A friend of mine send me a 9-paged article from a Thai magazine ‘Khwan Ruean’. The article was an interview from Tony Jaa. I think that the time of this interview might be around 2003 to 2004 because Tony mostly talked about his biography and his life as a stuntman before Ong-Bak (as we already know), the success of Ong-Bak in Thailand, and he talked about Tom-Yum-Goong as a project he had prepared to do then. But there is some more information that I’d like to share here.

Tony said something about his excitement for the first film ‘Singh Siam’ (1992) (means ‘Siamese Lion’) with his master Panna Rittikrai. And he mentioned that his next film is Mum Jokmok’s action movie ‘Kuan Ouy’ (1993) that he appeared more recognizably than he did in Singh Siam. Therefore, this would be inferred that the amount of Tony’s early films are more than we know. Additionally, this means that Ong-Bak 1 is not the first film that Tony and Mum starred together, and The Bodyguard 1 is also not the first Mum Jokmok’s film that Tony joins as a cameo.

What does ‘Kuan Ouy’ mean? In Thai, it is written as กวนโอ๊ย. It is a Thai slang to describe anyone who is facetious or provoking to another person. I think that the English slangs that mostly suit the Thai ‘Kuan Ouy’ are ‘be asking for it’ and ‘be looking for a good kick’.

Moreover, in the article from Khwan Ruean magazine, there are also some Tony’s photos that are rare to find elsewhere. There is an image depicting when Tony was about 5 years old, as a boy with bulging cheeks standing with his brother and 2 sisters. There is an image depicted only his face, typically using for one's primary student ID card. And there is a picture of Tony in a motorcyler suit when he was a stuntman in the movie “CCJ-Saeb Fah Laeb (1998)”. I have no picture scanner to transfer those pictures and post them here, but I’ll do it later.