| J: No need. I just feel… right… H: What’s right? J: I don’t want to think anymore H: Right, right, right. J: Mentioning names makes me feel uncomfortable. H: Its Jackie Cheung isn’t it? This issue of being impolite J: Right. ( this is followed by preview of scenes from the next interview) Back to Studio: H: Right, right, right. J: Mentioning names makes me feel uncomfortable. H: Its Jackie Cheung isn’t it? This issue of being impolite J: Right. H: This is too ridiculous, isn’t it? J: But, what I have to say is I really understand the duties of a newcomer. They were right when they said I really like brother Jackie. To be very honest, I like him a lot. He is really very nice. When I see him I look up at him with that kind of respect and treat him as an older brother. But when you treat a person with this attitude, and then you see in the papers…you will really feel… (shakes his head) H: right. J: Actually, let me put it like this, I consider brother Jackie as one of my idols, because before, I really liked his songs. I always sing them at the KTV H: Singing till you can’t anymore… J: Right. This kind of person, whom I greatly respect… and then to have the media write that I treated him like this. For him, it’s also an insult, while it was a kind of an injury for me. Moreover, at that time, it was one of the most exhausting moments at the start of my career. I have already talked with the company and told them I was deeply affected by that article. Not because of what they wrote, it’s only that I felt that they all never saw all I gave, all my efforts, and then they use this… this… H: I know. J: So vulgar… they probably heard a rumor, but they can still do this… write it into a … H: Interpreting things from context, right? J: There is no way I can accept each and every word they said . I don’t know… H: At that time, you really wanted the company to help you to deal with it, right? J: At that time I really wanted to, because I felt no one could possibly understand the pain I was going through. At that time, I was still shooting a film, doing concerts and practicing dance moves. Everyday, I had to practice dancing for more than 10 hours, followed by more shooting. At that time, I didn’t have any time to rest. .Under those circumstances, you…it’s as if, Fang Sister, think about it, sometimes, because of a certain thing, you exert all your efforts to do it well, you try so hard, then feel so very tired afterwards. In the end, the result of all your efforts was criticized as a mere nothing. What would you think? How could you have let yourself be drawn into all this ? I feel it is very difficult. It’s like saying OK, you recently released this book; actually, in the beginning, when they brought it up, I totally disagreed. Really. I was very insistent. The thought of writing a book never entered my mind because I felt basically, I had neither the qualifications, nor the capability for it. In the end, did you know what moved me to agree? Later on I felt… they said that my being in the middle of all this, coming into this circle, then having many setbacks and then your overall feelings towards this big environment. Afterwards, how I … how I strived to accomplish some things… but because so few people know about it….despite all these setbacks… in the book I mentioned… its my wish to be able to share with others. You know that a person needs encouragement. Like me, I like to read books about pursuing a goal with perseverance. Sometimes, I feel that I have failed. But reading these books, you see people with defects, and how they were able to overcome their shortcomings? Do you know how much I want to look at their pictures? They will really them touch your spirit. You will feel that in this society, seeing so much bad news and many one-sided reports. But why can’t you let…I would rather let myself be constantly connected to those people who, against all odds, were able to overcome their own failures. Therefore, I felt, that if my book can achieve this purpose, I would be very happy to be able to do it. Narration: Talking about being misunderstood and not being able to do anything about it, Jerry Yen has this all out motivation because he could never understand the hardship that comes for the price of fame . Why does it sometimes become an insult, like going through twists and turns. Already more than 20 years in his life’s journey, he has completely seen the hundred facets of coldness in this world since his childhood because of worries about their family’s financial conditions. His only concern is now to see his mother to smile… Back to Studio: H: Your personality has always been like that. J: Right. Because in this world… actually, I have always been like that ever since I was small. I have always wanted to pay attention to matters which are not of my concern, to speak the truth. And because ever since I was in grade school, high school, I was class president. So, it’s possible that my personality is… H: Always fighting for what’s right J: Right, you get used to saying some words if there is something you cannot stand. Sometimes if you feel something is wrong, you will become like a mother hen thinking of minding some matters. In fact, one day, I happened to see in the streets a man as if wanting to hit a girl. I couldn’t take it and thought, right, no matter how wrong the girl is, he should not raise a hand against her. Even though its her fault, a scolding would do. You should never hit her. At that time, it was also because of this that I got off the bus and argued with the man. Later on, my friend pulled me away and said your doing this isn’t right at all. You are an artist. But I said, I felt I wasn’t caught stealing anyone’s things or took someone’s things by force … |