REGINE VELASQUEZ is happy with her role in “Poor Senorita” as Rita Villon, the haughty heiress to a big perfume company she inherited from her dad, Ricky Davao. “At least, may pagka-comedy ito at hindi sobrang drama, kasi nahihirapan ako kapag sobrang iyakan dahil, in real life, mas kengkoy naman talaga ako, e,” she says. “Maganda rin yung arc ng character ko. I’m a perfectionist boss at sobrang strict sa employees ko, then, biglang na-diagnose akong may terminal cancer so I gave all my wealth to my aunt, Snooky Serna. Tapos, wrong diagnosis at wala naman pala akong sakit so binabawi ko ang properties ko, pati bahay ko, at ayaw ng ibalik sa’kin ng tita ko. Ang tumulong sa’kin, five street children na siyang magpapabago sa pagkatao at buhay ko.”
She has a bedscene with Mikael Daez in the show. Didn’t she have second thoughts about doing it since her son Nate might complain? “May konting kaba about kissing MIkael kasi knowing my son, he’d say ‘Why are you kissing him?’ But there’s always a way of explaining things to children. E, isasagot ko na lang, ‘Anak, huwag kang ganyan, trabahao ito, nagsasamantala lang ang nanay mo kaya tinotoo ko na kasi batambata si Mikael so ibinongga ko na. Todo na ‘to. Ganun yun. Ha ha ha!”
Did she inform her husband Ogie Alcasid about it? “Hindi na kailangan. I’m not naman 16 years old. And my husband is the most game sa mga ganyan.”
“Poor Senorita” starts airing tonight, Monday,March 28, replacing “Little Nanay” right after “24 Oras” on GMA Telebabad.
