Veteran actress Susan Shaw Yin-yin says she doesn't mind being called a witch. 'I do look like one,' the 57-year-old said, adding that she was cast in the film The Pye-Dog for that reason.
'The director [Derek Kwok Chi-kin] was looking for a witch-like old lady and [producer and co-star Eric] Tsang Chi-wai recommended me to the director. If it wasn't for this witch-like role, I wouldn't have surprised the judges.'
Shaw (above) is still glowing from her triumph at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April when she collected the best supporting actress prize for her role in The Pye-Dog. Shaw competed with four other actresses for the award but her portrayal of a loving grandmother who is still living in the dream of her glamorous past impressed the judges.
Shaw has every reason to clutch her statuette more tightly. Born in Hong Kong, she moved to Taiwan at a young age and raised her younger brother and sister single-handedly. She joined the Eternal Film Company in 1974 and that year made her first film, A Haunted House, which required her to strip
in the final scene.
'I can only use Ah Gil's [Gillian Chung Yan-tung] quote [after the recent celebrity sex photo scandal], 'I was too naive then',' she said.