Preoccupied Channel 3 is keeping a lady waiting

Her latest deal with the station has expired and she’s looking forward to inking another one, confident she’ll be sticking around. The only problem, she told reporters last week, was that the big boys at Channel 3 are preoccupied at the moment.
“I’m waiting for the phuyai,” she said, referring to a senior executive (any senior executive, please!). “But I understand that they’re all busy right now with the digital TV that’s coming up.” Yeah, we’ve heard something about that at The Nation.
Ploy declared firmly that she doesn’t want to work at any other channel because she’s happy right where she is. On the other hand, she wouldn’t mind reducing her workload to just one TV series a year.
“I’ve been doing three series a year and it’s very exhausting! I went to have my health checked and the results weren’t that good, so I want to take better care of myself and also have time to look after my grandma.”

Back in the swim
No wonder Ploy is cheery: She’s been getting some great feedback about her work. Her TV series “Samee Teeta”, currently running in primetime, has garnered good ratings, but it’s “Khid Thueng Wittaya” (“The Teacher’s Diary”), the movie she stars in that’s now showing in theatres, that’s generating the big buzz.
“I dream of becoming a Bt100-million actress, but maybe that’s too far-fetched,” she said.
Ploy has been tracking the flick’s box-office take and was thrilled to see Bt35 million worth of tickets sold in the first five days. “For a romance film, that’s not bad!” she beamed.
Regardless of how well it does, “The Teacher’s Diary” will always remind her of an important event in her life – she had to learn how to swim. The script had a swimming scene and Ploy was terrified due to an accident that occurred when she was still a kid. She’d nearly drowned while fishing with her dad and never dared go near the water again.
“But I had the support of the movie crew and figured maybe I could learn to swim after all,” she said. “I took lessons for about a week and, after that, I could swim!”
If you’ve already seen the movie, you know that Ploy shows no trace of her former phobia at all. So can we sign her up for the Olympic swim team? Ploy doesn’t rate herself quite that high, but she started from zero and can now swim – well, at least not drown. “And that’s the most wonderful gift GTH gave me,” she says of the film studio.