Hollywood actress and former star of hit TV drama
series ”E.R”, Ming
Na, reveals she is toying with the idea of moving to
Singapore.
The star of movies such as The
Joy Luck Club,
Street Fighter and One
Night Stand told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview
that she’s keen to follow in the footsteps of Chinese actors
Jet Li and
Gong Li, who recently took up Singapore citizenship.
“I really love Singapore,” said the 46-year-old Chinese
American.
Remembering her last visit to Singapore, she said, “It was
11 years ago! I was there for a play, the Asian premiere of David
Hwang’s Golden Child at the Victoria Theatre.”
“When I was in Singapore, I thought it was absolutely the
perfect place to retire. It might be a good dream to retire there
some day. The weather [in Singapore] is so good and everywhere is
clean. I can’t believe how the malls can sell the best food,
especially the food courts. I wished we had that in the States,”
she said.
Born in Macau, Na and her family immigrated to the U.S. when she
was at the tender age of four. Today, she lives in Los Angeles with
her husband, Eric Michael Zee and two children, Michaela, 10, and
Cooper, 5.
Speaking to Yahoo! SEA on the set of a new sci-fi show on
Syfy Universal in Vancouver, Canada, Na shares her views about
Singapore.
In the soon-to-be launched science fiction drama series
Stargate Universe (SGU), Na plays the character of Camile Wray,
a high-ranking official onboard the “Destiny” spaceship.
The series is loosely based on the hit 1994 movie,
Stargate, which grossed over US$200 million worldwide and which has
since given rise to several TV spin-offs.
In her own words, Ming Na admits she is a self-professed
sci-fi fan nut.
“My ultimate dream is to be in a Star Wars movie, and it still
is. George Lucas, hello. Ming Na here”, she laughed. “I used to be
president of the sci-fi club in school so I don’t think you can be
any more of a sci-fi geek than that.”
From left: Jamil Walker Smith, Ming Na, Louis Ferreira,
Elyse Levesque, Robert Carlyle, Brian J. Smith, Alaina Huffman,
David Blue and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Together with the star-studded cast comprising
Robert Carlyle,
Lou Diamond Phillips,
Brian J. Smith,
David Blue,
Elyse Levesque,
Louis Ferreira,
Alaina Huffman, and
Jamil Walker Smith, SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists
and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced
through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack.
The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is
locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Faced
with meeting the most basic needs of food, water and air, the group
must unlock the secrets of the ship’s Stargate to survive.
Na describes her colleagues as a “wonderful ensemble”.
“The cast, crew and producers are a wonderful bunch of people to
work with,” she said.
“I want to be able to come to a job where I like the people and
the work too since I am going to sacrifice my time away from my
family travelling from LA to Vancouver,” she added.
Stargate Universe Premieres exclusively on Syfy in Asia on
26 July, every Monday @ 10pm (SIN, HK), 9pm (JKT, TH) on Starhub
channel 526.
