DaraDaily: June 9, 2009

The new nang’ek “Gigi Jomkwan” was quickly removed from the lakorn “Plerng See Roong” because she doesn’t match with the pra’ek, Smart Krissada. Therefore, Broadcast Thai Television decided to fix this by replacing her with a nang’ek from their production, “Susie Susiera” instead.

Many people on the internet were going against the decision of having Gigi portray the nang’ek in this lakorn because she’s only 15 years old. The role is also very difficult for Gigi because there’s going to be arguments and kiss/slap scenes throughout the whole lakorn. In addition, she will have to be beat up by the pra’ek and miscarried her baby. Even though she already acted in the lakorn “Payong,” but because the role in that lakorn was similar to her in real life, it was not a problem. They also said that Gigi’s acting isn’t at that level yet, it’s necessary for her to learn more acting first.

As for the pra’ek, Smart, he once gave an interview saying that he was worried about having to act with a new actress like Gigi. Smart said:

“If you asked what I’m worried about, I’m worried about the emotional scenes because I don’t know whether our argument scenes will reach that level or not. Honestly, I’m both worried about her and myself, I’m afraid of doing an argument scene with her because she’s a small person, when I have to touch her, I’m afraid that she’ll get hurt.”

From the different news sources, this was the reason as to why Broadcast had to removed Gigi and replaced her with Susie instead. Due to Susie’s age, looks, and physical features, she seems to match more with Smart than Gigi, plus she used to be the supporting actress from the lakorn “Seur Ruk Chuk Yai Onlawong.” The reasons as to why they changed the nang’ek was heard from a trusted inside source, but Broadcast gave another reason by saying that they changed the nang’ek because Gigi was busy with school.

“Plerng See Roong is 20% finished, there were no problems with the schedule because our filming days are from Monday – Wednesday. It’s true that we changed the nang’ek from Gigi to Susie but it’s because Gigi had to travel out of Bangkok everyday to attend school in another city. Her mother had to drive her so it wasn’t a convenient time for her. We didn’t have to start the filming over because Gigi only filmed two scenes, so maybe in the future, we’ll get to work with her again. As for changing the nang’ek to Susie, even though she’s new, but she’s Okay, she normally could act very well.”