It was revealed earlier this week that iconic Mediacorp drama The Little Nyonya could be getting its own spin-off in 2025.
Emerald Hill, which moreover follows the trials and tribulations of a long-suffering woman in a large Peranakan family, will star a full new solid and have the return of Jeanette Aw’s Yue Niang.
Tasha Low will play the model new little Nyonya, Ah Jie Zoe Tay is the family’s matriarch and Chantalle Ng, its elementary antagonist.
And no person is happier than Chantalle to bag the perform.
Wait, wouldn’t she have to play the Little Nyonya as a substitute?
“I auditioned for all three (female lead) roles,” said Chantalle when 8days.sg reached out to her. “After the audition, I actually dreamt that I acquired solid as (the villain) Anna. On this story, there’s a elementary good character, and the ‘huge unhealthy’, which I’m going to be. I was so happy as soon as I acquired info that I acquired it as a results of I’ve been performing in a lot of girl-next-door roles, and I hoped for one factor completely totally different.”
The 28-year-old, who has carried out kind-hearted characters in dramas such My Star Bride (2021) and All That Glitters (2023), added: “I actually really feel like this perform has potential to be a breakthrough and for people to see that I can deal with completely totally different roles. I really hope to do a nice job.”
In The Little Nyonya, Chantalle’s mum, Lin Meijiao, carried out one in every of many villains. For the youthful actress, she feels it is serendipitous that she acquired this perform.
Once we ask about her mum’s response, Chantalle instructed us with a chuckle: “She was very calm. She was like ‘oh wow, good’, or one thing like that. It was very underwhelming. I used to be so excited. I used to be leaping round and I referred to as her from set and she or he was simply very calm. However I’m certain she’s pleased for me.”
It has on a regular basis been Chantalle’s dream to behave in a sequence like The Little Nyonya.
“Once I went to audition for Emerald Hill, I used to be enthusiastic about how a lot it might imply to me (if I acquired the function). Sixteen years in the past, I bear in mind strolling onto the set of (The Little Nyonya) and being amazed by their consideration to element. I’d have a look at the gorgeous tok panjang (a ‘lengthy desk’, or grand feast in Peranakan tradition) they arrange, and suppose to myself how attention-grabbing it might be to be in a manufacturing like that,” recalled Chantalle.
“My mum was very cool on that present. I used to be 12 when it was on TV. She was seated behind me and I bear in mind crying and turning to have a look at her, asking ‘Why! Why are you so unhealthy!’. Now that I get to play (a villain too), it simply looks like I’ve come full circle. I rewatched the sequence for the audition, and it’s nonetheless as fascinating,” she continued.
Chantalle will be making an attempt forward to working with shut pal, Tasha.
“We’re each very pleased that we’re on this present collectively. We heard that we now have to be abroad for filming and that might be so superior. We went on a visit to Jeju collectively final 12 months, and that was simply excellent,” she said, together with that filming for Emerald Hill will start “sometime in Could”.
Within the meantime, like Chantalle, you probably can rewatch The Little Nyonya on mewatch.
This story was initially published in 8Days.