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The cast of Channel 8’s Entangled couldn’t extricate themselves from some hairy situations

SINGAPORE — Entangled, the new MediaCorp TV Channel 8 drama that will air on weekdays at 7pm, is a real multi-generational melodrama. It’s about sexual violence against a woman that results in heartache for the next generation.

Cast of Entangled (from left): Rayson Tan, Aileen Tan, Thomas Ong, Jack Tan, Margaret Wang and 
Huang Qi Ming.

Cast of Entangled (from left): Rayson Tan, Aileen Tan, Thomas Ong, Jack Tan, Margaret Wang and
Huang Qi Ming.

SINGAPORE — Entangled, the new MediaCorp TV Channel 8 drama that will air on weekdays at 7pm, is a real multi-generational melodrama. It’s about sexual violence against a woman that results in heartache for the next generation.

Filmed in Malaysia, the show stars Thomas Ong, Aileen Tan, Rayson Tan and Kate Pang, along with Malaysian actors Jack Tan and Huang Qi Ming and Taiwanese actress Margaret Wang.

Since Wang plays Ong’s love interest, Ong admitted to having Googled her before meeting her. “I thought she was pretty. But when I met her in person, I realised that she was not very tall,” said Ong at the press conference for the show. “That made it hard to do kissing scenes with her because I had to splay my legs in order to reach her.”

As a result, said Wang, the kiss was very awkward. “His hand was on my neck and his thumb was pretty much in my teeth.”

But that’s nothing compared to what Rayson Tan went through. A quarrel scene between him and his on-screen wife, Aileen Tan, resulted in his hand getting accidentally slashed by the knife she was brandishing. “It was so painful, my hand went numb,” said Tan, who shared that he also sustained a sprained ankle and bee stings during the course of production — although getting slashed was probably the most severe injury.

“The floor was covered in his blood,” Aileen Tan recalled. For the veteran actress, Entangled was no easy experience, either. “My mother passed away in the middle of filming and I had to come back to Singapore for the funeral,” she said. “I would like to thank the cast for all getting along so well and helping me forget the pain.”

Catch Entangled starting on April 25 at 7pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.

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