TRUTH or BARE? ASIAN MALE CELEBRITIES on NUDITY. "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better."

Peekaboo, baby.

Where did I hear this perk-up liner: “IF YOU HAVE A NICE ASS, FLAUNT IT”?

This Article explores the insights of a select group of ASIAN MALE CELEBRITIES who bared their ASSES for ART's sake, fighting for our attention.
Shall we say, "Put your best butt forward"?

It's hard to believe how much the world has transformed in the past decade.

THESE DAYS, even men are at it,

giving the female gender a competitive run for their money.

JANE AUSTEN was the author of the much-read literature-novel SENSE and SENSIBILITY. To borrow a pun from her, we are now touching on the subject of SEX and SEXUALITY or the WAR of the GENDERS.

In this time and age, it is common for men to strive to oust the women in the game of sex appeal and body beautiful.

15 years ago, it was deemed “sissy-ish” for men to adorn make-up and go for facials, but how time changes everything !

For the men, competition takes the form of the popular man-versus-female song “Anything you can do, I can do better !”

Look at the male pageants all over Asia where men dare strut the catwork displaying their well oiled and toned bodies in skimpy bathing trunks to conceal their precious “jewels”.

If you ask them to sashay butt-naked, I am sure there will be many who will be more than willing to oblige for the price of fame and fortune.

As always, the truth prevails when reality bites.

MIKE HE - PRINCE of TAIWAN SOAPS

MIKE HE Taiwan Actor

MIKE HE Taiwan Actor. (Blushing)
"I am really shy, truly I am."

MIKE HE - Being RAW is a Many-Splendored Thing

"I ENJOY READING IN THE BUFF" - MIKE HE

CHRIS WANG

Up-and- Fast Rising Actor

CHRIS WANG is PUTTING ON his BEST CUTE SMILE.

CHRIS is also a FASHION MODEL ON THE GO

A PENNY for your THOUGHTS, CHRIS!

CHRIS quips, "I am HIDING MY MODESTY 
behind this GIANT BOULDER."

This is CHRIS WANG.  

He thinks it is fun to be 

"BUTT NAKED AGAINST THE STARRY SKY."

ANDREW TAN

Malaysian Singer based in TAIPEI

ANDREW TAN asks coyly, "Do I look INNOCENT?"

ANDREW assures us that the MALE GENDER fares better.
"I AM GIVING MY FEMALE COMRADES 
A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY."

LOUNGING NAKED IN BED 
ON A LAZY WEEKEND 
is one of ANDREW'S fave pastimes.

ANDREW winks, "AFTER a GRINDING WORKOUT SESSION, what else to look forward to but a WARM SHOWER?"

BYRON PANG

Hong Kong Actor and Action Choreographer

BYRON PANG is the ever gregarious PROFESSIONAL who's willing to put his best BUTT forward. After all, it's ART.

BYRON in deep thoughts before hitting the GYM's SHOWER ROOM after a grueling WORKOUT.
"HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU ALL, PEEPS!"

In SUMMARY, they are all young and willing to let their hair down to enjoy life's finer moments and opportunities. You can only be young once.

"VOTE FOR ME and TOUCH MY SOUL," they all implore.

BYRON PANG 彭罡原. Best New Actor NOMINEE for the 30th HONG KONG FILM AWARDS 2011. “In LIFE, every ACTOR will have his own SONG to SING.”

It has been an aesthetic pleasure working with Hong Kong ace fashion photographer PATRICK LAM to produce these stunning shots. I urged Patrick that BYRON PANG should be styled with a touch of elegance, at the same time enhancing his gritty boy-next-door looks. Patrick has not only done what I envisioned, but has created an amazing balance. Thanks, Patrick.

BYRON has worked on a gamut of roles, ranging from an invincible SWORDSMAN to a SHAOLIN MONK.

He has received focus training in the art of WUSHU for more than 10 years.

He speaks impeccable MANDARIN (with a clear TAIWANESE accent), ENGLISH, and naturally, CANTONESE.

“I relish a true sense of adventure and danger. I love competitive sports such as Martial Arts (Wushu), parachuting, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, mountain biking, car racing and deep sea diving. I have tried them all.”

BYRON PANG 彭罡原

Fashion Photography by PATRICK LAM (Hong Kong)

Whatever happened to cherubic BYRON PANG since his lead role in AMPHETAMINE 安非他命?

Lots, really.

Right now he’s a Best New Actor NOMINEE for the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards 2011.

Of course, he’s deliriously happy.

Hard work has paid off, and he’s being recognized now as a serious actor and not just a pretty face.

For the last many months, he has been attending the renowned festival circuits promoting AMPHETAMINE his debut feature film with him in the leading role.

So he’s been travelling, spending time mostly out of Hong Kong.

He’s trying his hand at writing a script, but please, no further comments as he’s keeping mum at this moment.

He’s also considering a European art house feature which would take him out of Hong Kong for a period of time.

His diary is full.

His manager is sieving through several scripts on hand, from around the region and he knows he’s going to be pretty busy the entire 2011 with the ongoing line-ups.

He is quoting MARIA ROBINSON’s verse when he says, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anyone can start TODAY and make a new ENDING”.

Right.

“I am like this bird that’s setting its hopes high because there’s a song to be sung if we all work hard,” he beams brightly.

“Every man sings his own song, and in life, you don’t just wait.” he adds.

BYRON reads Chinese philosophy.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it’s not open” is his rationale at sensible experimenting before deciding on the straight path.

“Be your own soul, learn to live” is his motto for the thrills and spins in dangerous sports.

“And if malicious people thwart you, take no heed. If they hate you, have no care.” He had his fair share of foul mouthing and bad press and he learns now to cope better.

Sing your song, dream your dream,

hope your hope

and pray your prayer.

Because every actor has his own song to sing, he sums up.

ACTORS. A TIME FOR REFLECTION. A TIME FOR THE GREAT CALM.

So you are an ACTOR and you have your set of problems too?

Don’t we all?

LIFE HAS IT HARD KNOCKS,

We face these from time to time.

What would you do when you find that your entire emotional world collapses around you, and that you are left alone to fend for yourself ….

that you have fallen from your pedestal ….

that producers and directors are eluding you ….

and that fortune and fans are out of your grasp?

You cannot hang on to glory and fame forever,

Every dog has its day,

you have come to realize this now …

Where’s your “icy cool facade” you once adopted?

It’s not going to be easy, but you are this ACTOR, and you must play your card well.

Pride and anguish, you must embrace in one stride.

You are in the acting profession, all the world is a stage and all men and women are merely players.

Everyone has his own exits and entrances.

Whatever it is, you must find always, a time for the great “calm”, a time to reinvent, maybe to improve your acting skills.

There should be a time for reflection, to look back with few regrets, to change positively, and then move on.

FRANCIS BACON described it aptly when he wrote:

“Little do men perceive what solitude is,

and how far it extendeth.

For a crowd is not company,

and faces are but a gallery of pictures,

and talk but a tinkling cymbal,

where there is no love.”

Chill, but take note, chum.