Miss Phuong Nga - unfinished cinema dream

Beautiful and sharp, considered "smart" by directors, but the beauty queen born in 1987 missed many opportunities in cinema.

In recent days, the trial of Miss Truong Ho Phuong Nga, who was accused of defrauding a businessman of more than 16 billion VND, has attracted public attention. Before her arrest, Phuong Nga was famous for her knowledge, ability to compose music, act, host shows... In particular, cinema was once a field in which beauty queens were considered to have many qualities to shine.

In 2011, during a casting session for his second film project - Father and Son and… - Truong Ho Phuong Nga (then not yet 24 years old) appeared with a "slim" figure and a sharp face. Her beauty quickly attracted the director.

Phuong Nga on the red carpet opening ceremony of Hanoi International Film Festival 2014.

“Nga’s face is very ‘cinematic’ and her acting is intelligent. For a director, meeting an intelligent actor is truly precious. Nga will be a new face in Vietnamese cinema if she gets a good role,” Phan Dang Di commented at that time.

Although there was no suitable role for Truong Ho Phuong Nga in Father and Son and…, the director took pictures and transferred her profile to another project, Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere. When seeing Phuong Nga's pictures, director Nguyen Hoang Diep was "a bit shocked" and had to exclaim: "It really... moved me."

When she came to Ho Chi Minh City to meet her in person and rehearse, Nguyen Hoang Diep was sure that Truong Ho Phuong Nga was her "muse" and the character Huyen of Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere she had been looking for all this time. At that time, Phuong Nga had spent two years training, two years waiting for the film to start filming, the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival was calling, the opportunity to travel around the world and the possibility of "covering" the national media was opening up before the beauty's eyes.

But in the blink of an eye, at the last minute, Phuong Nga refused the role because she was worried about the "hot scene" in the movie. Sad but unable to do anything else, Nguyen Hoang Diep gave that opportunity to the young actress Thuy Anh.

During that time, Phuong Nga was also considered for a film project about Tam Cam that director Phan Gia Nhat Linh was developing. He imagined Huynh Bich Phuong would be Tam and Phuong Nga would be Cam. The director filmed a test performance of both. However, due to some reasons related to production, this project was postponed indefinitely.

Director Phan Gia Nhat Linh commented on Phuong Nga in 2011: “I saw that Nga had potential, but at that time, she must have had some sad events, so the sadness radiated strongly. Even when she smiled, I could see that smile was tinged with sadness.”

Another project that Phuong Nga “failed” in the period 2011 - 2012 was the horror film Between Two Worlds by young director Vu Thai Hoa. Initially, he also chose Phuong Nga to play the female lead role with Dustin Nguyen. This horror film has quite a few “hot” scenes. After Truong Ho Phuong Nga refused for some personal reasons, the person who took on the female lead role of this work was Dinh Ngoc Diep.

Phuong Nga was the first choice for the role of Huyen in the movie "Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere" by female director Nguyen Hoang Diep.

Giving up a great opportunity to become a real actress in Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere, Truong Ho Phuong Nga still nurtures the dream of becoming an actress.. She still went to castings diligently. Quyen - a film adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Nguyen Van Tho - is a project Phuong Nga devoted a lot of effort to. She auditioned to the final round, and thought she would be chosen because she had many similarities with the main character. But at the last minute, the producer decided to choose actress Vu Ngoc Anh and sent Phuong Nga a rejection letter.

Appearing on the red carpet of the Hanoi International Film Festival in 2014, Phuong Nga was like a quiet shadow. She attended the opening, closing and sideline activities, dressed beautifully but was almost unnoticed. People only gasped in surprise when Phuong Nga was introduced as “Miss Vietnamese in Russia 2007”. At this time, she was rejected from the Quyen film project. Meanwhile, the film crew of Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere had just returned from the Venice Film Festival and continued to be honored in their homeland.

When asked about her decision to give up her role in Nguyen Hoang Diep’s project, Phuong Nga did not hesitate to share: “It’s a pity, a pity. But what can we do? Everyone makes wrong decisions and we have to accept our choices.”

Phuong Nga in the movie "The Soldier" - the movie she participated in in Russia.

The most recent film that Phuong Nga participated in, before being arrested in 2015, was Superman X by director Nguyen Quang Dung. However, she only participated in a special extra role, appearing briefly on screen, which perhaps now when mentioned, not many people remember that Miss Vietnam in Russia once acted in this film. Phuong Nga appeared on the set for three days, filming all night. Because she was not the main actress, she did not go into the room reserved for actors. But Phuong Nga also did not belong to the extras, so while waiting for the scene to be filmed, she just stood alone, lost.

Superman X was released during the 2015 Tet movie season. Just two months later, Truong Ho Phuong Nga was arrested on suspicion of fraud.

On June 26, director Nguyen Hoang Diep attended Truong Ho Phuong Nga’s trial in Ho Chi Minh City. She still calls Phuong Nga “my girl”. Phan Dang Di expressed: “I feel sorry for Nga and also regret that cinema was not strong enough to keep her before she got into this problem”.

* Miss Phuong Nga in court

According to VNE