Yang Youning took on the roles of producer and actor, appearing on the 11th with Malaysian star Chen Zeyao, Zhang Xuanrui, Liu Yihau, and Shi Mingshuai at the premiere of the new drama Men in Prison: A Record of Inmate Lives. This marks Chen Zeyao’s first time acting in a Taiwanese drama, where he plays a rookie prison guard. In one scene involving a strip search, he taped his socks onto his private parts using duct tape before performing, but later howled in pain when ripping the tape off after filming. Asked if there was any “functional damage,” Yang Youning guaranteed for him: “Everything’s normal. Right after we wrapped up, his wife got pregnant.”
Chen Zeyao will welcome his baby at the end of this month. When mentioning his pregnant wife, Yun Meixin, he beamed with happiness and said he can’t wait to finish work in Taiwan to return to Malaysia for the birth. He also shared that Yang Youning—already a father of three—proactively shared his experience of welcoming a new baby and even prepared several hand-me-down clothes from his own children to pass on to Chen. Yang Youning explained, “Clothes that have been worn before make it easier to take care of a baby.”
Separately, the recent controversy involving Namewee and Taiwanese “nurse goddess” Hsieh Youxin has also sparked concern about the situation in Malaysian prisons. Chen Zeyao has visited prisons in both Taiwan and Malaysia. While filming the movie Crossroads: One Two Jaga with Sylvia Chang, he visited a Malaysian prison, where he was left with a deep impression of the holding cells, describing them as very dark, “with only a thin beam of light coming through the cracks—breathing was even difficult.” However, when filming in various prisons in Taiwan, he found them much brighter than expected, bringing a sense of hope.
Source: Liberty Entertainment