Joe Ma Supports Joel Chan, While Michael Tse Teases

Joe Ma, Michael Tse, Skye Chan, and other actors from "Relic of an Emissary" attended to a promotion event yesterday. Talked about Joel Chan was absent again from promotion events and was snapped hanging out with rumored girlfriend Florinda Ho in Londa, Joe gave his support to his good friend: "I don't know whether the guy in the photo is Joel. He declined to star in 'Return to Three Kingdoms' because of sickness or personal family matters, which are not good things. I hope everything is good for him."

While Joe supports Joel, fellow actor in the drama Michael teases him instead: "Was he there for the royal wedding? And coincidentally photographed by others? I know he is on a long break. (Shouldn't give up work for love?) There are many reasons to decline dramas. Moses Chan said he is opening a coffee shop. Everyone has his reasons. Twins even sings 'Love is Bigger Than Sky'." [which means love is more important than anything else]

Source: Mingpao  / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Joe Ma Might Leave TVB, Jessica Hsuan Supports

Is Joe Ma another TVB's biological child leaving their mother company?

Joe Ma and Jessica Hsuan were filming outdoor scenes for their new drama "Flying Tigers" (tentative name). Joe expressed he doesn't have much dramas left in TVB after he finished this one. His contract with TVB is ending this year and he said no one approached him yet to talk about renewing it.

"I don't know whether I'm renewing or not," he said. "I just hope I can have a bigger market. Better salary and more good dramas to film."

His partner in the drama Jessica supports him to earn more money up in the North (Mainland).

"He can absolutely do it. If we don't earn money now, when could we?"

The actress expressed she is also filming a Mainland series like Joe after she is done filming "Flying Tigers." As for many older TVB artists are no longer TVB's biological children, she agreed.

"Many from my generation already left, only Sunny Chan remains. He always asks me to stay. Well I do like to work with people I'm familiar with."

*Three Types of TVB Contracts*

1. Management Contract - This contract is usually long (more than 5 years) and it includes dramas, hosting, singing, and other activities. A monthly salary is given.

2. Per-drama Contract - This contract tells how many dramas the artist has to film every year. Salary is given by every episode.


3. Agent Contract - Similar to Per-drama Contract. The company would also seek other job opportunities for artists.

Some of TVB's Current Biological Children

Male: Moses Chan, Raymond Lam, Kevin Cheng, Roger Kwok, Michael Tse, Bosco Wong, Kenneth Ma, Steven Ma, Roger Kwok
Female: Tavia Yeung, Myolie Wu, Linda Chung, Kate Tsui, Fala Chen, Bernice Liu, Sonija Kwok, Sharon Chan, Natalie Tong

Some of TVB's Per-drama Contract Artists

Male: Wayne Lai, Bobby Au-Yeung, Sunny Chan, Raymond Wong, Power Chan, Chin Ka Lok
Female: Sheren Tang, Jessica Hsuan, Ada Choi, Flora Chan, Maggie Cheung, Yoyo Mung, Charmaine Sheh (maybe)

Some of TVB's Agent Contract Artists

Male: Wong He, Har Yu, Evergreen Mak, Stephen Au
Female: Michelle Yim, Susan Tse, Joyce Cheng, Toby Leung

Source: Oriental Daily / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Jessica Hsuan Not Afraid to Have Rumors With Joe Ma

Jessica Hsuan, Joe Ma, Him Law, etc attended to the costume fitting of a 13-episodes new series <飛虎> (rough translation: "Flying Tigers") and they showed up in their outfits in the series. Jessica plays an Inspector of Police for the Organised Crime Triad Bureau and Joe plays a Special Duties Unit member. There will be many actions scenes and Jessica was told to exercise more. Always "zero exercise," she said walking her dogs is the biggest workout.

Having a romantic relationship with Joe in the series, Jessica expressed she is not afraid to have rumors with Joe. As for Joe, who worked at the G4 [a police protection unit] before, he said G4 and Special Duties Unit are different. Asked whether he would train more, he said: "I need to! But I'll let those muscle men to show off muscle. I don't sell my muscle."

