Idaman, a TV producer's dream soap opera

The 1990s soap Idaman starred (from left) Sean Ghazi, Deanna Yusoff and Datuk Jalaluddin Hassan. Photo: The Star/Raymond Ooi

In a scene from local soap opera Idaman, fashion designer Khalid, played by Sean Ghazi, was having a meeting with a business associate in his office and was asking his secretary to bring in two cups of cappuccino – wait a minute – with an imaginary intercom?

“I was improvising my script. I was hoping the camera wouldn’t show that. There was nothing there, I was just pressing the table. And they showed it in the final cut!” recalls Sean, 46, with a laugh.