{"id":29690,"date":"2025-07-29T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29690\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:02:09","slug":"actor-elvin-ng-says-that-at-45-hes-at-awkward-phase-of-career-where-he-looks-too-young-to-play-dad-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29690\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Elvin Ng says that at 45, he\u2019s at awkward phase of career where he looks too young to play dad roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a difficult [question]. I&#8217;m now 45. The problem is, I can&#8217;t play dads because I still look like an idol,&#8221; he said matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n<p>However, when it comes to actual young idol roles, Ng said younger actors would get cast instead of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;m in a very awkward phase now,&#8221; he smirked. &#8220;But I think I&#8217;ll continue looking like this even when I&#8217;m 50 or 60. Then how?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ng&#8217;s showbiz pals were amused by the candid replies and easy chemistry between Ng and Quan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bold talk,&#8221; commented fellow actor Romeo Tan\u00a0while\u00a0Xiang Yun\u00a0left laughing-with-tears emojis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is a difficult [question]. I&#8217;m now 45. The problem is, I can&#8217;t play dads because I still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,480,134,28227],"class_list":{"0":"post-29690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-mediacorp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}