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On set: Non-stop face-stuffing in Good Luck!

SINGAPORE – Greetings and salutations, fellow stargazers! Filming for the Chinese New Year-themed drama, Good Luck, is currently underway – because if it’s to air in February, now’s about the time for festivities in TV-land – and we dropped by the set to see if there were any hongbaos up for grabs.

SINGAPORE – Greetings and salutations, fellow stargazers! Filming for the Chinese New Year-themed drama, Good Luck, is currently underway – because if it’s to air in February, now’s about the time for festivities in TV-land – and we dropped by the set to see if there were any hongbaos up for grabs.

Turns out there weren’t – but there was a (steam)boatload of cast members present for a scene in which a reunion dinner takes place. Good Luck revolves around the 100-year-old matriarch of a family squabbling over what they stand to inherit should she, er, shuffle off this mortal coil.

Hong Hui Fang in some pretty gnarly prosthetic makeup plays the elderly dowager, and in our video interview with the 54-year-old, we’re going to let her tell you about spending two hours in hair and makeup at the crack of dawn each day.

And since it was a reunion dinner scene we popped in on – one of many, many dinner table scenes in the show – we’ll also let Hui Fang’s descendants Paige Chua, Romeo Tan, Chris Tong and Aloysius Pang tell you about their chemistry with their difficult co-star: The food. Who’s the biggest eater of edible props on set? Romeo points the finger at Chris, but Aloysius rats out a certain someone else – who wasn’t even there to defend herself. Low blow, Aloysius... We like that.

Then there’s six minutes of hilarious banter amongst Hui Fang’s offspring Chen Liping, Chen Shu Cheng and Rayson Tan about who is the beastliest – and what’s the deal with Shu Cheng pulling THAT face?

Click on the videos and all will be revealed.

Catch Good Luck starting Feb 2, weekdays at 9pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.

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