*** MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ***




Part One
Taken from Straits Time Life 4th sept
ACTRESS MAY LEAVE METEOR GARDEN 2
The shooting of the sequel to one of the most loved Taiwanese dramas, Meteor Garden, is turing out to be a star-crossed affair. Since the shoot began in April, the show has seen so many delays that only 12 of the 40 episodes have been filmed. Now, lead actress Barbie Hsu wants out, says Sing Tao Daily.
Hsu, who plays the girlfriend of Jerry Yen in the show, says she is committed to the shoot until September 15 and that once her deal expires, she will move on to her next drama, A Chinese Ghost Story, whatever the Meteor Garden producers say.
"As of now, four directors and two crews have come and gone. So many shots have to be reshot. Personally, I don't mind if I have to go on waiting. But I can't hold up A Chinese Ghost Story," she says.
Meteor Garden 2 producers are negotiating with her, says the report. Since April, the Meteor Garden 2 shoot has been held up by the loss of four boxes of costumes when cast and crew went to Spain, screenplay rewrites, the commercial commitments of F4 and the launch of Vanness Wu's album.
With the many delays, producers have postponed the premiere of Meteor Garden 2 twice--first from summer to October, and then to December. Meanwhile, 8,000 fans went to Wu's autographing session at Plaza Singapura on Monday evening, says Shin Min Daily News.

Part Two - Mei Zhuo's girlfriend: Maggie Cheung + Vivian Xu + Britney
In MG, Mei Zhuo didn't have a girlfriend, but in the coming MG2, he'll be in love. Vanness initiated to Chai Zhi Ping to include a love story for Mei Zhuo in MG2. She asked Vanness wat kind of girl he wats for the show, Vanness came up with the following requirements, Maggie Cheung's disposition, long haired, speaks like Vivian Xu Ruo Xuan and Britney's Spear's figure.
Mei Zhuo didn't have any love developments in MG, recently when he was in Msia doing promotions, he took an opportunity to tell Chai Jie that he hope to fall in love in MG2. He does not hope to be only a rich kid in the show, but someone who has ke4 gu3 ming2 xin1 love life. After listening to Vanness's thoughts, Chai Jie agreed to add more of his scenes.
Vanness admire Maggie Cheung very much, he expressed, age of Mei Zhuo's girlfriend in MG2 is not important, looks muz be like Maggie Cheung's, Vivian's Xu style of talking and Britney's good figure.
In MG2, Jerry, ZaiZai, Ken and Vanness each will have a touching story after graduation. The highlight will be the complicating love story on Da S, Michelle Saram, Jerry and ZaiZai.
Vanness had affected MG2's progress of filming because of his album promotions, he generously admitted: 'it's all my fault'. Actually, F4 is supposed to start their concert tour from November onwards, b4 the concert they'll have to rehearse the contents of the concert. MG2 was supposed to complete filming in October, so at the moment besides filming MG2, F4 will not be accepting other job commitments. Chai Zhi Ping stessed that filming of MG2 will take priority, Vanness album promotion is only left with celebration - autograph session in Taipei Xi Men Ding on the 15th.
Vanness's thinking is rather queer at times, he said if he's the scriptwriter, he hopes to write a lunatic or killer character for himself. The best that his whole family is killed, causing him to take revenge wholeheartedly. Like this, he can even have fighting scenes.
Source: Min Shen Bao & udnstars 2002/9/11

Part Three - Jerry & Michelle La1 Chu1 Man3 Tian1 Liu2 Xing1
Meteor Garden II added a Ye Sha between Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai, introducing a love triangle. Originally Jerry is the one whose health is looked upon with most concern by MG2's film crew, but it turned out that Michelle is the one who is seriously weak. The number of times she fell ill were even more than that of Jerry, and her illnesses were more serious.
Amidst the filming of MG2, Jerry and Michelle lost 4-5 kg each due to gastric problems. Michelle said laughingly: "No choice. I also don't know why ever since I came to TW to film MG2, I've been vomitting and having diahorrea. Now I almost always take vegetarian food coz' I'm scared that if I eat food that's too oily, I'll start having diahorrea again." As for Jerry, he's the well-known Yan Jin3 Zhang1, he'll start running to the toilet when he starts work. On average, he visits the toilet 5-8 times a day.
Not only are their health situations very similar, even their tastes are similar too. Jerry was named 'Guo3 Zi4 Li2' by the film crew coz' he not only likes to eat all sorts of fruits, he also likes to drink fruit juice. Michelle is also one fruit freak. Whenever both of them are filming together, they will be having a huge fruit feast.
In the past 2 months, Michelle was almost always sick. Although she felt it tough working, she expressed happily that she zhan1 le4 MG2 de4 guang1, recently there has been several commercial and film offers - all these thanks to MG2.
Just some time ago, due to F4's 'outside work', the progress of MG2 was seriously affected, and Da S even wanted to leave. Now MG2 is split into two teams for the filming. Even the actors' mealtimes and rest-times are limited. Comic Family expressed that to stabilize the progress, each mealtime is only 20 minutes. Sometimes the actors had just finished bu3 zhuang1 and visiting the washroom, they didn't even have time to open their lunchbox when they'll start hearing the director shouting that it's time to start work.
source taken from Xing Bao 17th Sep 2002




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