Kevin Cheng Shouts Profanity on Set of “Hua Xu Yin”?

Acclaimed for his portrayal of the slothful Law Ba in Ghetto Justice <怒火街頭> and supported by the success of hit mainland series Bu Bu Jing Xin <步步驚心>, Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎) has changed from a TVB siu sang to a Chinese television superstar in just one year. With a 250,000 RMB per episode salary and his own production company in the making, Kevin has become Hong Kong’s highest-earning television actor in China. But what has all of this fame and fortune done to Kevin Cheng? Some say it definitely did not make him a better person.

Oriental Sunday reported that Kevin has become a “complete jerk” to his costars and crew members on the Hengdian World Studios set of mainland Chinese fantasy drama, Hua Xu Yin <華胥引>. A source revealed that Kevin’s language was vulgar (always “sending regards” to their mothers) and was often late to work. In a scene where Kevin is to be buried by an avalanche of rocks, Kevin shouted Cantonese profanity at a crew member when a paper rock landed on his face.

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“XXX! Watch my face!” Kevin reportedly shouted.

After a few more takes of the rock avalanche scene, Kevin claimed he had injured himself and halted production for an hour while he rested in his motor home.

When filming resumed, it was said that the crew member whom Kevin shouted at “avenged himself” and continued to throw rocks at Kevin, ignoring his crude warning.

An insider said, “Those who had worked with Kevin Cheng before mentioned that he had a poor attitude. He would yell at people for no reason. We all knew he had the nickname ‘Prince Wing’ when he was in Hong Kong, so we all warned each other to be careful when working with him.” The insider also mentioned that Kevin was late to his first day of filming Hua Xu Yin.

Another insider said, “Kevin is never really satisfied at what he does. He’s always late and very demanding. One time, he caught an extra [actor] daydreaming and he yelled at the actor for having no brains. No one likes [Kevin].”

This was not the first time when Kevin was faced with rumors about his character. Kevin’s Gloves Come Off <拳王> costar, Sin Ho Ying (冼灝英), had complained about Kevin’s “self-centered” personality. Sin had said,“He is a smart guy and delivers good results onscreen, [but he] has poor character!”

Source: Oriental Sunday #809 via ihktv.com

This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.

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  1. So paper rocks get thrown in his face and the extra was daydreaming, but it’s Kevin with the bad attitude? Okay…

    I don’t think Kevin is an angel or anything, but I think his introverted personality gets misinterpreted as him being not friendly.

    1. you probably did not read the report that purported he kicked someone in the groin and walked away with no words of apologies(accident or not), while the poor guy was groaning in pain on the floor

      1. lol, no I did not read that. I don’t think I would have believed it either since it seems so ridiculous.

      2. not sure how true but the reporter definitely took pictures of it….and claimed Kenneth Mah was there, trying to help the poor guy up…Anyhow, its not the first time i hear such negative reports about Kevin….there must be some elements of truth…no matter how little…

    2. To every celebrity, their face is their fortune. If this ‘helper’ deliberately threw those paper rocks at him, then Kevin certainly has the right to shout back at him. It’s common for Kevin’s introverted personality (to the public) to be misunderstood. I don’t believe he will shout and act bossy, he could be late on a number of occasions but has anyone clarified why he was late ??

      These trash magazines love to cook up a story whenever they have a chance or could it be that fella really was daydreaming and threw the paper rock at Kevin and KC just reacted.

      1. >To every celebrity, their face is their fortune. If this ‘helper’ deliberately threw those paper rocks at him, then Kevin certainly has the right to shout back at him.

        Yes. I agree with everything here. Actors don’t have the same priorities as us normal folk. Just like how actors can spend a few thousand a week eating out or buying a real fast car and not bat an eyelid, when their face/body is in danger then they have every right to get pissed as a monkey with fireants all over his…

        …because that’s their selling point and source of their livelihood.

  2. I don’t believe it. I can believe the profanity and maybe late for work but I don’t believe the poor attitude. Everybody has their off days, like Christian Bale with his “We are professionally done!” screams but no, I don’t believe it was and is continous.

