Adventure of the Ring, romantic comedy TV series about a nerd and his air hostess fiancée set in Taiwan, debuts on HBO in Asia
- Chris Wang plays an actuary and Allison Lin his air hostess fiancée in Adventure of the Ring. Each episode features a different stop on Taipei’s subway network
- ‘I finally got the chance to play the previous me,’ says Lin, a former air hostess, while Wang prepped to play a number cruncher by watching The Imitation Game
HBO Asia has teamed up with Taiwanese producers for an original miniseries, Adventure of the Ring, following the success of their earlier collaborations The Teenage Psychic in 2017 and The World Between Us in 2019.
Premiering on December 13, the eight-episode romantic comedy series portrays the love story between an insurance actuary, played by Chris Wang Yu-sheng, and an air hostess, played by Allison Lin Yu-hsi, who gained widespread fame in Taiwan after playing a perceptive social worker in The World Between Us.
The series also explores the realities of marriage, and marks Wang’s first outing on the small screen in five years after taking a hiatus from show business to become a parent.
To prepare for his role as the no-nonsense Yi-zhi, who has superb logical thinking skills, the actor says he watched the Oscar-nominated performance of Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014).
“Yi-zhi lives in his own world. His colleagues and even his boss don’t like him, thinking he is a puzzling presence. But he is a genius who can solve big problems,” says Wang, who spoke to several actuaries about their life, work and views on romance as part of his preparations for the role.