Miss Saigon on Track for Film Treatment — Page 5

It's either a televised interview or in one of her blogs where she spoke about it. Go to Lea's multiply.com site or wherever she keeps her blogs. In one of her entries, she even stated that for a New Year's resolution, she'd try to improve her written and spoken Tagalog.

I don't know where you're getting your info, but not all Salongas in the world are related to Jovito Salonga: Feliciano Salonga is not related to JS at all.

That's a huge misconception about Lea: she has no blood ties to Sen. Salonga whatsoever.

Updated On: 10/29/09 at 12:12 AM

Your welcome. I knew she mentioned it in one of her articles. I didn't go searching thru every one. I was just lucky to find it quick.

i dont know why kim has to have an american accent. you probably meant no accent at all. and good diction. i dont think charice has an accent at all and she has good diction when she's singing. besides, miss saigon is almost "sung-thru".

Jake G is a good actor but I'm afraid he is a little too old for whoever will be playing Kim.

And as far as Accents go! Even American Accent differs from region to region. new England accent is way different from Georgian accent, New Orleans, New Mexico and Ebonics. Does that mean they aren't American too? So what is the proper American accent I wonder?

And about the streotyping of Asians...That's sooo 1960's we have progressed as a society to a point that you see Asian Americans in Entertainment nowadays that "doesn't play any of the old Stereotypes."

Now off course its only valid if the person who said about the accent anyways is on a cocoon and never watches any curent Television and is stucked in the 1960's and 1970's world.

Updated On: 10/29/09 at 02:04 PM

Jake's 28 IIRC so he'd technically be the right age for Chris, but you're right in that it could be creepy if Kim is played by a young-looking girl.

I was wondering about Coco Lee for Gigi, haha. Too old? I always thought Gigi was older, but maybe not.

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Just do not let Rob Marshall anywhere near it.

I wonder where it will be filmed.

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Kim says "We were promised at 13," implying both were 13.

I was actually thinking of Jasmine Trias! When I saw her back on AI I thought she'd make a good Kim.

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"Daniel Dae Kim would be a good Thuy if he was younger. It is implied that Thuy and Kim are around the same age. "

No, it's not. We only know that they are cousins. His high-ranking military position would make him (most likely) older than Kim. I would hazard a guess he's around Chris' or John's age.


Yah i have to agree with Fosse on this one.

Usually the girl is younger than the boy in arrange marriages.

Sorry malia, I guess I did mean no accent. It's true Charice doesn't have much of an accent when she sings, but it's very obvious when she talks. And I didn't expect the Miss Saigon movie to be sung thru, making it exactly like the musical. I imagined it as mostly dialogue with some songs included.

Dshar, I didn't want to get into an argument again. But film and television still has Asian sterotypes. Most Asian men aren't stars of a movie unless they are martial artists - Jet Li and Jackie Chan. And there's my "favorite" example of a goofy Asian, Long Duk Dong in 16 Candles (1984). I don't watch Heroes, but I know that Asian guy in the show speaks much better English in real life. I remember more bit parts in other movies of an Asian speaking broken English as comic relief. The order taker in Dude, Where's My Car (2000), a man screaming on a pay phone in Cellular, and another screaming Asian guy in a Six Flags commercial (More flags! More fun!!!). I dunno why I remember these things. Maybe because I was so embarrassed when I saw it, and it has just stuck with me.

Haha, I don't know why I'm so caught up on accents.

ms saigon and les miz, those two shows i cant imagine not sung through.

Dshar, I'm not saying that other Asian Americans can't play the role. Of course they can. Am just saying there's a possibility that they will head to the Philippines and scout talents.

"Kim says "We were promised at 13," implying both were 13."

While that may true, it still doesn't make much sense, as far as Thuy's storyline goes (a Commissar at 20?). She could simply be referring to her age...but you are right,it does imply they are both the same age.