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Somehow, this time, I didn't connect with Louis and Barbie, stars of Connected

I was acting as Soph's photographer when we went to stalk the very tanned and pretty famous Louis Koo and his pretty co-star Taiwanese Barbie Hsu when they were down in KL this morning for a promotional tour for their movie, Connected. It's apparently a remake of the Hollywood film Cellular, which I have no idea about; it must be that old.

Soph was practically hyperventilating in the car since we were called to come in 1 hr and 30 minutes prior to our interview slot. Soph, who attented the press conference in the afternoon much earlier on, thought that it had to be because of Louis, who wasn't really participating in the Q&A session with the press.

Don't look at me, I'm the one who has zilt knowledge of the Cantonese and Mandarin languages. My plan was, to go up to Louis and say, "Nei hou ma?" (How are you?)

I ended up saying, "Nei Hou ma. Nei hoh ye gong gung dong wa?" (How are you? Can you speak in English?) to which he answered, "Mm, hou yee" (No.) with a smirk I want to smack off his face.

As Soph ran through her questions, Louis coolly grabbed a local Chinese magazine and started flipping through it - all while the interview was going on! I glared but I didn't think he got the message. Each time Soph directed the question back to Louis after Barbie answered, he'd look up with a blank face and go, "What?"

With my camera in my hand, I could only laugh out loud as Soph had this "I'm going to smack him" look on her face!

At one point, he flipped to the food recipe pages, pointed at it to me, and then made eye contact to his manager. I merely pointed my index finger at him to go 'Tsk, tsk!'

Thankfully Barbie Hsu was a doll (pun intended). She was friendly, acommodating and she answered Soph's questions gracefully.

When Soph asked for them to describe five things we don't know about them, Louis threw the magazine onto the floor in a huff and said: "What, five? I'm not doing this interview anymore!"
I was like, hell, see if we care! But, he promptly returned and Soph coaxed him into giving three. Which he didn't even answer properly! All in all, he was being a huffy brat at the age of 37. Louis Koo is a brat - I'm telling everybody this.

Right after the interview was done, to which Soph had half given up on Louis for his sarcastic remarks and one-liner answers, we took pictures with the stars. Yes, I sold my soul.

Louis decided he wanted to stand on a wood platform that belonged to a standee and refused to come down. Basically, I was standing one feet away from him, so he could step down but he took me by my shoulder and we took the above snap. Then, he told us in Mandarin which was flawlessly translated by Soph that, "You must tell everybody that I'm this tall."

!?!?!?!!?

I should've said someone really hated him because they dressed him in a fugly floral vest in English and walk off, damnit.

Louis Koo is still a brat. And he isn't the cool kid that he portrays on the big screen. It was an interesting moment for the both of us.

Labels: Barbie Hsu, Connected, interview 2008, Louis Koo

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