“When she eventually started the role in Lion Mums, when I was about 11, she was going out a bit more. Then I asked her, ‘I know what Pa does for a living, what do you do?’,” said Lam.
That simple question led to quite the discovery.
“There was one day I Googled ‘Lina Ng’ and I was like, ‘Huh? This person is my Ma?’,” he recalled, still sounding amused by the memory.
Curious, he turned to Ng for answers – and she responded by pulling out a photo album filled with her old acting stills. But in true Gen Z fashion, Lam had a harder time explaining the next part.
“She showed me clips of her past work on… I don’t know what you call it, the disc [where you can see the] rainbow reflection,” he said, clearly referring to CD-ROMS.
