Singaporean Golden Horse nominee Yong Ser Pin, 78, faces up to death in Last Rites

SINGAPORE – When veteran Singaporean actor Yong Ser Pin, 78, imagines who he might want to play in his final performance, he reaches for one of history’s titans – China’s last emperor Puyi, whose dramatic fall forever altered Chinese history, as immortalised in Bernardo Bertolucci’s film The Last Emperor (1987).

The actor, who was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for his role in 2019’s Wet Season, has also considered playing a cultural titan who has changed his life more intimately – the late doyen of Singapore theatre Kuo Pao Kun.