Lim Kay Tong to play founding PM Lee Kuan Yew in the movie 1965
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/movies/story/lim-kay-tong-play-founding-pm-lee-kuan-yew-the-movie-1965-20141008
SINGAPORE - Despite an almost unanimous verdict among Singaporeans on social media that he is perfect for the role, veteran actor Lim Kay Tong admits he had to overcome cowardice before agreeing to play Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in the local movie 1965.
At a press conference on Wednesday, he says: "Two things in the 1960s that are stuck indelibly in my mind - the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Lee Kuan Yew's speech on the separation.
Even as a child, you realise the significance of it, you see a different side to the man, a very human side. That press conference really defined him in a different way.
"After reading the script, Lim, 60, thought he could take on the part.