Mediacorp actor Richie Koh’s Golden Horse best leading actor nomination for A Good Child would not have been possible without Christopher Lim, who is better known as Sammi Zhen.

The 45-year-old drag queen's life was the inspiration for the local movie, which is now in theatres.

But it's not just Koh that people are recognising from the movie. In fact, Zhen, who towers at 1.8m tall (without high heels, he insists), tells 8days.sg he is also getting recognised in public these days since he was featured in the media for his connection with the movie.

The stallholders at a hawker centre near his place are buzzing about a movie about his life hitting theatres.

During our interview at Orchard Rendezvous Hotel’s Heritage Room, Zhen tells us one of the stallholders, armed with a newspaper cl

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