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Born with the name Kuang Ngai Yi (鄺毅怡),Wong He changed his name upon entering the industry. During his career at TVB, Wong He was often ‘criticized’ for changing scripts and was once implicated by Virginia Lok as being a ‘troublesome employee’. Asked whether he will miss TVB or is reluctant to leave, Wong He answers unhesitatingly: “No!”

** ** The below are Wong He’s own words as recorded by the reporter (continued from previous article):

Back when I first joined TVB and started filming series, I noticed that the scripts had a lot of repetitious, sloppy dialogue…I wanted to help polish up the scripts a bit, as I understood that sometimes one script would be written by 5 or 6 different scriptwriters and so at times, there could be inconsistencies with writing style, flow of the storyline, as well as character development. To me, an artist is the last person ‘guarding the gate’, sort of like a quality control person – I didn’t want an oversight by the scriptwriter to cause the character to be ruined, so I would often make some modifications to my own character, usually modifying the dialogue so that the character makes more sense. Unfortunately, this intention was misinterpreted and later turned into the ‘big sin’ of always changing other people’s scripts.

Nonconformity often gets punished

Back when I filmed the first "Burning Flame" installment, my character was accepted by audiences and I became ‘popular’, however rumors started to circulate that I was arrogantly trying to ‘teach’ veteran actress Law Koon Lan (TN: she played Wong He’s mother in the series) how to act! Due to our roles, of course we had a lot of mother/son scenes together, so it was important to communicate closely – Law Koon Lan understood the truth and neither one of us allowed the rumors to affect us, otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to do the emotional crying scenes so realistically. Later on, when I was filming "Burning Flame 3", I was on location shooting a difficult scene with mudslides and all – some reporters came to visit and one of them asked for my response toward a situation that had occurred. He told me that Virginia Lok had accepted an interview with a radio show hosted by Sandra Ng and during the interview, she implied that Wong He is a ‘difficult to handle’ artist. I remember my response to the reporter at the time was: “Virginia Lok never ‘handled’ me, so how would she know that I’m ‘difficult to handle’?” Then I told that reporter to go ask artists who were ‘handled’ by her instead.

Later on, it was misunderstood that I purposefully terminated my contract with TVB. In reality, ever since I signed a new contract with TVB in 2006, it has been in effect for the past 5 years and only expires in September of this year. Whether there will be any more collaborations with TVB in the future, it’s very hard to say – the artists are usually the passive ones.

80 lines of dialogue

You ask me what type of effect being associated with Mr. Chan has on me and what type of jobs I’ve been getting after he was arrested in March 2010? Well, in the sitcom "Some Day", I was supposed to be in 80 episodes, but in the end, I only got less than 80 lines of dialogue. Then, in 2009, after filming the series "Twilight Investigation", I did not receive any more series to film – it wasn’t until later that the department in charge of variety shows and special programs (completely separate from the drama department) contacted me and asked me to film 2 variety specials, "Three Gorges" and "Hong Kong Back Then". Everyone can see that I didn’t get any other jobs from them! You ask me if I will miss TVB or if I’m reluctant to leave them? I can absolutely tell you: No!

Source: Oriental Daily
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics Forum