“Kakaiba yung role ko kasi very colorful siya,” she says. Dati akong kontesera sa beauty pageants na naging backup dancer, tapos naanakan ako ni Roi. Nae-enjoy ko yung character kasi may pagkalukring pero palaban kahit alam niyang kabit lang siya at hindi tunay na asawa noong family patriarch. In real life, naranasan ko rin namang maging one of the wives ng isang lalaki when I married Meng Fei, the Chinese actor na gumawa ng movies dito noon sa Manila. Pumayag ako kasi I thought he will be my forever. Na-meet ko rin yung ibang wives niya sa Hongkong. Pero hindi rin kami naging forever at bumalik ako rito.”
Beth O turned 64 last July and she says she doesn’t mind getting old. “Anyway, marami namang nagsasabing I don’t look my age so, salamat sa Diyos. Hindi naman problema sa’kin ang pagtanda kasi heto, very active pa rin ako as an actress, maging sa TV man o sa pelikula. Heto nga, reunited kami uli ni Gloria Diaz na una kong nakasama in ‘Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa’ in 1974, and up to now, I’m happy na nasa eksena pa rin kami. Last year nga, we also did a movie together, ‘Si Chedeng at Si Apple’, which was even shown in film festivals abroad.”
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