After walking away from Mediacorp in 2000, Peter Yu finally gets his movie break

Peter Yu plays investigator Lok in award-winning drama A Land Imagined. PHOTO: AKANGA FILM, MM2 ENTERTAINMENT
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After a decade at Mediacorp, Peter Yu walked away in 2000. The Channel 8 actor and Star Awards finalist wanted to see what the wider world had to offer. And see he did.

He busied himself selling cars, property and stocks. He drove a taxi.

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