When he was writing the screenplay for Abang Adik, Ong Lay Jin had only one person in mind for the role of Adik—Jack Tan, whom he helped discover 15 years ago. The story goes like this: At 17, Tan accompanied his friend to an audition to become an artiste, and was only there to offer moral support. As they were about to leave, Tan was also asked to audition and got accepted into the artiste training programme.
Ong, who was part of the team at the academy, then took Tan over to Taiwan to film his first project, an idol TV series. The rest, as they say, is history.
(富都青年) is the story of two stateless orphans
