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How success cast its Van Ness Wu’s spell on ‘clean’ living Harry The actor-singer says he can be a party animal without drinking or Potter smoking - and remain celibate, too BY RACHAEL BOON of the styling, the look of the drama is very 3 What is the one trait you deplore most The Straits Times/ ANN different from what audiences have seen.” in yourself? He was in Singapore last weekend to Hmm... that I’m a perfectionist? Well, I star embers of hit boybands who go solo perform at Ion Orchard’s first-anniversary come down hard on myself a lot. It’s my best either spin off a successful individual outdoor concert. He sang Soldier, his latest and worst trait. Mcareer or find out that they cannot Japanese single, and Do It, a song from his 4 What is the one thing you hate being mma Watson has step out of the group’s long shadow. new Mandarin album to be released next asked about by reporters and what would told of her shock F4 (now called JVKV) member Van month. you do if I asked you right now? Eat discovering Ness Wu has certainly done the former. Speaking to Life! in the presidential suite That’s okay because you haven’t asked He and the other three members of the she was a multi-million- at Royal Plaza On Scotts hotel the day it yet. If you ask it, then I’m not going to like group - , Jerry Yen and - before, the former bad boy is a picture of it. airess thanks to her shot to fame in 2001, thanks to hit zen, punctuating his sentences with words No, I’m joking. Taiwanese idol drama which such as “blessed” and “praise”. Relationships. I don’t like talking about is based on Japanese manga Hana Yori His pious streak gels with the renewal of them because it crosses the boundary of Dango. his Christian faith in 2008, after which he just talking about me. It’s not because I want Emma Watson photographed The group were renamed in 2007 to famously swore off pre-marital sex. the limelight on me but it’s to honour and by Mario Testino for the avoid confusion because Japan had filmed Currently single, he wants the world to know respect the other person and her privacy. its own TV series in 2005 based on the December 2010 edition of that he does not wish to make out with any 5 If you saw an attractive girl in public Brown University in Rhode same manga, and had its own F4. actress in movies. you like, what would you do? Vogue. Island. The F4 name comes from the manga. He says: “Who do I want to make out Nothing. I don’t know what there is to do. Wu’s bandmates are also active in the ing on an allowance of just It is such stoic self con- with? I want to make out with my wife, that’s If I see a really pretty girl, I would admire her trol that led her to ban her- TV drama scene in , with Chu in real.” from a distance and praise God for creating £50 a week. “By the third or Momo Love (2009), Chou in Black & White 1 How can you be a party animal and such a beautiful woman. fourth film, the money was self from reading the (2009) and Yen in Down With Love (2010). still remain celibate? If I get introduced to her... then that’s a starting to get serious,” she tabloids. But of the four, it is Wu - better known for I go partying, clubbing, karaoke-ing till different story (laughs). his dancing - who scored the biggest ratings said. “I had no idea. I felt “There’s tons that’s not the sun comes up. I just don’t drink or smoke 6 Do you fear that your career is going very nice and I’m very, very with his 2009 drama, Autumn’s Concerto. It but I still love to party. to be like a meteor and flame out some day? sick, very emotional.” was one of the top-rated dramas in Taiwan, It’s about real joy and laughter from the I believe everybody’s career is like that. The actress, 20, who was self critical, so it was like a hitting 8.2 per cent ratings at its peak. relationships we have, and we tell jokes and And that’s what makes it exciting and lets cast in Harry Potter at the drug for me,” she said. In it, the American-born, Taiwan-based stuff like that. you learn, grow, love, appreciate and cher- actor- singer played a lawyer who loses his age of nine, confessed to Watson told how she Granted, some people don’t think the ish. decided to experiment with memory and forgets his long-suffering girl- way I think and feel the way I feel, but they 7 Being no stranger to Singapore, what being “straight and boring” friend. are still my friends - people I care about, love do you love about it? in an interview with the her new elfin hairdo after Wu looks set to repeat the feat with his and cherish. Food, no doubt. I love the curry in December issue of Vogue being released from her new drama, Material Queen, helmed by It’s not about the alcohol, it’s not about Singapore. Autumn’s producer Chen Yu-shan and magazine. contract, which banned her getting wasted. So to me, when I laugh, I am Also, I’ve been to the Ion mall several from wearing heavy make- director Chen Hui-ling. The cast finished truly laughing and that makes it 10 times times and I love its architecture. I’m very She has barely touched filming in Paris recently and the show is in more wonderful than anything. excited to be part of the opening of the up or getting her ears role as Hermione in the her estimated £20 million production in Taiwan. 2 Would you rather stay permanently in rooftop (which has an observation deck pierced during the Harry Lynn Xiong, who is Hong Kong singer Harry Potter films. fortune, for which she was Taiwan or America? called Ion Sky at 218m high). Aaron Kwok’s girlfriend, stars as his love named Hollywood’s highest Potter shooting schedule. I’m based in Taiwan but I’m moving my For me, I love rooftops because the She was 17 or 18 when interest. Even the crew is star-studded as way into America as well. I hope to be based scene and view you get from up there is her father sat her down for paid female in Vanity Fair the stylist is Patricia Field from American TV in America next year or in 2012 because my amazing. © The Telegraph the “money conversation”. earlier this year. She chose series Sex And The City. family (Wu is the youngest of three children 8 Complete this sentence: If you could Group London 2010 Wu, 32, says: “I play a violinist and it’s a Until then she had been liv- instead to live in student and his parents are divorced) is in America. live your life all over again... love story between the struggling musician digs while studying at That’s why I’m always moving back and I would live it the way Jesus did, from and a gold-digging model (Xiong). Because forth. the very beginning.

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