    1. agree with funn! don’t believe this! what magazine is this trying to slander kevin? nobody will believe this fake thing! besides who don’t get angry at a daydreaming staff? that’s normal!

    2. perhaps someone at TVB wants to leak crap about Kevin lol 😛

      i think Kevin may just be stressed… everyone gets frustrated when they’re stressed out; especially the perfectionists / personality A types.
      (e.g. when he’s never happy with what he does, thinking it can always be better etc)

      1. Agreed, I’m sure Kevin must be very stressed facing many obstacles (people playing dirty tricks, things not going smoothly, slackers, etc.) with his startup production company.

        I didn’t hear much negative news about Kevin until after his plans for his own production company. So, negative news like this is questionable.

    3. It does make you wonder why there are always news about Kevin’s bad attitude. Why not actors like Raymond Lam or Kenneth Ma? He seems like a nice guy, but with all these news, I really do believe he’s arrogant and snobby. I dont think he has any friends in TVB.

      1. Kenneth is Kevin’s friend. Besides Kenneth, Jazz, Natalie, Myolie, Ben and Raymond Cho are all Kevin’s friends.

      2. Jake2, you are wrong. He has friends, like what joey said. It is impossible for a person to not have even a friend.

        Look at Ron Ng, a lot of bad news about him, and everyone knows he is a jerk, but he still has friends. being a jerk does not mean he has no friends.

      3. Ron may be quite easy when it comes to women, but you rarely hear anything bad about him besides that. He seems to get along well with people in most cases.

      4. Nicole,

        It seems you didn’t get my point. What I meant was no matter how bad a person is, he/she still has a friend–at least one friend. Everyone has a bad side and a good side. For example, Ron Ng’s bad side is that he is a womanizer, so does it mean he can’t be friends with a woman? Of course he can. That’s is why I said Jake2 was wrong. Even if Kevin is arrogant and snobby, it doesn’t mean he does not have friends. And he has friends does not mean he is a good person. To put it simply, whether a person is good or not does not depend on whether the person has friends or not because logically a person has a friend–at least one. So Jake2’s argument does not make sense.

        Beside criticizing Jake2, I also support his comment on Kevin by criticizing joey. joey said he has friends such as Kenneth, Myolie, etc, the question is: so what? He has friends does not mean he is not arrogant and snobby.

        “Why are you so sure Ron is a jerk?”

        Do you live in a cave?

      5. By the way, what I meant by ‘friends’ included acquaintances, colleagues, real friends, regular friends, etc.

      6. What I meant by friends – only close and real friends. I don’t consider colleagues and acquaintances as friends. If you consider colleagues as friends, everyone who has a job has friends and it is pointless to include colleagues as friends.

        I believe when Jake2 said he thinks Kevin has no friends, he was referring to close friends.

        And No, I do not live in a cave. I just don’t see Ron as a jerk, but as a guy who can’t control his sexual desires.

      7. Actually, my comment was directed to your comment on ron being a jerk, as the usage of “jerk” as a philandering womanizer was not expressed in your original post, so i assumed it was being used in a more general manner, like ron is an all around bad human being.
        Take it this way, if i say “kevin is a jerk”, how would you interpret that sentence?

        Im not commenting on whether or not anyone has friends, or not have friends, and whether being a snob/jerk/womanizer will lead to him being friendless.

      8. Just because Ron is not the world’s best boyfriend does not mean he is a horrible person. Besides that womanizing stuff, I have not heard a bad thing about Ron. He seems to get along well with most people.

        You are wrong Jake2 and Kevin does have friends in TVB.

      9. How do you any of you know for sure that Kevin does not have any close friends?? I am sure he probably does, but they are not from the circle so no one knows about them.

      10. Kevin does have close friends — Raymond Cho and Ben Wong are 2 such friends (well, technically, the two of them are more like Kevin’s ‘brothers’ than friends, but you get the point). All three of them have talked about their friendship in past interviews (and for those who question whether they are truly friends or not — um, well, why would they need to lie about that kind of stuff?). I’m not a Kevin fan at all (in fact, I don’t even like him as an actor), yet even I know he has friends….

