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Post by inyaface on May 10, 2007 4:56:27 GMT -5
Seems like a lot of famous celebrities in many parts of Asia are eurasian.Have you ever/or ever wanted to go back to your "asian country" and try you luck in the entertainment business??? I have! But never actually dared to try! ;D
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Damn it's good to be Eurasian. Scot/HK Chinese living in HK and doing a great deal of damage.
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Post by Rookie on May 10, 2007 5:10:48 GMT -5
Been asked here in HK a few times - but to be honest if you really want to make a go of it, u need to give up your day job. Risky stuff...
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Post by halfbreed on May 10, 2007 5:34:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it'd be cool I reckon. ;D In Singapore last year this guy approached me and asked me if I wanted to model. My mother and I went to check out the agency and it was
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Post by rob on May 10, 2007 5:54:25 GMT -5
Why do you guys want to be a model/actress in Asia? Just the idea of being a celebrity? I have friends that work in the industry (my brother did at one point and when i wasn't so darn hideous I got suckered into a commercial). The hours suck. Totally irregular and most don't make much money at all. In fact, even if you get signed up by a TV outfit (e.g., TCS in Singapore, ABS-CBN in Phils or TVB in HK) you have to do side gigs like hosting (and dating rich dudes )to make a decent salary. Staying power is another issue. For acting/modelling, if you're a girl, you're done at 26/27 and a guy might make it to 30.... and those are the lucky ones. Language is another thing. There are a ton of EAs that return to Asia to try and be famous. The only ones that have a real chance are the ones that speak the local language. If you're just "hot" and nothing else you're stuck modelling underwear for the local department store chain or serving up shooters for free at bars on "Jose Cuervo" night. Hey, if its what you want, go for it. But do talk to as many ppl in the industry as you can so you know what you're getting into. As a general rule, I'd say focus on your studies and your primary career and pursue this stuff on the side.
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Post by thekrez on May 10, 2007 6:04:43 GMT -5
pfffft every man and his dog thinks they can be a model in asia. unfortunately most people can.
even i was approached to do an ad for SIA (i declined) and im about as pretty as a hatful of bums. i had a caucasian friend and he was just alright looking and even he did a few ads.
if you can though go for it. its unlikely you would make a career of it though unless youre a special few. also ive heard the payment process for most of those jobs is insanely long. its usually 2-3 months later that you get paid for jobs.
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Post by cewek on May 10, 2007 6:11:58 GMT -5
Lots of the celebrities in indonesia are eurasian. I think the succesful ones actually have to live there, speak indonesian and act local but at the same time be " exotic" . We were approached by some agent lady with a business card here in sydney ( for my son) - and they openly said they were looking for a multiracial " look" . We declined. Actually last week my son was upset because some one at school said all asians suck and are bad sports,and he was half asian so he sucked too - and he was asking why he had to be asian-and I ended up telling him that people were probably jealous because of his looks because eurasians are better looking- which I always never wanted to say because , I dont know why, I just sort of have this aversian to reinforcing that beauty myth thing over the person inside etc etc - but s***, it was the easiest thing to say.
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Post by helles on May 10, 2007 7:24:27 GMT -5
my bf gets stopped frequently out in HK, they seem to like his drunk 'look'.
we went to a couple of castings and did this awful 'acting' showreel thing. suprisingly, nothing came of it.
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Post by inyaface on May 10, 2007 7:35:02 GMT -5
Been asked here in HK a few times - but to be honest if you really want to make a go of it, u need to give up your day job. Risky stuff... Exactly! If you really wanna try,I feel like u have to give up "everything".You really have to give it a 100 % to even have a chance of beinge one og those who can actually be a model/ actress on a full-time basis. My uncle has a job at Grammy entertainment in Thailand,and has ever since I was a little girl wanted me to try to do commercials and stuff.But to be honest,NOW im really glad that my mum always said no,and always wanted me to think of school first And really,I mean even if you get a good deal somewhere in asia and get to model and be in films,the pay is probably not that good?? In the long term you'd probably be better of having a good education and getting a good job somewhere in Europe...?
