Cris Horwang Archive

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Pictures from the 7th annual Kom Chad Luek awards

Pictures from the 7th annual Kom Chad Luek newspaper awards, you can see the complete winners list here or at Dirtii. The above picture from Bie Sukrit’s fanclub is of the winner circle: Bie was voted most popular actor, Pae Arak is up there because his lakorn with Aum “Jaew, Jai Rai Gub Khun Chai Taewada” was voted most popular lakorn, “Aum” Patcharapa Chaichuea was voted most popular actress. I don’t know how this happened, “Tui” Kiatkamol Latha was voted the Nation’s Popular Actor again for the 3rd year straight. If you can see him, “Ruj” Suparuj Taychathanon is standing behind Kob Suvanant, he was voted the most popular singer.

Chai and his girlfriend Vicky.

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Cris dances the salsa with Woody

I know very little about Cris Horwang other than the fact that she is the lead actress in “Bangkok Traffic Love story” with Ken Theeradeth. After watching Cris on the Woody’s show, she’s quite amusing. Some things I didn’t know about her:

1. she is a ballet instructor
2. she is a DJ for 104.5 Fat radio
3. a choreographer
4. she works for Chic Channel
5. And of course she is an actress slash model.

Lets just say she is one busy gal.

She started dancing ballet at the age of 5 after watching the film “Flash Dance”. Her father told her the dance type in the film was ballet when actually it was jazz. For 3 years now, she has been dating ‘Oui’ Natee Ekwijit of the Thai rap group Buddha Bless, you know the tall one with dye blonde hair. You can read more about her background here.

Back to the dance…they practiced for 40 minutes then they did it for real. Favorite part, Woody was chasing her up the stairs and got tired, really he wasn’t. It was a shameless plug for Bing soft drink. Tired from running up a flight of stairs, drink Bing soft drink. Voilà! You’re instantly energized.

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“Bangkok Traffic Love Story” is a hit!

Rejoice, Ken Theeradeth fans and old maids, “Bangkok Traffic Love Story” is a hit, easily surpassing the 100 million baht (roughly 2.9 million dollars) mark through the weekend. Quite a feat. I been hearing good things about this film, mostly from single women who held back tears because they can relate to Meylee (Cris Horwang)’s plight of being single at 30 and feeling lonely.

Check out Wise Kwai’s review of the film here.


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A special viewing of “Bangkok Traffic Love Story”


Yesterday, Ken’s new movie “Bangkok Traffic Love Story or I rode a skytrain to see you” held its special viewing at Central World. Of course, Ken brought his wife Noi as a date to this mini premier. I must say,  they are very adorable together. During the interview with the press, Noi did most of the talking while Ken attentively stand by her side adding tidbits here and there. As she gave her interview, he stared at her like a doting husband. You can watch the interview here. Their dynamic is quite interesting, their movements sync with each other like a true happily married couple.

With the reporters, Noi talked about the film, she liked it. If she wasn’t married, she would like the film much more. Many young women can relate to it. “It’s very watchable. I think young women will like this very much. I have never seen something like this before. After seeing it, it put a smile on my face. He seems pretty excited about it. If you’re not married yet, you would like it,” Noi said to the reporters in support of Ken’s film.

As for returning to acting in lakorns, Noi said not for a while. Reporters asked whether it is because Ken would not allow her to. Noi joked that is not the case at all. “He has given me permission already. At this point, you can say he is chasing me out to go work. Ken can’t handle it anymore, he’s tired. He wants to stay home and raise our child. I have not agreed to anything yet. I’m waiting. If something good appears, I’ll do it.”

Will you two ever do a lakorn together as a couple. In response, they both shook their heads ‘no’ , laughed, and said in unison: “never. We’re tired of seeing each other.” Noi then added, it would be odd.

As for trying for their second child, they are doing it naturally.Unplanned. When it happens, it will happen.

About their son Kunatum, has he reached that naughty stage yet, the reporters asked. “Somewhat,” said Noi. “He knows a lot more and is starting to talk. He can say ‘dad’ but not ‘mom’.”

The reporters then asked Noi whether she felt hurt by it. A little, Noi told the reporters. “He’s with me everyday and he never says ‘mom’. But when his dad comes home, he lights up. He misses his dad. But his first word was ‘milk’  or ‘mum’, something like that. He was cared for by his father that he is why he adores him.”

Ken is very proud that his son can say ‘papa’. In a doting way, Ken said, “he can say it very clearly too.”

On to the film…

According to a person who has seen it, it was good. They give it a 9/10. The film is light-hearted and uncomplicated, it will put a smile on your face. There is always something going on, it’s not a boring film, said the person. And Cris Horwang is convincing as Meylee, the 30 year old spinster. “I must admit, I like Cris Horwang very much. She was excellent, I have never followed her work before. Actually, I don’t even know who she is. I just knew her name. However, she was able to make me love and cheered on the Meylee character throughout the film, ” said a person at Pantip. We’ll see. I have to see the film for myself to decide, which won’t be for another few months.

The film will open nationwide on October 15, 2009.

See more pictures here.

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The teaser to “Bangkok’s Traffic Love Story”

Seriously! Is that the English title? Why can’t they just stick to the literal translation, “I rode a skytrain to see you.” Oh my cheese.

After seeing the teaser, I’m confident I will like it. One, I can relate to the main female character. I, too, am a spinster not as old as 30 but getting there. When you reach a certain age, the marriage question pops up a lot. “Are you married yet?” or “when are you going to get married, ” are two questions I frequently hear from people.  Honestly, I have never thought about it and the majority of the people I know don’t understand that concept. I know myself– marriage, having kids, a house, will never complete me. There is something about marriage I find suffocating. Many girls dream of their perfect wedding, I dream of traveling the world with no strings attached like a nomad.

In that aspect, the main female character played by Cris Horwang differs from me. Being a spinster is a sensitive issue for her. At weddings, she has this big tendency to drown herself with alcohol to suppress the misery of being ‘single’. When she meets Ken Theeradeth’s character Lung, an maintenance engineer for an electric train station, her world turns upside down because she falls in love for the first time.  Lacking experience, she comically stalk pursues him.

The story is cute. The teaser is downright hilarious. My favorite part is her grandmother insulting her in Chinese and she had to get the translation from her mother. “Mom, what did grandmother say?”

“Your grandmother said, you don’t have boobs, yet still you want to dress provocatively,” her mother replied loudly.

That’s just wrong, actually, my mother would have said the same thing. See, I can relate to her and her family.

The las chicas at Darathai also did a post about this film, they have translated the official summary and even translated the theme song. Awesome or what? You can check out their post here.

The film will be release on October 15, 2009 nationwide Thailand. I’ll probably get to see it 3 months from now.

Teaser:

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