Nicholas Tse Used To Be Very Rebellious, But His Manager Had A Brilliant Way Of Getting Him To Cooperate
Nic's manager Mani Fok also revealed that Joey Yung can be “quite stubborn” as well.
Emperor Entertainment Group’s Mani Fok has worked with many big stars over the years, but when asked how she deals with somebody who is “talented but rebellious and refuses to listen” to her, the celeb manager’s mind immediately went to one specific person: a young Nicholas Tse.
“When I asked him to turn left, he would definitely go to the right instead,” the 48-year-old revealed during her recent appearance on Chinese talk show The Super Sisters with Hongkong singer Joey Yung, 41, whom she also manages.
Joey agreed, saying, “The Nicholas of the past got angry very easily and we used to be afraid of him.”
Once, to show how defiant Nic could be, Mani placed a bet with her colleagues, saying that she could get him to tear off a poster that was stuck on the door of Emperor Group head honcho Albert Yeung (aka their big boss).
“That’s impossible,” her co-workers had scoffed. “He’ll never listen to you.”
Boy, were they wrong.
As soon as Mani told Nic, “The boss specially asked for that poster to be put up on his door. Don’t ever take it down or you’re dead”, Nic declared, “Hmph! I’m not afraid!” and immediately ripped it off.
“With him, you can’t use typical methods, such as saying, ‘Oh, please help me to take down that poster,’” she explained, proving just what an expert she is at handling her artistes.
Apparently, Joey can be “quite stubborn” as well.
Once, when Joey was about to hold a concert, Mani suddenly told her that she had to do an interview.
According to Mani, Joey suddenly became “very agitated”. “That was the first time I saw her eyes get bloodshot. It looked like she was going to turn into another Nicholas. I quickly grabbed both her hands ‘cos I was so scared she was going to hit me! (Laughs)”
Joey, who did do the interview in the end, then explained her side of the story. “It was only two hours to show time and I thought it was very disrespectful to my performance, which is why I turned into the Hulk,” she quipped.
Other than that one incident, Joey shared that she’s generally very well-behaved with Mani and does her best to cooperate with her.
Photos: The Super Sisters/Weibo
