Former Mediacorp actress Felicia Chin is in a transnational marriage in Channel 8’s new collection I Do, Do I? and there’s heartbreak, parental disapproval, separation and a miscarriage.
However the 39-year-old star, who’s herself in a transnational marriage, says her personal actuality is far much less dramatic. She married Shanghai-born Singapore-based actor Jeffrey Xu in 2022, after seven years of relationship.
Requested if their relationship ever bumped into difficulties attributable to cultural variations, she recounts visiting Xu’s household in Shanghai early on of their courtship in the course of the Chinese language New 12 months interval.
Typical of Shanghainese hospitality, she was plied with a variety of meals and ended up feeling unwell and vomiting.
“It was my first time assembly his prolonged household and I wished to go away a superb impression, so I ate all the pieces, and I landed within the hospital over Chinese language New 12 months. It was so inauspicious,” Chin recollects with fun over a cellphone name with The Straits Instances.
She provides: “I did marry somebody from a unique cultural background, however since we’re each Chinese language, our backgrounds are nearer. Within the collection, I’m with an Italian man, and that’s actually a conflict between East and West.”
In I Do, Do I? – a collection concerning the challenges of transnational marriages – Chin performs a Singaporean whose Italian fiance (Singapore-based Canadian actor Jason Godfrey) strikes to Singapore to marry her. The collection premieres on Channel 8 on Dec 21 at 9pm, and can also be accessible on mewatch.
That is Chin’s first full-length drama since leaving Mediacorp in 2022 to create social media content material for a faith-based non-profit organisation. She was drawn by the drama’s multicultural theme and solid, and took three months of no-pay go away to movie it.
The collection additionally stars former Ok-pop woman group Skarf’s Singaporean member Ferlyn Wong, as a Korean married to a Singaporean man, and Thai actress Panitsara Yang as a Thai bride.
Chin says: “I practically thought I used to be filming an English drama the primary week on set as a result of so many scenes have been between Jason and me. We have been talking English the entire time. We even have a Korean actress who performs a grandma and a Thai actress in one of many key roles. It’s very fascinating.”
Her character goes on an intense emotional journey within the collection, experiencing heartbreak, an surprising being pregnant and a miscarriage.
Chin, who doesn’t have a baby but, says she and Xu, 35, need children.
“Hopefully, there shall be excellent news to share quickly, however no stress. I feel it’s most necessary for us to take excellent care of ourselves and strengthen our relationship as a pair as a result of the most effective reward a baby can have is a pair of secure, loving dad and mom.”
She is just not too fussed about getting pregnant at her age. She says: “I don’t need to go down the route of worrying. I consider infants are a present and we are going to let nature take its course.”
And she or he has some good luck charms by her facet – child garments given by her pal, which she has positioned in her bed room.
“I’m not superstitious, but it surely’s a cute gesture,” she says.
The previous yr has marked necessary modifications for Chin. Not solely did she settle into a brand new job, however she additionally acquired hitched and commenced residing with Xu for the primary time.
However her followers ought to be completely happy to be taught that appearing stays necessary to her.
“The non-profit and I at all times had the understanding that I’d sometimes take break day to behave. I nonetheless really feel I’m a part of the business, and it’s at all times good to have publicity. Appearing is one thing I gained’t let go of. It’s the place my roots lie,” she says.
Whereas the title of her upcoming drama strikes an ambivalent notice with regard to marriage, Chin herself is all in.
She says: “The evening earlier than I acquired married, I used to be in my resort room wanting on the large mattress and considering, ‘Man, I’m undecided if I can get used to this different particular person being in my mattress every single day to any extent further.’ However lately, I informed Jeffrey, ‘I can’t think about waking up with out you subsequent to me.’”
- I Do, Do I? premiered on Channel 8 on Dec 21 at 9pm and can also be accessible on mewatch.
This text was initially revealed in The Straits Instances.
Supply: Her World