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Post by yongfook on May 10, 2007 8:17:48 GMT -5
there is no free meal ticket. if you want to be a successful local actress / model, you have to work your f***ing arse off and for what? Like rob said, the money is laughable in the early stages and then once you've been in the industry a couple of years *bang* sorry, you're too old now and you'll have to go back to the career that you left behind and hope that it hasn't done the same to you.
To get anywhere you need to be well represented and that means joining an agency. An agency is basically your professional pimp and depending on the country, the contract arrangements regarding pay can be so low as to make you wonder why anyone does it. Japan especially has a very unattractive system for all the local talento - they are basically employed by the agency and the agency pays them a salary. The agency then has power of attorney over their soul and whores them out as much as they can (tv hosting, commercials, posters, local appearances etc etc). The talento doesn't get X% of the fee or whatever, they just get their salary - and there have been several highly publicised examples of local celebs who you think should be well-off who are basically struggling to pay their bills. I think they did a documentary about it once and there was this one comedian guy who was living off cup ramen. It was really sad. You just want to ask them why.
I've done a couple of modeling jobs in Tokyo (one in a national campaign) just as favours to friends and I can't imagine why somebody would want to stand in front of a camera for 6 hours each day in the same pose, sucking in their gut and sticking out their chest. I felt like it was a giant waste of time and certainly the monetary compensation was nothing spectacular. Some nice pocket money.
As rob said, concentrate on a more conventional career. It will do you a much greater service in the long run. If you want to model, do it on the side.
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Post by 0 on May 10, 2007 10:14:31 GMT -5
Does stripper count?
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Post by Freecia on May 10, 2007 10:20:41 GMT -5
No because:
I look normal.
I can't lie, I meant act.
I'm fatter than the average models.
I'm too short.
I'm too smart. lol
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Post by catgirl on May 10, 2007 12:58:52 GMT -5
Some photographers have asked me if I have considered modelling....But....Not my thing really. I guess you would have to like it alot though. I could consider doing something just for fun though, but not anything too serious, lol.
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Post by cinnamoroll on May 10, 2007 13:06:11 GMT -5
its unlikely you would make a career of it though unless youre a special few. also ive heard the payment process for most of those jobs is insanely long. its usually 2-3 months later that you get paid for jobs. Yea, I always cringe when I hear girls say they're turning modelling into a career. It's so short-lived, unreliable and erratic. It should nearly always (except for internationally famous models, who model for Vogue, walk in Milan, Paris etc....) be a part time/side thing. This in itself is difficult to manage because castings/jobs are at RANDOM hours so you have to stop whatever you're doing and go, and if you have a day job that is simply not possible unless you want to get fired. Some nice pocket money. As rob said, concentrate on a more conventional career. It will do you a much greater service in the long run. If you want to model, do it on the side. Exactly. Teenage girls are often thrown off and flattered by being signed to an agency that they abandon all studies and call themselves models. Tres, tres, tres dangereux! But modelling is not all that bad, it pays more in experience than in money in my opinion. But you always gotta be careful because it's a dirty business and there are a lot of creeps out there...
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Post by catgirl on May 10, 2007 13:47:08 GMT -5
its unlikely you would make a career of it though unless youre a special few. also ive heard the payment process for most of those jobs is insanely long. its usually 2-3 months later that you get paid for jobs. Yea, I always cringe when I hear girls say they're turning modelling into a career. It's so short-lived, unreliable and erratic. It should nearly always (except for internationally famous models, who model for Vogue, walk in Milan, Paris etc....) be a part time/side thing. This in itself is difficult to manage because castings/jobs are at RANDOM hours so you have to stop whatever you're doing and go, and if you have a day job that is simply not possible unless you want to get fired. Some nice pocket money. As rob said, concentrate on a more conventional career. It will do you a much greater service in the long run. If you want to model, do it on the side. Exactly. Teenage girls are often thrown off and flattered by being signed to an agency that they abandon all studies and call themselves models. Tres, tres, tres dangereux! But modelling is not all that bad, it pays more in experience than in money in my opinion. But you always gotta be careful because it's a dirty business and there are a lot of creeps out there... yes, the business is kind of dirty I have, meaning the big business. I know a girl who became kind of a supermodel, and I think shes fed up with unserious people she has worked with, so now she is very critical when picking who she wants to work with.
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Post by penguinopolipitese on May 10, 2007 14:12:14 GMT -5
I like a quiet life
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