  3. Who doesn’t lose their temper every now and then??? Who doesn’t shout profanity every now and then?? I can believe the temper part, but not sure about the profanity part.

  4. I think the main theme of this article is that Kevin Cheng seems to lose his temper easily, not really about the profanity. Kevin Cheng is human.. so he’s understandable that he would shout profanity or lose his temper.

  5. I think Kevin is probably being professional and strict and could not tolerate another actor daydreaming. From what I know about Kevin, he doesn’t seem like the type to lose his temper that easily. But then again, I don’t know him personally so am not sure.

  6. This sounds too exaggerated. Haha well I personally think Kevin is just being professional!!

    1. Or maybe you should dig up other news about his attitude. I mean, one article might be ******. But with so many out there, something is definitely wrong with him.

  7. i think he does only earn 250,000k an ep before there was articles saying his earning 600,000k an ep

  8. someone should tell these tabloids that nobody really cares if kevin cheng or any other celebrity for that matter uses profanity or is a jerk, ’cause at the end of the day they are still gonna go watch their show

  9. Just started reading ‘Hua Xu Yin’. I was surprised by the writing. I didn’t expect it to be so funny. I wonder if the humour will be translated to the screen or not. Some viewers might think it too silly for an ancient drama.

  10. well he is popular now. he seems like one of those people. what a diva.

  11. why is he so popular? his acting isn’t good. it’s boring…

    1. Because the HK media says he’s popular, that’s why LOL!

      Most people in Mainland either have no clue who he is or sees him as just another HK uncle coming to dig gold.

      He has not done anything significant since he got lucky with landing a spot in BBJX thanks to TVB’s pull with the director who happened to be from HK.

      1. Hk media doesn’t pay him. China companies do, they pay someone who is not popular so much money? Funny

      2. China companies does not report how much they pay him, HK media does with all sorts of exaggeration and inaccuracy. Funny.

      3. Forbes china report Kevin make 31 million last year. You only read what Hk media say? Poor you. So funny.

      4. And if you read the disclaimers in Forbes, which I am sure you don’t even know where they are on its pages, it states “salary” info is provided by the celeb’s management, which in this “uncle’s” case, it’s the infamous TVB,a HK media company. They also states such info is unverifiable.

        As with most things, getting these types of sensitive info from China is next to impossible. So don’t tell me you actually thought Forbes, a US publication, would have access to more details on this than the HK media in this regard. Funny!

      5. Funny make the salary even higher to make much noise. Only 30 million middle of list. News say he make 50 million each time he film drama. But tvb say he make only 31 million? Funny tvb lie, news lie, forbes lie, but you know truth.

  12. They have turned Kevin into a monster in such a short while and the whole thing’s incredible and exaggerated. Can’t believe that he would ruin his so far untarred reputation just for a few rocks falling on his face.

  13. He’s probably scared to death of anything around his face since that whole eye accident happened.
    Although this isn’t the first time he has had reports of being hard to be around while filming. I wonder if he is just super focused during filming and “all business no fun” which would explain why he has a short temper on set.

  14. I used to think that he was a nice guy that was just a little bit introverted and quiet. But then I started to doubt it a few years ago when I was told by my friend who works in Astro that he has an attitude problem. I’m from Malaysia, and my friend told me that she was told by her superior to be careful of him when he visited Malaysia a few years. I forgot which year, but it was before he got the best actor award. Her superior said that he was actually quite arrogant when the camera was off and became very angry easily towards the crew behind the scene or when filming. This had happened once before he came at that time, so her superior advised my friend to stay away from him when working. My friend did, lol. Fortunately, nothing happened to my friend as she tried to avoid him as can as possible, but since my friend only had to meet and work with him only for a few hours, she didn’t see any anger suddenly shown by Kevin although he sounds a bit arrogant when talking to my friend and her colleagues. Because of this, my friend then said to me she wonder whether Kevin would suddenly show anger to her and her colleagues or not if they had to work with him everyday. The same thing was also told and advised regarding Bernice Liu. Thus, my friend again tried to avoid her as can as possible, and nothing happened but she saw that Bernice scolded her personal assistant consistently. You know, like something small matters occur, then she scolds her assistant. But she is less likely to scold unknown people that are not under her, like my friend and her colleagues. My friend also met Gigi Lai before but said she was okay in terms of personality. She behaves moderately–not too friendly but also not arrogant. This was when she came to Malaysia for the Bio-Essence promotion. Only three of them my friend met; she has no chance to meet other HK artists when working.

