YEN SANTOS is part of PBB Teens 2010. Just like its winner, James Reid, it’s only now that she’s 21 that she’s given her big break as the other leading lady in “Pure Love”. Yen actually has the more demanding role than Alex Gonzaga in the story because she plays two roles no less. First, she plays Ysabel, a poor girl despondent from the death of her boyfriend so she tries to kill herself. Then the soul Alex possesses and she has to copy the bubbly mannerisms of Alex, which is the exact opposite of the Ysabel character. As one writer quips, “Kung magaling talaga ang acting ni Yen, baka masapawan niya si Alex.”
“I can say na biggest break ko talaga ang ‘Pure Love’,” says Yen. “Kailangan kong makopya si Alex kasi sumasapi siya sa akin. So kailangan kong makuha kung paano siya gumalaw. Magalaw siya pag nagsasalita siya. Parang kiti-kiti. Babaeng bakla siyang talaga. May isang eksena nga na nahihirapan ako. Sabi niya, sa akin, ‘I-OA mo na lang kasi OA naman ako, e!’ Noong una ko siyang ma-meet, na-intimidate ako, but it turned ang bait niya at masayang kasama.”
