Chang Chen Urges Emerging Taiwanese Actors to ‘Be Like Water’ at Taiwan Creative Content Fest Golden Horse Showcase — SkimNews
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- Chang Chen, chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and last year’s Golden Horse best leading actor winner for “Lucky Lu,” addressed six of Taiwan’s rising performers at the Taipei showcase.
- Chang Chen said actors should be “like water,” changing shape for each vessel and adapting to the atmosphere and latitude of each production; he cited Wong Kar-wai and Hou Hsiao-hsien, along with Ang Lee’s advice to read autobiographies and inhabit varied characters.
- TCCF x The Golden Horse Awards: Taiwan Emerging Actors Showcase featured Bai Xiao-ying, Ho Man-xi, Rosen, Jimmy Liu, Ma Shih-yuan and Lin Yi-ting; all were Best New Performer nominees or winners from two consecutive Golden Horse cycles.
- Taiwan Creative Content Fest’s emerging-actors showcase aimed to connect the six performers with international creative teams, investors and media.
- Bai Xiao-ying, who began acting at 6 and is now a university film student, greeted the audience in Mandarin and Japanese after training in traditional Chinese martial arts for a decade.
- Ma Shih-yuan, last year’s Best New Performer winner for “Left-Handed Girl,” said that fully committing to a role lets audiences feel sincerity and gives others strength.
- Jimmy Liu, who has practiced taekwondo for seven years, said he wants to try comedy or villains; Bai Xiao-ying and Ma Shih-yuan voiced the same wish to break away from familiar casting.
Why it matters: For the six emerging performers, the showcase’s stated purpose was to connect them with international creative teams, investors and media. Chang framed versatility as the working standard, while several performers said they want comedy or villain roles beyond familiar casting.
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