Please Don’t Bother Louis Koo And Michael Miu Whenever Andy Lau Has A Concert

Earlier this month, Louis Koo and Michael Miu were busy promoting their new movie White Storm 2 – Drug Lords, which also stars their pal Andy Lau. The youthful-looking pair (Louis is 48 while Michael is… 61, say what?) had given an interview with Chinese news portal Xinhuanet where they spoke candidly about their two decade-long friendship.

Turns out White Storm 2 isn’t the first time Louis and Michael have worked together. When asked if the movie is their first collaboration, Louis revealed “one little-known nugget of information” about their friendship, which is that 20 years ago, he was the face of Michael’s eyewear brand.

“I wasn’t acting at that time and was selling glasses,” said Michael. “So I asked Louis to be the brand ambassador for a range I came up with.”

“Also, we used to neighbours and my mum knows his daughter,” added Louis.

“So we do go really far back. But this is the first time we are acting together, and it’s a happy thing,” said Michael.

The pair were also asked about Andy Lau, whom Michael has known for 40 years. If you don’t remember, Michael and Andy, together with Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Felix Wong and Kent Tong, were part of TVB’s Five Tigers — the station’s most popular actors — from 1981 to 1986.

“I’ve known [Andy] for close to four decades but we don’t see much of each other,” said Michael. “The few of us brothers would meet up for a meal every couple of years, but in recent years, we would have reunion dinner together. Everyone is busy with their own things usually, and now he has to take care of his daughter so we meet up even less. But since we acted in this movie together, we’ve been meeting up more.”

Michael was then asked if he had friends begging him for tickets to Andy’s sold-out concerts in Hongkong last year. And his reply caught everyone by surprise.

“Every time [Andy] holds a concert, I get very stressed because everyone will ask me if I have tickets to Andy Lau’s concert, said Michael. But his tickets are very in-demand and they sell out very fast, so whenever he has a concert, I get very frustrated.”

And Louis concurred with Michael. “Whenever any singer in Hongkong has a concert, all my friends think I will get tickets,” he said. “And that includes movie premieres, even movies that I’m not in, they would ask me for tickets. So this is something I experience a lot because they think that just because you’re in this circle, you can get [tickets] easily. But when it happens, I’ll help if I can.”

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