Lights, camera, action ... and a toilet for the crew
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Taiwan singer and actress Rainie Yang stars in “The Tag Along 2,” a sequel to the 2015 hit loosely based on an urban legend about a little girl who appears in the footage of a family's hiking trip.
The only problem was, she wasn’t part of the family and no one seemed to recall seeing a girl on the mountain that day.
The actual footage of the "little girl in red" was broadcast on Taiwan television in the 1990s. Some believed she was roaming the mountains looking for her next victim.
“The little girl in red was photographed really clearly,” Yang said. “People have been talking about it for the last 20 years. It happened when I was very little but I still remember it well.”
In the sequel, Yang plays a social worker whose daughter goes missing in the mountains. She joins the search and rescue team and, while looking for her lost daughter, is haunted by the little girl in red.
“From there she discovered the obsession of the little girl in red,” Yang said. “Everyone has their obsession, whether you’re human or a ghost and when you have an obsession, you can’t let it go. That’s why you keep hanging around, and can’t get over it. So because she stumbled across all this, the story began.”
It is customary in Asia to hold a blessing ceremony before filming commences for horror movies to keep the cast and crew from harm’s way. Yang said that the sequel included a blessing ceremony before the shooting of every scene.
She found out later that quite a few “coincidences” happened while filming the first movie — which prompted director Cheng Wei-hao to take extra precautions for the second.
“When they were shooting the first film, a lot of the men will relieve themselves wherever it's convenient,” Yang said. “Sometimes they're not being thoughtful about it, and no joke, the next day, they will get a fever. They will get sick the next day.
“So they feel like they had to believe ... you can’t go to toilet wherever you want. They realized that they needed to pay attention to that. So, to avoid people getting sick during the filming of the sequel, and because it’s very inconvenient to find a toilet (on location), and also they didn’t want the crew to get sick to delay filming, that's why at every set, there is a toilet just for our cast and crew.”
“The Tag-Along 2” opens in Taiwan on August 25.
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