Mark Lee ‘very much wants to win’ a Golden Horse Award

PUBLISHED: NOV 18, 2020

Singapore actor Mark Lee got a Best Leading Actor nomination for the Golden Horse Awards.

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The Taiwan competition is the most prestigious one in the Chinese-language cinema world. Mr Lee will find out if he won on Nov 21.

Lee got the nod for his performance in family film Number 1. He plays a retrenched manager who unwittingly gets a job as a drag queen, and discovers his talent and love for stage performances.

“Oh, okay.”

HIS INITIAL REACTION TO GETTING NOMINATED FOR A GOLDEN HORSE AWARD

“It slowly dawned on me only as people started sending me their congratulations that, wah, I got nominated for Best Leading Actor.”

MARK LEE

Lee said the cast trained with a drag performer and spent the first three days learning to sashay in high heels. He was even told to don female underwear.


“At first I was like, ‘Why? Who can see?’ I was very frustrated. But it’s a psychological thing. When you wear female underwear and see yourself in the mirror - you believe and you have to feel like you’re a woman.”

MARK LEE

HE FEELS THEIR PAIN

The film made Lee more aware of the social stigma drag performers face. He said: “They have to endure all these insults just by the nature of the job they do.”

Mr Lee flew to Taipei, where he underwent a 14-day quarantine, so he could attend the awards ceremony. He posted clips about the experience.

Lee says he “very much wants to win”. Jiayou and good luck!

GOING FOR GOLD
GOING FOR GOLD

SOURCE: ST REPORTS BY JAN LEE AND LIM RUEY YAN; VIDEOS BY MARKLEE4444/FACEBOOK, MM2 ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL/YOUTUBE AND TGHFF/FACEBOOK; PHOTOS BY MM2 ENTERTAINMENT, MARKLEE4444/FACEBOOK AND MARKLEE4444/INSTAGRAM

PRODUCED BY: DENISE CHONG

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