Actress Rui En says her tomboy personality makes it easy for her to play a man in new series

Rui En plays a mysterious woman whose body is inhabited by the souls of two other characters in drama series Mister Flower. PHOTO: MEDIACORP
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SINGAPORE - Local actress Rui En says her innate tomboy personality made things both easy and difficult for her on the set of her new drama series Mister Flower.

The 39-year-old star plays Huahua, a mysterious woman whose body is inhabited by the souls of two other characters - a misogynistic man played by Shane Pow and a vapid young woman played by Hong Ling - over the course of the series.

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