    Back to this article, I think Kevin actually has a bit of attitude problem (though there are others worse than him). I also used to think he was nice and didn’t believe what HK media said, but I then doubted it after many people said the same thing about him. Even his fans (who are my friends) also said he ignored them when they screamed at Kevin to make him look over my friends because they wanted to take picture of him. At that time, no camera was on yet since the crew was still arranging all the equipments. And then when Sin Ho Ying complained about him, I started to think he was not that nice as I thought since there is no point for Sin Ho Ying to bring Kevin into disrepute. If famous artists such as Raymond Lam or Ron Ng complain, then I believe they try to bring him into disrepute because of jobs and opportunities, or maybe Wang He who was believed to be hard to work with, but Sin Ho Ying complained for what? To save face because he is older? And now even china’s media also complained about him. I think we try too hard to close one eye and open another eye when there is Kevin’s bad news, which is a little bit biased actually. And calling a person having no brains just because the person was daydreaming?

    To all his fans out there who are female, wake up before ending like Raymond Lam’s fans who are full of hatred. Look at what happened to Linda Wong. And see how her father even complained about him. This guy may or may not be a good actor since acting is very subjective, but his real personality is really in doubt.

    1. Sin ho ying was the one who beat up pierre ngo?
      I would hardly find him a calm and impartial judge of character. He complained because hes an idiot. Just like how he beat up pierre for no particular reason.

      1. Sin Ho Ying seems like a straight forward person. So I doubt he’ll make up stories about Kevin. And about the Pierre Ngo incident, we have no idea what actually happened between both of them so we cant judge too quickly.

      2. Beside Sin Ho Ying, there was another man who also complained about Kevin. It is a veteran, and I don’t think that guy has bad news or bad attitude. It is the first time I saw him complaining an artist (at least publicly), especially a first lead actor.

        And I’m not sure about the real story about the Sin Ho Ying beat Pierre Ngo thing, but as far as I know, he beat Pierre because Pierre betrayed him since he is Pierre’s master of boxing. So can’t totally put all the blame on Sin Ho Ying. But unless we know the real story, who knows what happened actually? And just because Sin Ho Ying is bad does not mean he is bad at everything. TBH, I also doubt Kevin’s real personality sometimes. But who cares as long as girl fans find him handsome? I mean, this is an entertainment industry after all. It’s all about fantasy. Grow up, people.

      3. Funny, when eric tsang hit kenny wong, everyone bash him, because they dont like him. now to support your argument that kevin is a horrible person, you turn around and say that sin ho ying, for beating up someone, should not be judged? Haha, someone who resorts to fists, regardless of reason, isnt a person who would work things out with words calmly.

      4. Agree with Jake2 (just saw his/her comment after I posted mine above).

      5. You mean this guy?

        Produced by Zhejiang Satellite Television and Zhejiang Greentown Culture and Media, The Four Scholars of Jiangnan is directed by Stephen Chow’s (周星馳) longtime collaborator, Lee Lik Chi (李力持).

        Lik Chi revealed that Kevin Cheng was initially cast in mainland drama, The Four Scholars of Jiangnan , however due to conflict in schedules, Hawick Lau (劉愷威) was cast instead.

        Asked about Kevin Cheng’s Mandarin skills, Lee Lik Chi said, “You go and ask him yourself. Anyway, if you cannot speak good Mandarin, how can you communicate and get along with your team mates, not to mention demanding a fee of 500,000 RMB!”

