TVB's 59th anniversary drama "This City Never Sleeps" ended on Nov. 6 with a finale party at Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau, where more than 60 cast and crew members joined almost 1,000 viewers for the last episode. Jade carried the event live from 8.25 pm.
What should have been a routine thank-you session turned into tears and a running discussion about a sequel.
Samantha Ko Cried First, and Took Chilam with Her
Samantha Ko, who plays his on-screen wife Hung Hoi Wan, went first. She said she had never expected to cry over his character Koon Hau Yin, then described the man he played as "someone clawing his way up, and having to give up so much to get there." Turning to him, she said, "You were really, really good."
Chilam's eyes reddened; when his turn came, he wiped his eyes several times, then covered his face with both hands as someone handed him tissues. He tilted his head back and looked away. Applause and shouting rose from the floor.
Ron Ng: "He Might Still Be Alive"
If the tears were the night's most affecting moment, the word "sequel" was its most repeated. Ron Ng, who plays Cheung's younger brother Koon Hau Kwan, said he was keen to work with him again. He joked that although viewers had just watched his on-screen brother drink poisoned milk, the drama never confirmed he died—"he might still be alive", which he said made a reunion with the original cast entirely plausible. He then deferred: producer Chan Wai Koon, "Sister Tsang" (Catherine Tsang) and the investors would have to sign off.
Tsang, taking the stage afterwards, left the door ajar. A sequel, she said, could be made—but the producer would first have to work out how to bring Cheung's character back from the dead.
One Take, No Dialogue
The scene viewers are still talking about is the exit itself. Stripped of his schemes and exposed by his wife, the character removes his jacket, tie, and ring, then his glasses—as if shedding the wealth and disguise of a lifetime—sits alone at a table, drops a pill into a glass of milk and drinks it. A flashback reveals that years earlier he had handed his own mother poisoned milk. This glass is the punishment that arrived late.
It was shot in one take—"one shot", as the production put it—with no dialogue at all. Cheung carried it alone in front of a 360-degree camera, taking his character through the poison, the convulsions and the blood, with nothing to work with but blocking, his eyes and his breathing.
Online, viewers called the performance faultless and pushed his name for Best Actor.
The family war is over. Whether its losing side gets a second act is now a question for the producers.
(Reported by Lynn Zhou from Macau)
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