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Vietnamese stars indulge in flights of fancy
  • | PLTPHCM, dtinews.vn | April 10, 2012 08:04 AM

Vietnamese artists seem to be tripping over themselves as they boast of a wealth of potential projects that never seem to quite come to fruition.

 

Former Miss. Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy

Hollywood

Former Miss. Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy boasted she would act in a Hollywood film in which she would play the role of a girl living near the Laos-Vietnam border who was to fall in love with a handsome military officer. Thuy kept all specific information about the film in secret, and it has remained so since her first announcement. Although Thuy has visited Hollywood on several occasions, she has yet to make a film, apparently spending most of the time blagging her way into the premieres of blockbusters like Transformers and Twilight Saga.

After seizing an opportunity of a lifetime to act in The Quiet American, Hai Yen surprised Vietnamese audiences when she said she had been invited to join the cast for a film named Battle Angel directed by James Cameron. Yen said that the film would have a budget of USD400 million and be released in 3D, yet so far, the film seems little more than a figment of the actresses’ imagination.

Model Bebe Pham once dominated newspapers with the news that she would star in several international films. But in fact the closest Bebe Pham got to film star fame were a few walk-on roles in unknown films like Deep Gold, The Girl with No Number, Irreversi, and Midnight Movie.

Truong Ngoc Anh is another boaster claiming she had won a major role. She was so confident of the film going ahead that she submitted the film script to Vietnam’s film censors before making a final decision. However this confidence may have ebbed away as Truong Ngoc Anh seems busy doing other things, and her Hollywood script seems to be gathering dust in a draw somewhere.

Singers with soaring imaginations

Hardly anyone remembers Long Quan who once boasted of a VND5 billion (VND239,693) L&P Communications Company investment in his career, and it seems little has happened to the expected investment.

2008 Vietnam Idol contestant Tra My seems to be the most impressive boaster claiming she and composer Ha Dung would tour four cities in Texas and California on a multi-million dollar tour to launch her in the US.

Vietnamese pop diva My Linh couldn’t carry out the project she promised, in which she would co-operate with Blues Record to record and release albums in the US. Ho Quynh Huong, one of the best Vietnamese vocalists also damaged her reputation by boasting about her receiving an invitation to act in a Korean film and releasing her albums in Beijing, all of which proved to be wishful thinking.

Singer Ho Quynh Huong

 

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