        -cough- he wants to cast kevin. He didnt like the 500,000 rmb price tag. So made some remarks about kevin not being worth that amount? Do note that he was the one who wanted to cast kevin. If hes so horrid, why even try casting him in the first place?

      6. Not him, it a TVB veteran. He revealed Kevin’s attitude after Sin Ho Ying complained Kevin.

      7. Nicole,

        I think Lee Lik Chi wanted to cast Kevin because he is balanced in terms of popularity and salary. If I were in Lee Lik Chi’s position, I would cast an actor who is popular but at the same time demands a low salary. At first glance, Kevin fulfiled these criteria. If we were to cast a mainland actor, then obviously the actor would demand a high salary because he was popular. If we were to cast a TVB actor, then it would be possible that the actor was not popular enough to attract the audience despite low salary. Kevin is well known in china compared to other TVB actors, and his salary is the lowest compared to other mainland actors, so casting him is the best manipulation in order to earn money. But then Kevin demanded 500,000 rmb, Lee Lik Chi of course was not stupid, so he didn’t not choose Kevin at the end but Hawick Lau instead. I doubt Lee Lik Chi cares about whether Kevin’s mandarin is good enough for filming since it can be dubbed, but if you don’t know mandarin, it is not appropriate to demand a high salary since you need to communicate with the teammates as well. I think Kevin’s attitude angered Lee Lik Chi because of demanding a high salary despite lacking a good command of mandarin. Unless having a good command of mandarin, it does not make sense to increase the salary just because it is asked to increase.

        Nicole, this is just my opinion from a business point of view. What about yours?

      8. Pretty sure Sin Ho Ying was drunk when he beat him up. That is never ok and pretty screwed up.
        I also read that there was no formal ceremony to be his Sifu (not like he’s some master kung fu artist anyway), and it’s not like this is Ancient China. Getting slightly annoyed or angry is the most you could expect from something small like that. – Not beating him up while drunk for something he didn’t know he did.
        Not a very nice guy IMO.

    2. @Hoo,
      Thanks for your info but you know, you still don’t know Kevin really well so I do not think you should go on and on about how bad he is. You can know someone your whole life and not know them well, so just based on a few things that you heard, you immediately think Kevin is a bad person. Don’t even talk about Linda’s father since he is not a good man. Honestly, I don’t think Linda is that fond of her father either, but it is her father so she has no choice. I remember her saying that she would never choose a husband that was like her father. Her father just said that Kevin is not successful and could not provide for his daughter, so that does not make him a bad person.

      Who is perfect in this world? Who does not have flaws??? Also, when you meet someone only a few times, do you truly know how they really are???

      1. And how you know Linda’s father is not a good man when you have never met his father before or known him personally. Because Linda said so? Have you met or known Linda as well? Who knows maybe she was a rebellious girl who talks back at his father, smokes and takes drugs with Kevin when she was young?

        I don’t know why all the persons that complained about Kevin are bashed as bad people, and then their complaints about Kevin’s attitude are claimed to be invalid because they are bad people. Well, an entertainment industry…

      2. @galaxy – good job!!

        obviously HeTieShou is Kevin’s fan lol.

  15. never liked kevin cheng,his face is quite agressive and arrogant so his deed fits precisely according to his face.

  16. I only can judge Kevin with my own vibe. I don’t think he’s a good person but I wouldn’t say he’s evil. He does look fake to me and I can tell he does have attitude problem such as looking down on people and think highly in him. His former singing teacher did not get along with Kevin b/c of his attitude.

    If I were to compare Kevin and Wayne Lai -Wayne is more of an authentic person. He doesn’t think highly in himself.

    I judge people by just looking at their face. I can tell Kevin can be agreesive and arrogant. I honestly don’t think Kevin is handsome and I don’t think his acting is good (even he won the best actor but it doesn’t mean he’s good -sometimes award is fake). I’m not rating Kevin by his age because Derick Wan and Hawick Lau are old too but they are handsome.

    1. Sorry but have you ever heard of the saying “looks can be deceiving”??? Some may look mean or whatever, but aren’t while some can look nice but are not nice at all… You cannot just judge someone based on their outer appearance. In some cases, there can be some truth to it, but in other cases, not really….

