A fine showman, Peter keeps the audience waiting
Rock-star-turned-actor Peter Corp Dyrendal was at the centre of another controversy last week after Thai Rath reported that he'd quit his new TV drama series "Sailab Rak Puan", in which he is/was set to play opposite Chermarn "Ploy" Boonyasak.
A fine showman, Peter keeps the audience waiting
ROCK-STAR-TURNED-actor Peter Corp Dyrendal was at the centre of another controversy last week after Thai Rath reported that he’d quit his new TV drama series “Sailab Rak Puan”, in which he is/was set to play opposite Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak. In fact he hadn’t even turned up for the first day of shooting, the Thai-language newspaper said.
It sounded like his no-show was the last straw for the production team, which began seriously thinking about looking for a replacement for the lead role. Rumours of Peter’s irresponsibility aren’t new. His last series, “Ab Rak Online”, was a hit in spite of his problems with punctuality, which earned him a bad reputation in TV production circles but, funnily enough, boosted his popularity as a bit of a rebel.
Not all is lost for Peter on “Sailab Rak Puan” at any rate, since our sister paper Kom Chad Luek is reporting that his job there is still secure and his absence hasn’t left the producers any less fond of him. He’s been given a second chance after promising it won’t happen again. And Ploy more or less confirms that all is well, telling Kom Chad Luek she’s heard of no changes to the cast.
Of course Ploy hasn’t started shooting her scenes yet, so she hasn’t met Peter on the set. “I have a film project at the moment and I’ve informed the team that my schedule for the series would start after Songkran.”
Volunteer moviemaking
Japanese rock star Makoto Koshinakha has often used the social media to connect with fans and promote his movies and music – he’s with Lucifer (the band, not the devil), but yesterday he put Twitter to good use stumping for cash still owed him by a Thai company.
Makoto appeared in the Thai-Japanese film “Fin Sugoi” (“Love Sud Jin Fin Sugoi” was the full title in Thai), but he says he never got paid. He tweeted (in Thai!) to his 26,000-plus followers a message from K-Project, his Japanese agency, asking “Miss Phakkamon Wittayarangsakul and Miss Punyanush Vorantitiphong” of Fin Project (their production company) to please pay Makoto’s acting fee.
The movie premiered last June and didn’t do well at the old box office. Opening-week earnings flagged at less than Bt6 million.
Makoto plays a superstar and love object for a besotted groupie, portrayed by Apinya “Saipan” Sukuljaroensuk. Saipan hasn’t said anything this week, but Tanwarin “Golf” Sukkhapisit, who directed the picture, tells Thai Rath that she wouldn’t mind getting a fresh cheque either.
“It’s possible he hasn’t received any money from the producer because I haven’t been paid in full either,” she says.
Asked how much she’s still owed, Golf declined to specify. “Millions, but how many millions – please don’t force me to go into detail.”
Golf is sympathetic toward the producers, though, noting they’re new to the business and had a flop on their hands, so they might be cash-strapped for now.
Well, we’re sympathetic toward Golf too, but, although it’s clear she has nothing to do with Makoto going unpaid, it ain’t pretty when the star of a movie she directed is begging for back wages in public.
