Singapore — The cast and crew of the local film Late Night Ride may be asking for some real-life spooky experiences when they started filming a ghost movie at night in a quiet park during the lunar seventh month.
Actress Jayley Woo recalled something strange on the set. The 29-year-old shared during a virtual interview to promote the film that there was a scene she filmed with actresses Tasha Low and Yap Hui Xin at Bedok Reservoir Park at around 9 pm.
The three friends were cycling through a supposedly haunted area in the scene, and Woo’s character Nat deliberately creates a lot of noise to draw out the ghosts.
Woo recalled to local media: “Before the director shouted ‘Action’, we saw a person riding his bicycle towards us and he fell even though no one knocked into him. I side-eyed Tasha and Huixin and we kept mum about it because it’s not good to talk about such things during the seventh month.”
Woo hinted that something supernatural had caused the cyclist to fall over. He looked like a boy in his teens. He looked a bit bewildered as the crew went to help him up.
Directed by Koh Chong Wu, Late Night Ride features three interconnected stories. The first one sees a group of social media influencers, led by Nat (Jayley Woo) who chose to explore a haunted road and nearby cycling park in an attempt to gain more viewers for their channel. Nat ends up being haunted when she purposely breaks some taboo in the hopes of capturing paranormal activities.
The second story sees Jie (Andie Chen) losing his wife (played by Constance Lau) to a car accident, and their son Josh (Estovan Reizo Cheah) has not spoken since. Both father and son end up on a late-night bus ride where all dark secrets will be unveiled.
The third story is about Min (Lina Ng), a private hire driver who works day and night to earn enough for her father’s medical bills. Sinister happenings occur when she is on the road, and she needs to figure out why, reported Asia One.
When asked, Woo admitted she was worried she would indeed call out spirits during filming. “I really believe in them and that they are always around us, whether or not we see them. I can sense [them] a bit but I cannot see them.”
In another interview, she said she once felt her late boyfriend Aloysius Pang’s ‘presence’ at home.
The actress added: “I don’t believe whatever I called out would come to me because I know I’m very protected in the spiritual sense. We have an altar at home so we are protected by god. I know that if anything happens, I wouldn’t be in a life-endangering situation.”
Woo was terrified over something else, despite not feeling spooked by the supernatural while filming. Without giving spoilers, Woo has some terrifying scenes, and she spent four hours in the make-up chair to look the part.
“I fell asleep during the process and I woke up in fright [when I saw myself]. I’m not lying,” she said.
She showed her mum the time-lapse video of the make-up process and of herself in the gory scene, and Mrs Woo “reacted strongly” to it, Woo added.
If you’re curious about what happened to Nat, Jie and Min, catch Late Night Ride in cinemas from Oct 28! /TISG