My Valentine is the first time I’ll act. It’s my first real movie experience. For Final Score, I was just living my normal life while the film crew tailed me for two years.
I didn’t feel uncomfortable having a camera crew around all the time. I just treated them as friends; they just happened to have a video camera in hand.
I’m not really like Kong, the character in My Valentine. Though we have the same humorous outlook, he’s too shy about love—unlike me. [laughs]
I’ve learned to be a good interviewer at Fat Radio. I host a program, Tee Wa Karn Don Tree, with three other DJs, where we interview artists about their lives and work.
I’ve learned from iconic interviewers, like Damrong Puttan, Chomkwan Laopetch, Sanya Kunakorn. But I don’t compare myself to them. I just do the best I can do.
I don’t have a wish list of people I would like to interview. I love to talk to everybody. People with their own views and perspectives that we can learn something from.
It’s completely selfish to ask only what you want to know. Ask the questions that the audiences really want the answers to.
What you see is always the real me. I don’t know whether I could pretend to be somebody else. I only do what I like to do and do it where I can be myself.
For work, I ask myself two questions. First, can I learn something new? I love to learn and gain new experiences. Second, does it benefit audiences? If I could learn from it but the audience gets nothing, there is no point. It’s too selfish.
My father is my idol. He is a real gentleman, a good father, a good husband, a good head of the family. I used to be a bad boy in the past. He used to tell me that, “you don’t have to grow up to be as good as I am, just half of me is enough.” That was so cool and so inspiring.
I am not a dek neaw idol. Pod Moderndog is. I’m just a normal person. Indie and dek neaw are similar, I reckon, people who have their own independent way of life.
My admirers think that I’m a good person. I am not that good and don’t really appreciate being called that. I want them to see me as a normal person who has two sides—good and bad. I’m not 100% perfect.
My position is influential. Where I am now, people believe what you tell them—no matter whether it’s good or bad.
I’m totally OK when people ask to take my photo on the street. I don’t feel like I am losing my privacy, unlike others. For starters, I’m not Ken Theeradej or Bie the Star so I can just live my life regularly, as long as nobody puts a CCTV camera inside my house.
I have gone quite far, thanks to good opportunities. It may seem fast, but if somebody else was given the same opportunities, they might do as well, or better.
The entertainment industry is like a university of life.
Even if I could, I would not change anything I’ve done. What you learn from the past is the best antibody for your future. If your past were perfectly smooth, how could you cope with unexpected events in the future?
I don’t forecast my future, but of course, it will be better than today. And today should always be better than yesterday.
Teenagers are always teenagers no matter what year it is. And they always have problems. Today’s teens can’t be like last decade’s teens. What is important is how you can raise them to be good adults.
In the past, I think parents forced their children to be something, whether they wanted to or not. It’s not like that anymore.
When I was younger, I was so into Buddhism. I was in Mattayom 2, I woke up at five, dragged myself from my home in Ekkamai to Wat Leab, across from my school, Suan Kularb, so that I could follow the monk master during his morning alms collection.
Don’t assume that only monks are representatives of Buddhism. You are also Buddhist, you can be a good representative of the religion by following the Buddha’s wills.
If you don’t believe in the religion and what you’re doing doesn’t harm other people, do it and have a happy life.
Being at an all-boy high school was fun, especially when you bug a girl. It’s more fun and challenging because they are not people you see every day. You need more effort to complete the task!
