"Lo and Behold": 'Kam Sing On' Becomes a Dance King; 'Bookworm' Started Off as a Dancer and Was Aaron Kwok's Backup Dancer

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"Lo and Behold" has hidden talents. Last night's episode, "Dance King's Second Shadow", fully revealed an actor's potential. The story tells of 'Kam Sing On' (played by Chow Ka Lok), who is usually useless, accidentally becoming the 'Dance King of Hong Kong Island University' due to avoiding a cockroach. Later, his classmate, 'Bookworm' (played by Oman Lam), is discovered by 'On Jai' to have been secretly teaching him. It turns out that 'Bookworm' was once 'Dan God', but made a fool of himself during a performance when he exposed himself after splitting his pants when he was not wearing underwear, which left a shadow, and he stopped dancing. Later, 'On Jai' tries his best to put him on the stage again, achieving a collaborative dance in the end, which was amazing.

Oman actually started off as a dancer. He began doing street dance when he was 15 years old, specializing in hip hop, breakdancing, and social dancing. He used to perform as a backup dancer at concerts for Aaron Kwok, Eason Chan, Coco Lee, et al. Although Ka Lok was mainly using humour while being embodied by a cockroach, his dance moves were also rhythmical, and he seems to have a certain degree of dancing skills. Ka Lok expressed in a phone interview from Sky Post, "I took part in dance academies before. When studying in Australia, also had two years of elective dance courses. As for the rest, it was mostly self-taught online because I like the street dance styles of popping and locking. Think that robotic dancing is cool, so also practiced it. Muscles and bones are rather loose and flexible. I am not very good. Just good at imitating...not really good at dancing".

Ka Lok is grateful to the director, Emily, for notifying them two weeks before filming started; thus, he and Oman looked for the music and rehearsed the dance, practicing for approximately four to five days. When asked about having to split his legs for the 'falling seven' action many times in the series, Ka Lok said, "Really did this action many times on the day of filming. It was slightly painful, but there was no problem. It was okay!"

As for Oman, he frankly said that he was grateful to the producer, Lam Kin Cheung, the scriptwriter, the director, and Ka Lok. Although he came up with the dance steps this time, Ka Lok used a dramatic perspective to think of different movements to integrate into the music. He laughingly said, "Thought about how it felt when I was a dancer to help dance for the series. There was a scene about 'Bookworm''s past. When dancing, everyone was cheering and clapping below the stage. Really felt like performing a concert in the past. It belongs to the interaction between the performer and the audience". As for whether 'Bookworm' will develop a romantic storyline with 'Grace Chan' (played by Blossom Chan), Oman said, "It is not known yet. Have to wait for the producer and the scriptwriter to arrange it".

"Lo and Behold" Episode 981a

"Lo and Behold" Episode 981b

*Credits to skypost