Jaspers Lai Yit Hann born March 7 1987 is a Malaysianborn Singaporean actor Lai studied in Nanyang Junior College Thereafter Lai went to Hong Kong to be trained in acting hosting singing and songwriting when he was 18 and was in training for 5 years along with Romeo Tan and Andie Chen However the artiste management company shuttered when he was 23 before he could debut He returned to Singapore and enrolled into National University of Singapore studying at the School of Computing In 2014 Lai made his film debut in The Lion Men In the movie he was cast as Sam the leader of a rivalling lion dance troupe He was selected for the role after passing an audition during his final university semester and was also signed with Jack Neos J Team Productions