AsiaOne chats with Desmond Ng, Nick Teo, Shaun Chen and Elvin Ng on the set of upcoming drama Emerald Hill in Batu Pahat, Malaysia. Who’s the “smartest” in the show and who’s the bad boy? Why is wearing singlets unforgettable to Desmond, and who would survive living in the 1960s?
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00:00A guy that she sees a lot of qualities in him.
00:02It means that he is actually a very capable and very good guy.
00:06And that's me.
00:14Hello, Asia One viewers.
00:16I'm Desmond Huang.
00:18Hello, Asia One viewers.
00:19I'm Chen Hongyu.
00:20Hello, I'm Zhang Yikai.
00:22Hello, Asia One.
00:23I'm Alvin Ng.
00:24We are now in Malaysia, Batu Pahat filming.
00:30In the show, I do a cameo role.
00:34My name is Chen Donghao.
00:36So basically, he's a very good worker.
00:38He's a very good manager.
00:39And he runs the place very well.
00:41And he's the right-hand man of the second brother in the show.
00:46Other than that, in terms of love,
00:49my love interest is with Sheila.
00:52And she plays the role of Yin Niang,
00:55which is the daughter in the Zhang family.
01:00So she is very forward-thinking.
01:03And for someone to like a guy
01:06that she sees a lot of qualities in him,
01:08it means that he is actually a very capable and very good guy.
01:12And that's me.
01:16I play the role of Zhang Jinghai in North Mountain.
01:22I'm his father.
01:24I play the role of a general manager.
01:27But this kind of manager is...
01:29I can't say it's useless.
01:30It's just that he doesn't like to deal with things.
01:34I play the role of Zhang Yaozhu in the show.
01:37And my father is the eldest son.
01:39So I'm the eldest grandson of the Zhang family.
01:42He doesn't care about the company.
01:44So I've been working very hard to get his approval.
01:47In the film, Little Mermaid,
01:49I play Kang Zhijie.
01:51He's a little bad guy.
01:58Because the role Romeo played was my brother-in-law,
02:01so I actually have a lot of scenes with him.
02:03It's all about doing something that shouldn't be done in the dark.
02:08If you want to know, just look forward to it.
02:11And then we'll talk about some more formal things in his office.
02:15It's a little bit of a dark thing.
02:17So it's going to go back and forth.
02:20That's how we find out how bad we've done.
02:22So you have to watch it.
02:24This is Batu Bahan.
02:25This is our company.
02:29It's a general company of Yongli Hang.
02:31I have an office here.
02:32There's a second brother and a younger brother's office here.
02:35We'll talk about some business.
02:37And then some of the things that happened at home will be here.
02:40You can see that it's all ancient.
02:42And it's all in the 1950s and 1960s.
02:45So it's very rare.
02:46And I think it's kept pretty well.
02:48So you can look forward to it.
02:52This is the company of our Zhang family.
02:55And we sell wine.
02:57So there's also a warehouse here, which is where I work.
03:01I filmed from the 1950s to 1960s to 1970s.
03:03In the 1970s, I had a mustache.
03:05In the 1950s, I was younger.
03:07I had to play half my age, my real age.
03:09So it's a bit tougher.
03:10I had to look more innocent, naive and all bright.
03:12So today's scene was me being called to the office by my immediate superior.
03:18And then he would ask me,
03:20Oh, I heard you are quite close with my sister.
03:22We are a love interest and we play tennis together.
03:25But because Tong Hao comes from a very more humble family,
03:30there's a big discrepancy in terms of social status.
03:33So yeah, that's where their love might face problems.
03:38And he might not actually pursue this because it's so dangerous.
03:42The family is all a bit dramatic and crazy and things happen, you know.
03:46Yeah, someone's going to kill somebody.
03:48So luckily, I'm not yet inside.
03:49Maybe towards the end, I'll come back.
03:51So actually, I am the smartest.
03:53I go all the way to the end.
03:59I perfectly would survive the era,
04:02other than having to wear a lot of cloth and it was so hot.
04:05Because I'm not someone who needs a lot of technology.
04:09I like to feel the real situation.
04:10I like to observe the environment.
04:12I actually don't like to look at my phone so much
04:16because it's an era where it's more close-knit.
04:21It feels a bit more real and passionate, a bit less filtered.
04:26Our world today, social media, a lot of it is so filtered.
04:29So I think it's nice to feel that realness, that rawness, that uneditedness.
04:47I think it's a bit difficult.
04:49Because we're used to having internet and mobile phones.
04:53If you go online and search for something, it's all there.
04:58And most importantly,
05:00look at me now, I'm sweating a lot.
05:02So actually, I can't do it.
05:04Because I don't think there was air-conditioning before.
05:06I can't stand it.
05:07In the past, our earth was a bit cooler.
05:10It wasn't as hot as it is now.
05:11There was no global warming.
05:17When we were filming this drama,
05:20we were all wearing more formal clothes.
05:23We were all wearing more formal clothes.
05:25Sometimes I was wondering why we had to wear singlets inside.
05:30Wearing backpacks.
05:32They were so detailed.
05:34So sometimes when we were changing clothes,
05:37we looked over and everyone was wearing singlets.
05:40I thought it was quite interesting.
05:43We actually took a few photos.
05:45We were wearing suits and singlets.
05:47We were just walking around.
05:49I think it was quite special.
05:50It's something that I will never forget in the future.
05:53With the actors,
05:55my immediate superior in the show is Xiu from Taiwan.
05:59It was interesting to exchange views with him.
06:02We get along well, you know.
06:03So it's really nice.
06:05And Xiu is actually younger than me.
06:09But the first time he came, I called him Brother Kai.
06:12I called him Brother, Elder Brother.
06:14Because in the show, he's my superior.
06:16So I assumed that he's probably older than me.
06:18But actually I realized,
06:19oh, he's like two years younger than me.
06:20And I called him Brother, you know.
06:22So, yeah, out of respect.
06:24But with the actors,
06:26I think it's really nice filming in Malaysia.
06:29My cameo role, most of the scenes are in Malaysia.
06:32Thank you, Asia One.
06:33I hope everyone can support
06:35Little Nyonya's Emerald Hill.
06:37All right, Asia One.
06:38So when Emerald Hill comes out in 2025,
06:41we'll see you and take care.
06:43Thank you, Asia One.
06:44Please support Little Nyonya's Emerald Hill.
06:48Bye-bye.