{"id":11361,"date":"2016-10-01T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wr\/?p=11361"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:05:10","slug":"id-like-to-know-sugie-phua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/id-like-to-know-sugie-phua\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019d Like To Know&#8230; Sugie Phua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you have a ritual as a performer?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Before every performance, I meditate for about 15 minutes. It helps me to calm down and to condition my body before I go on stage \u2013 especially in the theatre, because I have that long journey to go through as an actor. I used to always have cold hands, and meditating warms me up\u2026 it\u2019s like magic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What keeps you up at night?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>YouTube! Every night, I watch either basketball or stand-up comedy before I go to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You\u2019re throwing a dinner party for five guests \u2013 dead or alive, real or fictional. Whom would you invite?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I love basketball, so I would invite Michael Jordan \u2013 my all-time basketball hero. Stephen Chow, because I love his movies. Sebastian Tan, my&nbsp;<em>Monkey Goes West<\/em>&nbsp;director, because he loves to hang out and have a drink. Ash, so he can give me some tips on Pokemon hunting. And I would call upon Russell Peters to do a stand-up show for all of us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What\u2019s one of your pet peeves?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not easily irritated, actually. But I cannot take it when people have spinach on their teeth. I call it a \u2018<em>kangkong<\/em>&nbsp;check\u2019 \u2013 and I do one every time before we go on stage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>If you were entertaining a visitor from overseas, what\u2019s the one place in Singapore you\u2019d take them to?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the daytime, I\u2019d probably bring a visitor to the zoo \u2013 it\u2019s so clean and well-planned. Maybe the Night Safari at night&#8230; or Clarke Quay, since anyone who goes on holiday would want to check out the local nightspots. Lots of people visit Singapore because it\u2019s a melting pot of many cultures and countries, and you can see all of that when you go to Clarke Quay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who\u2019s your favourite actor?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Chow. I really love him a lot \u2013 I think I share this sentiment with many people! His comedy is really fantastic; he always brings out the most humour at the point of the highest tragedy. It intrigues me that a professor from Beijing has conducted a study on how Stephen Chow makes his films! A few directors and actors have replicated Stephen Chow\u2019s&nbsp;<em>mo lei tau<\/em>&nbsp;(\u65e0\u7406\u5934) comedy, but he was really the first one to create this entire genre of films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tell us about the theatrical experience that changed your life.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years back, I played the title character in&nbsp;<em>Lao Jiu: The Musical<\/em>&nbsp;with The Theatre Practice. For about half a year after the show ended, I still found myself affected by the role. There is a rawness and power in Kuo Pao Kun\u2019s script that touches people at a very basic level. For the longest time, I couldn\u2019t understand the character, who was willing to sacrifice his family in order to pursue his dreams. Family is everything to me, and I didn\u2019t realise how strongly I felt about that until I played this part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That production helped me realise that every piece of theatre allows me to get to know myself a little better. We all have questions in life that we push aside and that we don\u2019t face, occasionally for years. But theatre forces you to come to terms with these questions \u2013 otherwise your role wouldn\u2019t feel true to life. In every show I do, I encounter difficult questions that I have to answer for myself. A really good play makes you think, and makes you search for and come to know who you really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>If you could import something that you can\u2019t get in Singapore, what would it be?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Water honey peaches (\u6c34\u871c\u6843) from Taiwan! They\u2019re the best peaches I\u2019ve ever had in my whole life \u2013 so sweet and juicy. Maybe I love them so much because I\u2019m playing the Monkey King\u2026 You know, the other celestial beings ate&nbsp;<em>one<\/em>&nbsp;peach and got 10,000 years of life each \u2013 Monkey ate a whole garden of peaches! [laughs]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Sugie Phua have in common with the title character in Monkey Goes West? 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