Mean and Peem hit the screen
By Tatat Bunnag
Photographs by Varuth Hirunyatheb
and are courtesy of Angel and Bear Productions
Did you know
Mean became famous with her role in the 2012 film, Yes or No 2.
Coming soon to local screens is director Pakphum Wongjinda’s latest horror comedy movie, Pee Kaoo Pee Ook (Possessed).
Possessed is loosely based on a true tale about a group of film students who choose a remote Chinese cemetery as a location for their final film project. Things get weird when a member of the film crew becomes possessed by an evil spirit. The situation grows worse when the spirit demands that the students do some work for it if they want to leave the cemetery alive.
Starring in Possessed are 21-year-old actress Apittha Klaiudom (Mean) and 20-year-old actor Parkin Borwornsiriluck (Peem).
Student Weekly recently caught up with Mean and Peem to chat about the making of Possessed, which is due to open at cinemas on November 14.
Student Weekly: Can you tell us about your characters in the film?
Peem: I play Book, who is a member of the film crew. He’s a smart guy and seems mature for his age, but he also gets bullied by his friends.
Mean: My character is Ji, the newest and weirdest member of the crew. Her parents are in the conjuring business, which makes her different from everybody else.
Student Weekly: Is there much difference between the characters you played and your real life personalities?
Mean: They’re totally different. Peem and I are very easy-going and we always have a good time. But our characters seem very serious and mysterious most of the time.
Peem: This was the first time I’d ever worked with Mean, but we became friends really quickly because our personalities are so similar.
Student Weekly: Was the film shot in a real cemetery?
Peem: Yes. We shot a lot of scenes at a big Chinese cemetery on a hill in Chon Buri.
Mean: It was like a memorial park where Chinese people go to pay respect to their ancestors during the Qingming Festival.
Student Weekly: Is it true that this film is based on a true story?
Peem: Part of it is based on a true story that happened to people I know at university. They went to a Chinese cemetery and filmed a short movie for their senior film project. They saw something strange there and wrote a story about what happened.
Mean: But it’s a fictional movie. Only part of the story was based on real events. I’m not even sure if we used the same cemetery.
Student Weekly: Do you guys believe in ghosts and superstition?
Peem: I believe in ghosts.
Mean: I’m not sure whether or not ghosts are real, but I think it’s something that we should respect and not make fun of. I apologised to the tombs in the cemetery many times during the filming.
Student Weekly: Did you enjoy working on a horror comedy movie?
Mean: I like horror movies, but I’m not a huge fan. I find it much more interesting when there’s an element of humour in it. But the characters that we played were more romantic than funny.
Peem: It’s not a typical scary movie, because there are also a lot of moral messages and lessons in Possessed. I think the film has a great combination of different ideas.
Vocabulary
- remote (adj): far away from places where other people live
cemetery (n): an area of land used for burying dead people
mature (adj): behaving in a sensible way, like an adult
bully (v): to frighten or hurt a weaker person
conjuring (n): entertainment in the form of magic tricks, especially ones that seem to make things appear or disappear
easy-going (adj): relaxed and happy to accept things without worrying
mysterious (adj): strange; difficult to understand or explain
superstition (n): the belief that particular events bring good or bad luck
tomb (n): a large grave, especially one built of stone above or below the ground
typical (adj): having the usual qualities or features of something
moral (adj): concerned with principles of right or wrong behaviour
