Actress Jeanette Aw tapping her biggest regret for her directorial debut

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Ten years ago, Singaporean actress Jeanette Aw was in the midst of filming a television serial when her godmother, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died.

The ache of not being by her godmother's side still remains, she tells The Straits Times in Tokyo, and she has tapped what is "still the biggest regret of my life" for her first directorial effort, The Last Entry.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 19, 2018, with the headline Actress Jeanette Aw tapping her biggest regret for her directorial debut. Subscribe