Rubbers, directed by Han Yew Kwang, is a Singaporean comedy that carried an R21 rating. It was showing in Singapore cinemas in 2015. In it, Oon Shu An plays Kawaii Momoko, a Japanese adult-video performer. At the time she was 28 and best known for the Netflix series Marco Polo.
What kind of film is Rubbers?
The film is a 2014 Singaporean production. Its cast includes Marcus Chin, Julian Hee, Lee Chau Min, Oon Shu An, Catherine Sng, Alaric Tay and Yeo Yann Yann. The R21 rating limits it to adult audiences.
One US trade review called it “raucous, base and unwieldy entertainment.” The same review called the film a timely illustration of Singaporean culture.
Why did the role matter to her career?
Speaking in April 2015, Oon said she wanted her character to feel like a real person rather than a caricature. She said the film’s frank approach could make a nervous subject less intimidating. She also admitted to some doubts about how her family and younger followers of her online beauty show, Tried And Tested, would take it. Her mother’s first reaction was one of concern.
She trusted the project partly because she had already worked with Han and co-star Alaric Tay on the 2010 telemovie Love In A Cab. The role was a change from Marco Polo. There she had played a concubine on a series with mature themes.
Later profiles still list the part among her best-known work. One Singapore magazine profile names it alongside her Marco Polo role and her turn as an attorney in the Channel 5 legal drama Code of Law.
Where did she start, and what has she done since?
Oon trained in acting at Lasalle College of the Arts. Her film debut was Becoming Royston. Theatre has been central to her work. In 2014 she wrote and performed the one-woman play #UnicornMoment, which was nominated for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards.
Checkpoint Theatre lists her as an actor, writer and Associate Artist. It notes a Best Actress nomination for Chinglish (2015). Her other stage work includes This is What Happens to Pretty Girls and Mergers and Accusations, both in 2019.
On screen, Checkpoint Theatre says she represented Singapore in the Best Actress category at the Asian Academy Creative Awards, for HOOQ’s How to Be a Good Girl. Her other feature credits include 4Love and Our Sister Mambo, and film databases also list her in #LookAtMe (2022).
A 2026 listing shows her in the film A Singapore Dementia Story.
What else is she known for?
Besides acting, she has hosted the online show Tried And Tested. AsiaOne has described her as versatile across theatre, television and film. It lists the stage works #UnicornMoment, Chinglish and Lungs, the television series Mata Mata and I’m Madam, and the films Becoming Royston and Rubbers.
In 2016 she released a video made with Joel Tan that explored identity. AsiaOne notes that it went viral.