      1. Also, looks are subjective just like acting or anything. Hawick has had PS, so not sure if it is fair to rate him compared to others who are more natural.

      2. hts and have ever heard the chinese saying “face is by the heart and life”? the way you think and your deeds will be reflected on the face. i dont say i can judge all the ppl faces by only read there faces but there are definitely some connection between someone’s face and character.

    2. yes look can be deceiving. Alot of time we also have to use our heart to see and feel for people especially for celebrity because we don’t know them so if I don’t judge them by my own vibes than by what? I’ve met Hawick when he was very young before joining the industry (I was just giving example of me not juding Kevin by his age). Chi Lam/Leslie Cheung is/was handsome for their age. You may think Kevin is handsome but I don’t. To me handsome also have to have the look, body (Kevin is too tiny and his face is just normal nothing special). It’s all personal preference.

      I worked with over 10,000 people in my company and I’ve seen fake and real faces. I gain this ability mostly from my work just by exposing to the people everyday and working for many years I’ve learned alot.

  17. There is some truth to every lie. And this is not the first time someone bashes his character.

    1. Not necessarily. Lies are just lies. I think you meant to say “rumours”, not lies right?? Honestly, even if he did have some attitude problems, what is the big deal?? Who is 100% perfect??? Who is flawless??No one…

      1. u say that cuz you are probably his fan. please wake up. gosh. many people are humble and kind with no attitude problems. dont be delusional 🙂

      2. It’s not a big deal to have some attitude problem, but sending regards to other people’s mothers and yelling at other people for having no brains just because of daydreaming are obviously big deals. This is not what a reasonable person will do when it comes to working. He could do that to his friends if he wants to, but doing that to his colleagues make him look unprofessional, and to be frank, a bit childish. We are not studying in a high school where we make fun of other people’s mothers’ names or calling other people stupid to insult them. We are working in a business condition where every worker’s dignity is protected under the law, and those actions shown by Kevin are actually offensive and unprofessional. Imagine saying those words to your colleagues and see how they react.

      3. Actually, I am NOT a fan of Kevin and am against those disillusional fans that are blind and crazy. I do like Kevin but know that he is not perfect but who is?? I just want to be fair and honestly if I were his fan, I would go on and on about how this article is full of lies and all that, but I did not which means I do not deny that he has an attitude problem. At least he being real and not fake like many from the circle and in the world are.

      4. Also to be fair, you really wonder if Kevin truly said that?? I am now realizing to take these reports and articles with a grain of salt.

      5. glaxy: totally agree unlike some people. they don’t understand that…

      6. HeTieShou: I did mean “lies”. That is how the common phrase goes.

    2. @HeTieShou: I was saying I judge him by his facial expression and I can see that he does do aggressive and arrogant but not evil but you said looks can be deceiving and that I don’t know him. Do you know him? I use my heart and eyes to feel and to think. What else can I use? I work with over 10,000 people in my company so I get to see the fake and the real to the point I can make this judgment and of course I can’t see the whole. Just like making friends – you can sometimes tell who you can/can’t talk to when you first met the person.

      Did we say there’s such people out there that’s perfect or flawless? Even myself is not.

  18. Troll face: The crew members are throwing stones on him. They know how to troll. Dead penalty to Kevin Cheng to ruin one of the best novel. He can act the father or grandfather of Mu Yun.

  19. I personally believe Kevin’s attitude is not like that…he may have a closed-off personality and very hard to warm up to other cast members, but I don’t think he’d go as far as to constantly swear at his colleagues and behind the scenes crew.

    He seems like a guy with very high expectations, so being unsatisfied with his work is no surprise..he should take it easy though-maybe it’s his intro-personality+high expectations that makes others misunderstand and eventually allow the media to jab at a weark spot to write crap about.

    No one’s perfect, every artist would have moments and situations when they are about to implode/explode bcos of whatever reason- but it’s how the artists’ tries to handle it that would have the situation turn out to be good or ugly. Can’t guarantee reports did not blow things out of proportion like they always do.

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