Actresses gear up for Green Wave
By Suwitcha Chaiyong
Photos by Varuth Hirunyatheb
and courtesy of Green Wave
Did you know
Focus stars in the upcoming ghost movie, The Eyes Diary.
For several years, Club Friday the Series has been successfully presenting personnel stories discussed on the popular radio talk show of the same name. In season four, the TV show caused controversy when an episode featured a story about a woman finding out that her mother had an affair with her husband.
Because of the show’s high ratings, Green Wave radio decided to feature stories and actors from the series at its upcoming concert event, Green Concert #17: Love Scenes Love Songs — Club Friday 9th Anniversary. The show will be held at Royal Paragon Hall on September 27 and 28.
Student Weekly recently met up with three young actresses — Apinya Sakuljaroensuk (Saiparn), 24, Focus Jirakul, 21 and Napat Banchongchitpaisal (Yeepun), 23 — who performed in the latest season of the series. The actresses shared their thoughts on singing, talk radio and the upcoming concert.
Student Weekly: How do you feel about people who call in to radio stations to discuss their personnel problems?
Focus: People who call in want to get problems off their chest. Chatting with somebody who doesn’t know them is good because they don’t have to reveal who they are. It’s good that they don’t have to keep their problems to themselves.
Student Weekly: Have you ever recommended that your friends call talk radio when they have problems?
Focus: I actually wanted to call the programme myself at one time, but I didn’t. At the time, I didn’t want to stress out people close to me with my problems.
Yeepun: I always listen to my friends and try to help them myself. But it doesn’t really matter what I suggest because they have to make their own choices and decisions to deal with their problems.
Student Weekly: Saiparn, how do you feel about playing a role that became so controversial?
Saiparn: When I heard the story, I knew it was a role that I couldn’t miss. It’s a complicated and challenging story. It was hard to believe that this kind of situation could happen.
Student Weekly: Do you think that people who call Club Friday always tell the truth?
Saiparn: I think most people tell stories from their own experience and from their own point of view. People who call in have to tell their stories for up to 10 minutes. If they’re making the story up, they must have an imagination good enough to write a novel!
Student Weekly: Since the theme of the upcoming Green Concert is love scenes and love songs, do you have any favourite movie soundtrack songs?
Yeepun: I don’t have an all-time favourite soundtrack song. It depends on which movie I’m into at the time. Recently, I really liked “Lost Star” from Begin Again. I found the movie very touching.
Student Weekly: How do you feel about singing?
Saiparn: I can’t sing at all. I’m better at crying!
Focus: I can sing both ballads and dance songs, but I can’t sing and dance at the same time.
Yeepun: My singing is off-key. I once auditioned in a recording studio to be a part of a girl group, and I kept singing off-key.
Student Weekly: Saiparn, can you tell us about your short film, Postcard?
Saiparn: I study film and video at Rangsit University. Postcard is part of my university work. It’s a movie about a guy, played by Nadech Kugimiya, who lives in the south, and a woman played by Namtarn Pichukkana who lives in Nan. They develop a relationship by sending postcards to each other.
Student Weekly: Focus, how was your recent trip to Japan?
Focus: The Japan National Tourism Organization wanted me to introduce interesting places in Japan that most Thai tourists don’t know about. This time I visited Sapporo. I went to the Snow Crystal Museum, which didn’t have many visitors in the past but is now popular because of the animated film, Frozen. There were a lot of tourists there and many of them waited in line to dress up like Elsa from the film.
Student Weekly: Why should people go to the Green Concert?
Saiparn: This concert will be special. It will combine acting and singing. You’ll get to see singers act and actors sing. This will be my first concert, so I’m really excited. Please come to the show!
Vocabulary
- controversy (n): public discussion and argument about something that many people strongly disagree about or are shocked by
affair (n): a sexual relationship between two people, usually when one or both of them is married to somebody else
stress somebody out (phrasal v): to make somebody feel worried or anxious about something
challenging (adj): difficult in an interesting way that tests your ability
touching (adj): making you feel emotional
off-key (adj): not in tune
Idiom
get something off your chest: to talk about something that has been worrying you for a long time so that you feel less anxious
