SINGAPORE - In March 2021, Singaporean actors Aileen Tan and Romeo Tan flew quietly to Taiwan, where they had to quarantine for two weeks for just a few days of filming in the port city of Keelung.
Their hush-hush project? One episode of the genre-blending Taiwanese anthology series Twisted Strings, which is executive-produced by auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien (The Assassin, 2015) and written and directed by Golden Horse Award nominee Huang Xi (Missing Johnny, 2017).
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