‘Crazy Rich Asians’ stars liven up Singapore film festival
SINGAPORE: Crazy Rich Asians stars were on hand to liven up the opening night events for the 29th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival proved.
Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan, who will celebrate the 15th anniversary of his seminal debut feature 15: The Movie at the festival, walked the red carpet with festival executive director Yuni Hadi.
Other luminaries included The Hush actors Adele Wong, Jason Godfrey and Irene Ang. The guest of honour was Tan Kiat How, chief executive of industry regulator, the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore.
Causing a stir with fans were local Crazy Rich Asians stars Fiona Xie, a vision in Fendi, Constance Lau in a Stylease gown, Charles & Keith shoes and her mum’s pearls, and Amy Cheng in a Jo Kilda outfit and Bern Sovereign Culture shoes.
“The key to this entire (Crazy Rich Asians phenomenon) is that nobody expected anything,” Xie told Variety.
“It was like a huge summer camp gone viral. We are so excited that Singapore was put on the map.
“I just came back from Beijing. We hope to spread the love to even more people throughout the world and tell our Singapore story.”
Lau continued in similar vein. “All of us did it for our love of film and acting. We never expected it to be such a hit. “It is very overwhelming,” she said.
The festival opened with the South East Asian premiere of Taiwanese noir Cities of Last Things.