Playing a couple with Christine Kuo, Oscar Leung asked whether there would be intimate scenes, he said: "Should be. I smile when I thought about it. When she touched my hair earlier, I couldn't move. (Spark up a romantic relationship during filming?) It's hard to say! I'll let everyone know by then!"

Source: Oriental Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Dominic Lam, Joe Ma, Power Chan: Men's Most Pain

TVB series "Beauty Knows No Pain" will broadcast finale this week. In order to push ratings, three male leads from the series Joe Ma, Lam Kar Wah, and Power Chan accepted interview with their "other halves," who are rarely seen by others. Besides wife, children, and family, most men care about their cars the most. There is n exception to these three male leads. Joe's "other half" is an Audi Q7 seven seater 4WD; Dominic's favorite is an Audi A4 RV; Power's car is a Mitsubishi i K car.

Dominic Lam: I'm hateful

When Power saw Joe and Dominic's "wives," he immediately praised they take good care of their cars and sighed at himself. The three talked about cars right away when they met and exchanged tips with each other.

"BKNP" is ending this week. Although Vincent Chien plays by Dominic, has Michelle Yim to have kids for him at a risky age, unfortunately he couldn't resist Yoyo Chen and committed adultery. Many netizens pointed if TVB adds a "The Most Hateful Character" award at the Anniversary Awards, Lam would be the best choice. As for this, Lam said: "Yeah, there are many topics in every series. However, this year is very special. Including 'A Fistful of Stances,' I play a bad guy in two series. But Vincent Chien in 'BKNP' is more annoying, especially to female viewers." He continued: "In fact, I already knew about it when I received my scripts. I also specially went to do research. I deepened the originally plot, so during filming I'm prepared to be disliked."

Joe Ma: Nothing left

Talked about the end of the story, when talked about his relationship with Maggie Cheung, Joe said: "You can call this men's most pain. First wife is actually a lesbian. When I met Maggie, I gave her all my love. I kept understanding and loving her. But in return, she betrayed me and took away my everything!" Dominic also said: "I can't say I didn't have anything left. she (Michelle) gave birth a son for me, just we didn't get together." Power said with smiles: "Out of the three of us, I'm the most loyal. From looking down at Joyce Tang in the beginning, to making fun of her, admiring, loving, and protecting this woman, I can say this is a happy ending."

In the series, Michelle, Maggie, and Joyce acted out the biggest pains women have to face at different stages. Dominic, Joe, and Power also talked about men's most pains, Dominic said: "Men would never told women their thoughts clearly. They always treat women like they would understand, so I think men's biggest pain is: how come women would not understand? Men won't do very detailed things, but women mind this alot. Men would think you should understand that it doesn't mean I don't love you if I don't satisfy all your needs. It counts as the most pain."

Power Chan: Can't be weak

Power feels men's pain must come from heart/feelings, he said: "The most pain is burden. If the wife earns more than the husband, or her education and status is better than her man, he must feel very painful. This type of pain is mental pressure. Don't know whether this is in tradition or it's a genetic problem, men rarely talk to others, don't want to show their weakest side."

Joe couldn't hold his words and joined: "Men like to stay quiet, take in anything. At this moment, I feel it's hard. Maybe sometimes if you speak it out and share it with others you might feel better. But when you're there, you don't know how to tell them. If you tell, it feels like you're very weak, don't want others to see this side of you. But you can't take all these stress, you only know your own pain."

Source: Apple Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Joe Ma Is Challenged By Ancient Scripts

Joe Ma, Louis Yuen, Him Law, etc. appeared in a dinner to watch finale of "Suspects in Love" together, but female lead Flora Chan didn't show up. Sharon Chan missed the dinner, too, because she has to film new series "怒火街頭" Joe Ma disclosed the dinner was arranged by the producer, didn't know whether everyone pooled money into it or not. Lately he's been busy filming ancient series "Relic of an Emissary" (洪武三十二). Because the scripts are hard to say, so he couldn't adapt to it. "Ancient scripts, didn't get use to it, so I NG a lot. But it's my first time working with Kate Tsui, Michael Tse, Skye Chan, etc., it's a very new experience."

