She’s happy she can do soaps with GMA-7 and movies with ABS-CBN. “Last year, I played Jake Cuenca’s mom in ‘In the Name of Love’ sa Star Cinema, also Cristine Reyes’ mom in ‘No Other Woman’. Now, I play Kim Chiu’s mom naman in ‘The Healing’, which stars Gov. Vilma Santos.”
She never thought her lines about Quiapo, Lucy Torres and Gretchen Barretto in “No Other Woman” will be such a hit. “When we were shooting it, parang wala lang. Sabi ko, baklang-bakla naman ang lines ko. But when they showed it na, super grabe ang feedback and ginagaya ako ng mga tao. Even Lucy Torres herself texted me and said people were applauding my scenes when she saw it sa moviehouse.”
So how is it working with Gov. Vi? “I was so tense bago kami nagkaharap sa shooting. We worked na together about 30 years ago in ‘Ayaw Kong Maging Kerida’ with Romeo Vasquez, shot in the U.S. Ngayon lang kami uli nagkaharap and I wasn’t sure if she knew me. Pero napakabait niya. Suportahan kami sa aming eksena.”
How come she remains single? “I don’t know. Sabi nila, pihikan siguro ako. E, dapat lang naman, di ba? You’re choosing a partner for life, so dapat lang, ka-vibes ko, have a deep faith in God like me, at dapat, mas mayaman naman sa akin.”
