“Two years ago, I was told there’s an audition here and I decided to give it a shot,” she says. “I did a script reading and I was surprised when I was told later that I got the part. It wasn’t coursed through Viva so I had to inform them about, and also ABS-CBN, because I’d be staying in Hollywood for more than a month to shoot the film. Pinayagan naman ako. It was so much fun. I had an enjoyable experience and it’s a different kind of world. Ibang-iba’ng working hours nila. They’re very strict, hindi gaya rito sa atin na inaabot ng magdamag.”
Her leading man is Alexander Dreymon who plays her boyfriend, Jeremiah, and they’re supported by Caleb Hunt, Natalina Maggio, Clifton Powell and Emily Skinner, written and directed by Francis de la Torre. Other Filipino actors in the cast are Suzette Ranillo as Tita Paz and Jonjon Briones (who’s now playing The Engineer in “Miss Saigon” in London) as a priest.
The movie is a horror-action thriller. Anne plays Crystal, a mysterious girl who is the girlfriend of Roman (played by Caleb Hunt). For some reason, she is kidnapped by Alexander, who works for Ramon, and this leads to some complications because Anne is slowly turning into a vampire.
“I’ve never played a vampire before, so I had fun doing ‘Blood Ransom’,” says Anne. “I enjoyed it so much as there’s so much room to play around. I hope to do more films like this and I hope it won’t be my last project in Hollywood.”
Has she gotten herself an agent in the U.S.? “Not yet. I want to see muna what will happen after ‘Blood Ransom’ is shown. I’m really excited to see the finished product. I think every local actress would like to try out there but it’s so hard to leave, especially if you have your own career here.”
She has love scenes with Alexander in the movie. How was it? “Locally, the sexiest love scene I’ve done was in ‘No Other Woman’. Mas grabe yung love scene namin dito. At first, it was very awkward for me. Kasi, dito, we don’t do French kiss, yung labas ang dila. So doon, we kiss but the director keeps saying he wants it to be more passionate. Alexander told me, I think he wants us to French kiss. So ako naman, Uh, okay. And so I did it with him, kasi normal lang yun sa kanila but dito, we don’t do it. So Alexander is the first guy with whom I had French kissing on camera. Sexy talaga yung love scene but the director says it’s very tastefully done and I survived it.”
