production at the end of this month. Fully aware of her sultry image, Ng insists she's no sexpot in real life.
In reality, I am not a feminine person. I am actually more of a 'tomgirl'
"I'm more like a 'tomgirl' - I'm boyish. So I think it's a great success that the way I perform in the films makes the audience believe that I am a very sexy person. And I think that success says I'm a good actress."
Since graduating from TVB's actor training class in 1981, she has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television series in Hong Kong and on the mainland. At her busiest, Ng has sometimes been involved in nine projects at once. But she also found time for less commercial productions, including Taiwanese auteur Edward Yang De-chang's , and French filmmakers Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud's .
This body of work has not gone unnoticed: she won a Golden Horse best actress award for 1993's and a Hong Kong Film Awards best supporting actress trophy for 2000's .
Ng has long thought of going behind the camera even as she continued to accept acting roles. She will be seen in Pang Ho-cheung's upcoming , in which she brings a mature twist to her typical femme fatale roles.
