Jessica Sanchez is Frida Romero in “Glee”
By Elton Lugay
Scoot over, Sunshine Corazon. Frida Romero is the new “frenemy” in “Glee” as Jessica Sanchez steps into the TV series as the lead singer for a rival glee club.
Scoot over, Sunshine Corazon. Frida Romero is the new “frenemy” in “Glee” as Jessica Sanchez steps into the TV series as the lead singer for a rival glee club.
Remember Jaime Blanch, the Filipino stage actor who appeared in the movie “Dolzura Cortez” with Vilma Santos years ago? He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, the city that was effectively shut down as a manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect no. 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, came under way.
Zaijian Jaranilla may be hanging on to his career as a juvenile actor despite the imminent threat of “galloping adolescence,” but other young actors were more realistically made to “graduate” from a kiddie TV show last month.
Some actors were shooting the breeze last week, and opinions clashed and sizzled as they compared notes on their directorial mentors—and tormentors—and what they had learned from them.
Natalie Portman shared this short but sweet observation on TV recently: “An actor’s job is empathy.” Actors and would-be actors would do well to mull that succinct statement over, and evaluate themselves or how well they vivify it in their own work.
Sam Milby admits that he never had to audition for roles after getting the boot in “Pinoy Big Brother” seven years ago. Films, TV shows, albums—they were all pretty much handed to him on a silver platter. Thus, after three and a half months of hopping from one TV network to another in New York [...]
Actress Mercedes Cabral, who attended the recently concluded 2012 Venice International Film Festival as a cast member of the Brillante Mendoza film “Thy Womb,” reported that a member of the audience had walked out of the movie’s special screening.
QUITE a number of the original Pinoy talents who first figured prominently in the “Miss Saigon” musical in London have come home to share what they’ve learned from performing internationally.
EVEN before Dingdong Dantes became the bankable TV-film lead player he is today, we’d heard good things about him from his mentor in film at the Ateneo, Marilou Diaz-Abaya. She said she was impressed with her handsome, young student, because even after an all-night taping session, he would attend her class without taking time off to sleep, and was clearly bent on doing well as a young filmmaker.
She dices and dances, stews and stomps, to conquer. Unknown to many, actress Liza Diño is a professional flamenco dancer and now works as line cook for famous chef Wolfgang Puck’s resto, Spago, in Beverly Hills. She’s assigned to the Garde Manger line, whipping up “the first course: from cold and hot appetizers, to soups and salads.”
“I’ve passed the stage of bitterness – I’ve moved on,” said singer-actress Sarah Geromino when asked about her short but controversial romance with actor-dancer Rayver Cruz early this year.
Some actors act with their chin, while others use their neck. They focus their dramatic intensity on those body parts, the way Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster do. They either shout or growl their lines. Another kind of actor I dislike is the shouter, like William Holden. Heston had both bad habits—he is either stiff [...]
