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This year Raymond has 3 series "The Master of Tai Chi", "Moonlight Resonances" and "The Four" that aired, ranging from Pre-Modern to Modern and then going from Modern to Ancient. He'll be depending on his role Goon Ka Jai in "Moonlight Resonance" to become the TV King this year, he is also a hot choice, chances are high.

Raymond said in high confidence: "Each year during the anniversary I hope to get something, this year I won a lot of audiences hearts and besides that I have also learned a lot. The award I definitely hope for! I put a lot of effort into filming, my performance is not bad. Within the series, "Tai Chi" is one of my favorites, I keep it in my series collection; "Goon Ka Jai" the role was difficult to portray because he's just way too nice, need to be careful on how to display emotions. But, this year I'm most satisfied with being able to play different types of roles, from ancient to pre-modern to modern. I hope that the audience will like."

Portraying "Goon Ka Jai" Lots of Effort

As to Goon Ka Jai's role could either bring him the TV King title and the Most Favorite Character award, Raymond said: "At the beginning I was worried that audiences were too absorbed in Heart of Greed's Ching Leung. But in reality the two characters are not the same and they don't have any connection, fortunately when the series first aired, audiences quickly adapted to the new series. Have to give credit to the scriptwriters for the hard work and also to the whole entire crew's hard work and contribution to the series!"

How did he shape the personality of Goon Ka Jai? Raymond said: "Earlier I never played this type of character before, I was very worried that I would not create a comfortable feeling to the audience, and not to mention convincing. The way was to pay attention to every move. I'm very happy that friends and family praised my performance because I originally am not that type of person. This successful portrayal of Goon Ka Jai definitely includes blood and sweat."

Broadcast department did not deliberately arranged what it did

When audiences were chasing for the finale of "Moonlight", TVB arranged "The Four" to broadcast next and also his new album was also releasing at the same time. This caused Raymond's exposed to be at its maximum, audiences were so supportive that they became curious as to if TVB arranged for Raymond to get the TV King title this year. Raymond said: "It's not deliberately arranged for The Four to air after Moonlight. "The Four" had already completed its filming for some time and my album was in a rush for its release. Truthfully, since I've been in the industry until now, its rare for my series to release one after another, fortunately now I have an opportunity to show everyone another side of me."

Having dinner with Executives Very Normal

As for Raymond's road to the TV King title, he has been having rumors with Ha Yu, who also is in the race for the same title depending on the same series - Moonlight. As they were father and son in the series, this stirred up the name "Struggle between Father-Son".

There were reports that said Raymond invited Executives out for dinner, Ha Yu tried to exchange a contract for the award, the two both using their own strategies? Raymond said: "Having dinner with executives is often, its just that recently I'm free from filming series so I have some space in my schedule. Not just my colleagues or people in my company, later on I hope to invite some of my old classmates out for a gathering. As this year's finalist are all very strong, this year's male actors competition is very fierce."

Source: Mingpao
Credits: aZnangel @ AEU