Bela Padilla Now The Queen Of Movies For The Brokenhearted, Reunites With JC Santos In 'The Day After Valentine's'

BELA PADILLA is no doubt the queen of movies made for the brokenhearted. In film after film, she stars in stories where the main lovers figure in failed relationships and she ends up nursing a brokenheart, as in “Camp Sawi”, “100 Tulad Para Kay Stella”, “Meet Me in St. Gallen”. In all these movies, the story concludes with her being loveless. “We’re just being realistic,” she says. “In real life naman, marami talagang nasasawi, di ba?”

She can cite her own self since, in real life, she remains loveless after she broke up with producer BF Neil Arce, who has since hooked up with Angel Locsin. “Okay lang naman yun for me kasi I’m so totally focused sa trabaho ko sa ngayon,” she stresses. “Ang career ko, yun ang asawa ko. I tried naman magbigay ng chance sa iba after my last one, but it really didn’t work out. Okay na rin, kasi wala talaga sa scheme of things ko at this moment ang makipagrelasyon uli kahit kanino.”

How is it being reunited with JC Santos in “The Day After Valentine’s”? “It’s great. Kasi when we were first paired in ‘100 Tula’, we didn’t really know each other that well. But now, mas kilala na naman ang isa’t isa so we’re really very comfortable with one another. Mas madali na ang lahat kasi tantiyado na namin ang bawat isa. May scene kami rito showing us making out and we did it without any hesitation kasi we trust each other so much and I know I’m very safe with him. Abangan nyo si JC rito kasi talagang napakagaling niya bilang isang brokenhearted guy, with me as his shoulder to cry on na nagpapayo sa kanya.”

So hasn’t JC sent her feelers or anything? “Naku, we’re quite close now, but friend zone lang kami talaga. Magkatropa, ganun lang ang turingan namin. Pero kapag nagka-girlfriend uli siya, kailangang dumaan muna sa’kin for my approval. Wow!”

In “The Day After Valentine’s”, she plays Lani, a smart woman who seems to have all of life’s answers until she meets JC as Kai, who’s always depressed after being dumped by his girlfriend. Will Lani succeed in helping Kai to have hope and move on with his life? When she guested in Vice Ganda’s show recently, she was bashed because of her insider jokes with Kim Chiu. How did she feel about it?

“I was really so surprised sa dami ng hate comments that I got kasi hindi naman ako talaga yung nag-joke about Gerald Anderson kundi si Vice. Pero iniintindi ko na lang kasi fans yan, e. Nasasaktan sila para sa idol nila. It’s good kami mismo ni Kim, we understand each other perfectly. We know na biro lang lahat. Siya rin naman, ang dami niyang ibinuko sa’kin. Tinawanan na lang namin. After the show, kumain pa nga kami sa labas.”