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

The former Mediacorp actor says taking on various jobs has put him in good stead to play a detective in A Land Imagined

Actor Peter Yu plays Detective Lok in director Yeo Siew Hua's award-winning drama, A Land Imagined.
Actor Peter Yu plays Detective Lok in director Yeo Siew Hua's award-winning drama, A Land Imagined. PHOTO: AKANGA FILM, MM2 ENTERTAINMENT
John Lui
Film Correspondent
Updated
Feb 21, 2019, 11:20 AM
Published
Feb 21, 2019, 05:00 AM
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After a decade at Mediacorp, Peter Yu walked away in 2000.

The Channel 8 actor wanted to see what the wider world had to offer.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 21, 2019, with the headline After walking away from Mediacorp in 2000, Peter Yu finaly gets his movie break. Subscribe

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