Punks at work

Grean Fiction stars return

By Suwitcha Chaiyong
Photos by Varuth Hirunyatheb

Grean Fiction (Punk Fiction), an uplifting movie about teenagers made by renowned director Chookiat Sakveerakul (Madiew), was a big hit last year. Now the characters from that movie are back on the small screen for Grean House The Series. Unlike other teen TV shows like Hormones and Love Sick, Grean House The Series features humorous stories set in the workplace rather than at school.

The series begins where the movie left off. Since Oat, Mon and Mone were too busy looking for the runaway Tee to take their final exams, they decide to take a gap year together. During that year, the friends get jobs working as a production team with a company where they have to deal with a variety of customers and tricky bosses.

Three of the show’s stars — Purim Rattanaruangwattana (Pluem), 17, Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat), 18 and Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram (JJ), 18 — recently flew from Chiang Mai to meet up with Student Weekly at a Bangkok café to tell us all about the making of Grean House The Series.

Student Weekly: Can you tell us about the characters your co-stars play and how they compare with their real personalities?

Fiat: JJ plays Oat, who is very serious about the job. When things don’t go the way he expects, he gets angry at everybody. But in real life JJ is playful and artistic. He has the confidence to be himself.

Pluem: Fiat plays Tee in the series. Tee is sensitive and always concerned about his friends and family, but he’s also creative and mature at work. The real Fiat is nice to his friends. He’s calm and likes solitude.

JJ: Pluem plays Mon, who always makes people laugh. Pluem is similar to Mon. They both like to tease people and make jokes.

Student Weekly: Have you ever felt pressure when people compare Grean House to the popular teen series Hormones and Love Sick?

Pluem: Not at all. We’re not competing with them because our themes are different. Our series is about a group of teens who experience difficulties at work. The script is entertaining, thoughtful and funny because we want the viewers to have fun.

Student Weekly: What was it like working with the director Madiew again?

Fiat: We didn’t have much time to film the series, so Madiew was stressed sometimes because he wanted great results. But since we’d worked together in the movie already, we all understood our characters well and felt comfortable on the set. Madiew also allowed us to add our own ideas and jokes into the scenes. This method created excellent results because we could relate to what our characters were doing.

Student Weekly: Would you guys be rude to a girl that you meet on social media if you found out that she looked different from her profile picture, like Oat in the show?

Pluem: I wouldn’t start a relationship with anybody online. I’d have to know them in person before I added them to my social network or online chat programme.

Fiat: Me too.

JJ: I don’t mind having relationships through social networks. I’d probably do the same thing as Oat because the girl wasn’t being honest.

Student Weekly: Which episode in the series is your favourite?

JJ: I like the episode where our group has to film a reality show in a haunted building. It was spooky because we filmed at an abandoned hospital where a person committed suicide by hanging himself. I was scared because the place was damp and smelly. But we had fun filming there, especially during the scene where we fight one another!

Student Weekly: Who is your favourite guest star in the series?

Pluem: Tao Somchai. He’s really good at acting and his facial expressions are great.

Fiat: Pom Pam from the travel TV show, Toey Tiew Thai. He’s always hilarious, but he’s serious about work. I get along with him well and we’re comfortable working together.

JJ: Dom Hetrakul is such a professional actor. He could remember every detail of the script.

Student Weekly: How does acting in movies or sitcoms compare with acting in Grean House?

JJ: I’m in a sitcom called Love Blood and it’s really tough. I’m not good at telling jokes and getting the timing right, so sometimes the jokes fall flat.

Pluem: I played the lead character in a short film called Rak Jing Ping Gor [True Love, Fake Romance]. I only had short time to learn the script before filming, but it was fine. The director was happy with my acting.

Student Weekly: Do you have special message for our readers?

Fiat: Please check out Grean House The Series. It’s on Modern Nine TV and MCOT HD, or you can also watch it on YouTube. The series will make viewers feel very happy.

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