We’ve grown to know Mediacorp professional Tyler Ten as a brooding high drink of water onscreen. Not that anyone is complaining, given how good he looks playing such characters in dramas In Safe Hands ( 2021 ) and When Duty Calls 2 ( 2022 ).
This period the 28- year- older got to attempt something entirely different.
In fresh play Like On A Shoestring, a partnership between Mediacorp and Taiwan’s TVBS, Tyler plays Chen Shi, who, as his name – it sounds like’ fair’ in Mandarin – suggests, is an innocent and naive office boy.
When 8days got on a visit with Tyler, he gladly told us how this position has “unleashed the graphic” in him.  ,
He claimed that initially it was challenging for him to get into personality, but that he overcame it because of how comfortable and enjoyable it was on set.
Tyler, who was a winner in 2019’s Star Search, even got advice from the producer.
” When I first started filming, I did a few moments, and the director advised me to leave and make room for more so that I could appear better on camera. He applauded me for adding more amusing gimmicks of his own, he said.
Tyler hopes that this will be his first international collaboration and that it will open the door for him to enter the foreign market.
Because we do n’t often do that here, he said,” I hope Taiwan viewers can see that Singapore actors can do comedy as well.” I hope I have more opportunities to appear in Japanese plays in the future because it was a unique opportunity for us to work with a Chinese production.
For two and a half weeks last month, Love On A Shoestring was shot completely in Taipei. Tyler claimed that when they first arrived in Taiwan, he and Cheryl Chou and Jernelle Oh, the other two Taiwanese actors, were essentially left to” live on their own in the wild” because they were unfamiliar with the situation.
However, the stars, including Chinese celebrities Lin He Xuan and Yao Yao, were all very welcoming to us. They may ask if we needed everything, and may encourage us to have cuisine with them after filming”, he chirped.
With Love On A Shoestring and his cast in next week’s hit Emerald Hill, the subsidiary of 2008’s The Little Nyonya, there’s no question Tyler is well on his approach on becoming part of Mediacorp’s new group of leading people.  ,
We enquired if he views himself as a rising sun. He laughed and said:” But I have n’t won ( Most Popular ) Rising Star award ( at the Star Awards ), so no, I do n’t consider myself one”.
” But I’m glad that people are giving me options because I put in a lot of effort. There are people who have even backed me since the end, and I want to show them that they are right, he said.  ,
What distinguishes Tyler from his fellow Star Searchers, especially Herman Keh and Zhai Siming?
” They both have very fresh- looking eyes. He continued, noting that he does n’t actually audition for the same roles as Siming and Herman at first because he believes that I look more mature when I take on more mature roles.