Source: ON.CC / Translated by: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment 

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Joe Ma: I'm Actually Very Devoted!

The flirty looking Joe Ma was rumored with many TVB fa-dans in the past. But lately he's away from rumors gradually. Doesn't matter how others think of him, fortunately his wife trusts 100%. Joe says: "I'm very devoted, at least over these years I have only one wife." In addition, his partner in "Suspects In Love" Sharon Chan was cheated by her boyfriend, making her very upset and depressed.

Always plays an intelligent and brave police detective, Joe has a new break through lately. He plays a quite silly detective who thinks he's smart at investigating, but in fact he will get in trouble all the time. Joe says the character is kind of like him in real life, but he never thought to use this character to clean his image and win back the hearts of "see-lais."

"I'm similar to the character, silly people who are always played by others. Quite good to family, of course I'm not too much a male chauvinist like him, but we both try to succeed by trying hard. Can't say that I'm using this character to clean my image, I played good characters like him in the past, but mostly professionals, and they were very women-welcoming. This time is a more pragmatic character, hope viewers will like Joe Ma who tries to portray characters in a second way!"

After "Triumph in the Skies," Joe works with Flora Chan again. Meeting up after 6 years, they still work well with each other, but he senses a change: "Acting-wise of course there's no change, but in the past she was a little more playful during work, quite boyish personality. Now she's more serious, maybe because she became a mother. It's a second stage of life when women became mothers. I'm happy for her, I think Flora's fans will feel happy seeing her getting her happiness."

Although Joe's a married man and a father of a 11-year-old son, but his handsome appearance attracted many rumors in the past. List of rumored-girlfriends includes Charmaine Sheh, Sonija Kwok, even female models. It was also rumored that his marriage was on rocks. However, these recent years he's temporarily away from rumors. But Joe doesn't think his past rumors affected his career: "Rumors are uncontrollable. As for career, if everyone thinks my acting is OK, I'm happy already. As long as I have this heart, I believe one day I will succeed. I don't think I'm flirty, at least after married for this long, I still have only one wife. My wife trusts me 100%, otherwise how can our relationship stayed strong? Communication is very important, doesn't matter how busy, I'll sleep at home. Doesn't matter using what ways to tie us together, as long as we have the heart."

Sharon Chan plays Joe's fiance, but Flora interrupted the two. Sharon says if in reality her boyfriend cheats on her, she would definitely step out of it: "I'll let that person have him, that man likes a second woman, he can like a third or fourth one, he can't be a good man. When I was in school, my boyfriend cheated on me. I was very upset, couldn't eat nor sleep, lost lots weight. Now that I grew up as an adult, won't look upon romance that much. Not worthy to stay? I'll leave freely."

Although she met men who cheated, but Sharon won't be strict on her boyfriends because of that: "In contrast I'll go easy on him, let him play, as long as he doesn't go too far. I purposed to loosen up, no use to be worried, this is the problem of personality, useless even if I'm super strict on him. Couples should compromise with each other, not supposed to control each other."

Source: Singtao / Translated by: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Joe Ma tries hard to promote "Born Rich"

Joe Ma accepted an interview from Metro Radio. When talked about "Born Rich"'s rating is not as high as "Beyond the Realm of Conscience", Joe felt the audience for both series is different, so it's hard to compare. But he said he's confident because the best part will air soon. He will participate more in promotions to promote his series. It's a pity that most important characters are currently not in Hong Kong, so he will have to try harder to promote.

In addition, he will collaborate with Maggie Cheung, who he hasn't work with for more than 10 years. Asked he heard about Maggie's relationship rumors, he said he doesn't gossip privacy of his friends.

Source: Oriental Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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