[Bick] This is 'คำนี้ดี Featuring.' My name is Bick, and welcome to the show. So, I grew up with all the Chinese entertainment influence.
It’s 40 and 50 years ago, you know, it’s like, so you name it, เจ้าพ่อเซี่ยงไฮ้, กระบี่ไร้เทียมทาน,
I probably watched them all. And then came the era of Japanese,
like, Japanese Series, J-Idols, and then the K-dramas and K-Idols.
But you know what? During all those times, the Chinese stars or Chinese series
have never been completely gone out of the picture. They got here first and never left.
But you know what? Actually, it's very, very rare for Thai stars or Thai Idols
to even get a little break in China because China is a really tough market,
so it's really hard to get any break or opportunities in. But not that we’ve never had anybody doing that before.
So today we are very lucky to have a chance to talk to someone who has made it in China.
So, let’s go and say hi to him. [Bick] สวัสดีครับ, Mike Angelo. [Mike] สวัสดีครับ [Mike] Hi, nice to finally meet you, by the way.
Been seeing you around. [Bick] Same here, actually, because we have been following your career
since your Idols days, from when you were very young and just started off.
[Mike] I’m still young. [Bick] You're still young, of course. You're forever young, actually. [Mike] Because what? I’m a vampire.
[Bick] Yes, exactly. So today we're going to get to know a little bit or a lot more about
Mike the Vampire, not just Mike that we’ve known before.
So, wearing black, you got the look. [Mike] Well, I always wear black.
Like, 99.9% of my closet is all black. [Bick] That’s just literally me.
[Bick] Me too. [Mike] You too? [Bick] Because we don’t have to think about what color to wear today, right? We can just grab anything from our closet and then we’re ready to go.
[Mike] That’s what I did this morning. I woke up late, sorry to say this, but yeah, I woke up late. I slept at like 5 in the morning yesterday,
and I woke up and I was like, “What is going on? What is happening? Oh, I had to go do makeup,"
so I just opened my closet, and I could close my eyes and just pick a jacket, and yeah,
that’s what I got. [Bick] It’s very convenient. [Mike] Very convenient, right? [Bick] You've got a very great look.
[Mike] Thank you, you too. [Bick] Thank you. So, we’ve talked before, and I’m glad to know that we are
kind of on the same wavelength somehow. We like it dark, cold, and silent.
[Mike] Silent with the rain sound. Peaceful, isn’t it?
[Bick] Literally a vampire. [Mike] Wait, you’re a vampire too? [Bick] I think so.
Maybe I don’t have the look, but yeah… [Mike] No, it’s not about the look. [Bick] A vampire can be inside.
[Mike] The vampire is from the inside and how you live your life. [Bick] Well, if you have been following his career,
we all know that being Mike and doing what he does is never easy.
So, you always have to prove yourself. You’re always trying to do new things,
reinventing yourself, and going all over the place, in the country, outside of the country.
So let’s go back to the first time that you thought China
might be where you want to go and seek opportunities. When was that? [Mike] I think it was in 2000-something,
I don’t really remember, about 10 years ago.
I decided to go to China. It was basically just a new chapter in my life.
I read a book and finished chapter one, then I turned to chapter two,
and so I decided to go to China because I don’t like staying in one place,
as in career-wise. At some point in your life when you keep doing the same thing over and over again,