#benjamin tsang

Actually, we can give it a try. Try what? Try to get closer.

Post 10 gifs of your personal top 10 QL performances you've seen, the one's that drilled into your heart and took over your brain. This is low pressure. Add words if you want, but the gifs are the only requirement. Then tag 5 friends to hand out their tumblr awards.

Mix Sahaphap in A Tale of Thousand Stars. Lives were changed. The complexity in this performance! I didn't write a whole essay inspired by it for nothing.

Great Sapol in Memoir of Rati. The essence of royalty but still so lived-in! And have any eyes ever been filled with more devotion???

Fourth Nattawat in My School President. MLC might be the more awards-baity dramatic showcase, but the kind of pure unadulterated star-power on display in MSP is rare.

Tanaka Kei in the Ossan's Love series. Just a tour de force of slapstick comedy. This show does not work without him.

Cheating, but Neo and Mark Pakin in Only Friends. Two regular acting standouts at their absolute best, tasked with a dramatic style outside their usual comedic wheelhouse, and even more special for the firework chemistry with one another in their once-and-done pairing.

Nishijima Hidetoshi in What Did You Eat Yesterday? So much beautiful restraint and subtelty. Imma cry if I think about it too long.

Andy Wu in My Tooth Your Love. Perhaps I'm biased because my best friend is a bartender with acute childhood trauma who was afraid to go to the dentist until her 30s, but that also gave me every reason to see through this performance. Instead, it hit every note (with a little dramatic flare, of course) without ever retreating into the maudlin notes others would be tempted to fester in with this character.

Singto Prachaya in Shadow. Nothing has better allowed Singto to show off the extent of his dramatic chops. Man looks classically trained here, reciting Hamlet and everything.

Benjamin Tsang in The On1y One. Talk about searing through the screen! My favorite tsundere performance of all time. The resentment is so cold it burns, and the whole performance is etched by his eyes with a sense of the profound intelligence the character possesses, a vast interiority,

Pchy Witwisit in Love of Siam. I'd make the argument you don't get Thai BL without Pchy's performance, especially the Thai BL with the kinds of mesmerizing and overtly queer performances delivered by the likes of PP Kritt and Fluke Nattanon, both of whom I considered putting on this list, too. Pchy delivered that unique balance of clockability, confidence, and tenderness first.

There’s video of him getting to go up on stage to meet them and get a 1:1 picture, his poor handlers had to go up with him and awkwardly got high fives from the actors as well lol. I’m sure Ben and Lui weren’t expecting a bunch of older Thai men/security guards to follow someone on stage to meet them but they were professional the whole time. And Marc was so nervous, he was fangirling so hard, all giggly and cute. I love that apparently he was watching The On1y One along with everyone else and losing his mind just as much as we were lol, finding out that actors you like are also fangirls is always an adorable thing.

Benjamin Tsang as Jiang Tian & Liu Dong Qin as Sheng Wang