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When 8days.sg caught up with Yeoh after the awards show, she kept her responses brief, though her disappointment was apparent throughout the conversation.<\/p>\n
“To be honest, I had high expectations,” she confessed.<\/p>\n
We asked Yeoh what went through her mind when Chen’s name was called out instead of hers, and she didn\u2019t mince her words: “I wish there had been one more winner.”<\/p>\n
While she is inevitably “disappointed”, the actress asserted that she’s “still feeling proud to be part of this phenomenon” that is Emerald Hill and that this loss “does not affect [her] love for acting”.<\/p>\n
Of course, it helped that she received plenty of encouragement, not just from her peers, but from “everyone [she] knows”, including members of the public.<\/p>\n
“[They told me] through my socials, direct messages or WhatsApp and said I\u2019m already a winner in their hearts,” she told us.<\/p>\n
This year, Yeoh did not make any special effort to canvass for votes for a Top 10 spot. When asked if she\u2019d do anything differently in the future to improve her chances, the actress made it clear she has no plans to tweak her approach.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t think any changes makes a change [because] I heard my friends got all their [colleagues] to vote, even overseas offices,” she explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n