HKCinemagic : Your first movie was Snake Charmer.
Was it a different kind of pressure compared to your previous works on TV?
M Y : It was actually much easier because it wasn't live, the sound wasn't taken live and there was one script, not like the TV series wherein you have constantly new scripts. But one thing that was difficult is that, in TV, there are different cameras so everything was more…in order… in sequence. But with the movie, I would take one shot here, one shot there. So a lot of the reactions, I would not know exactly why to do them. And there was also the language barrier. The director would change a line here or do something different and I wouldn't know which part I was actually doing. For that, it was hard for me.
HKCinemagic :Were the snakes a problem for you?
M Y : No, they were not because when I was growing up, my cousins actually had snakes as pets. So I was used to growing up with snakes. They were lucky there (smiling)!
Marsha Yuen in Snake Charmer
HKCinemagic :Snake Charmer has a very US B-movie feeling, usually; those exploitations movies sell on sex or violence. But this one doesn't deliver the goods. Do you think it's because of some cultural differences?
M Y : I think in Hong Kong , they are more conservative. And Thailand is even more than Hong Kong . And the producer is a friend; he probably didn't want me to come up with a bad image. Because your image in Hong Kong is very easy to get bad. They don't think sexy as being a very positive thing. They make it something very dirty. I think now, after 7 years from that time, I think sexy is becoming more and more appreciated, more artsy, like in a healthy manner now. But back then, if you shot a little bit of your bra, then people would think it's something dirty.
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