Her older sister Sinitta (aka Noon) gets more face recognition outside Thailand because of her lead role in Last Life in the Universe, but at home in Bangkok, 24-year-old Laila "Ploy" Boonyasak is the girl of the moment. Though she's not a new face, in the past couple of years she shot from mere popularity to A-listdom thanks in part to some great photo shoots that show her transformation from pretty starlet to statuesque beauty. This photo-set, which channels the Sino-decadent look of Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's recent movies In the Mood for Love and 2046, shows her at her best. If Wong Kar-wai, or at least his cinematographer Christopher Doyle, could come to Thailand and shoot us some reels of Ploy, I'd really appreciate it. (Actually Doyle shot Last Life in the Universe and she did appear in that, in a school uniform even, but she was killed off early to make way for her sister.)
Here's a photo set where the emphasis seems to be on putting a lot of gel in her hair. In this one she's goofing around at the beach after a long day mending fishing nets.
And for those of you who prefer your women horizontal, she does that too (full gallery here):
As with most famous Thai girls, there's a good collection of her photos at the all-knowing, all-seeing Thai girl-blog Asian Sweetheart.
2 comments:
Nice finds of Ploy. Did you happen to see her on TV last Friday night? She was on that new show called Chris Delivery with Chris Wright who has fun teaching English to Thais. Ploy looked pretty good, although she definitely looks farang in the hips - not as slender as 100% Thai models.
Missed her, sadly. I should watch more TV. Just checked out the show online (www.chrisdelivery.com) but I think it's an earlier episode... I love the 90% college-girl audience, in their uniforms. They should turn the camera on them more often.
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