Angelica Lee Sinje has returned to show business and she is in good form after taking a long break. The Malaysian actress, who tied the knot with director Oxide Pang Chun earlier this year, will appear at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre later this month in Grand Expectations, a new play directed by Edward Lam.
Written by her mentor, veteran director and actress Sylvia Chang Ai-chia, the film revolves around a love triangle, with Lee playing a woman waiting for her Prince Charming. Tony Yang and David Wang play the men in her life, an aspiring architect and a wannabe superstar.
Lee started out as a pop singer, then switched to movies, winning best actress at the Golden Horse, Hong Kong Film and Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia awards in 2002 for her role in The Eye, a Pang brothers horror flick. Her performance in the Taiwanese production Betelnut Beauty earned her a new talent award at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival.
Grand Expectations premiered in Shanghai in July. What was it like?
As an actress, it's good to get involved in a stage production once in a while. Theatre and film are two different art forms. In movies, you can reshoot if a performance isn't good enough but stage dramas are live. You can't redo them. Edward and Sylvia are both very perceptive. Through the three characters in this drama, they reflect on the mentality of city folk and what they are after. Sylvia's script is very true to life and although it seems simple, it has different layers of meaning.
Do you and the character have anything in common?
