Jonathan Fam

“We have to open the sliding door because Shu Qi doesn’t like aircon,” said a PR minder just a few minutes before our interview with the 49-year-old actress-turned-director. A murmur of acknowledgment spread throughout the group of journalists, all suddenly giddy with excitement that they’ve become privy to this unknown fact about Shu Qi. Shu Qi doesn’t like aircon. Who knew? It would be one of the few personal things 8days.sg would learn about the Taiwanese star during the chat.

“We have to open the sliding door because Shu Qi doesn’t like aircon,” says a PR minder just a few minutes before our interview with the 49-year-old actress-turned-director. A murmur of acknowledgment spreads throughout the group of journalists, all suddenly giddy with excitement that they’ve become privy to this unknown factoid about Shu Qi. Shu Qi doesn’t like aircon. Who knew? It would be one of the few personal things 8days.sg would learn about the Taiwanese star during the chat.

For someone who never thought she would be a mum, Rebecca Lim sure is on a baby-making roll. The 39-year-old Mediacorp actress is now four months pregnant with her second baby with her husband of three years, Matthew Webster. Their first kid, a boy, was born in January 2024. “I never thought I would have one so to have two, is very… mind-blowing,” she laughs over the phone with 8days.sg this morning (Nov 11). “Sometimes I forget that I’m pregnant.