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Jennylyn Mercado acts with the best of them

/ 12:20 AM April 24, 2016

JENNYLYN Mercado

JENNYLYN Mercado

For some seasons now, Jennylyn Mercado has been starring in a number of “budget” rom-com movies that have fared surprisingly well at the box office. It started with “English Only, Please” with Derek Ramsay, which turned out to be a “sleeper” hit.

Her follow-up vehicle, Jun Robles Lana’s “The Prenup” with Sam Milby, was about two strangers who meet on a plane and fall in love in New York.

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Continuing to move up in the film world, Jennylyn was next paired off with Jericho Rosales in “#Walang Forever.”

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In Dan Villegas’ film, Jen was cast as a popular scriptwriter, while Jericho turned out to be grievously ill, but love still found a way, contra mundum.

We made a mental note of Jennylyn’s costarring stint with Jericho as a significant step up in her career, and felt that she was “ready” to act with even bigger male leads.

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So, her new film (opening in May) with John Lloyd Cruz, Cathy Garcia-Molina’s “Just the 3 of Us,” is a portent of even better and bigger things to come for her stellar career.

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After all, not many actresses can “boast” of having costarred with the acclaimed likes of Jericho and John Lloyd, “back to back.”

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Advance word on Jen’s new starrer is good, so we’re upbeat about its prospects on point of popularity and quality.

The proof is in the viewing, of course, but it isn’t likely that the two stars will pass up this opportunity to come up with an exceptionally fun and significant production.

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In “Just the 3 of Us,” Jen accuses John Lloyd of being the father of the child she’s bearing, which he denies to high heavens until—well, we’ll have to watch the movie next month to find out.

Jennylyn stands to gain a lot from her latest costarrer’s expected success, but it should also be a career-boosting move for John Lloyd.

Yes, he’s racked up more than his share of big hits, but this relatively smaller vehicle, which we can describe as a currently trendy “maindie,” is a relatively fresh and promising gambit for him.

It’s the more popular or populist expression of John Lloyd’s ongoing transition to “indie” mode, as represented by the rigorously artistic “Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis.”

That eight-hour-long opus proved a key point, but if his new film turns out to be a solid hit, it would boost Indies and maindies’ popularity, which still has to be decisively established.

So, film buffs who want to help “smaller” movie productions make their mark should go out of their way to patronize it. Its success would encourage producers to bankroll more of the same.

Thinking beyond this film, now that Jennylyn is on an indie and maindie stellar roll, what could she do next?

After costarring with Derek, Sam, Jericho and John Lloyd, she would do well to play her “Papa Piolo” (Pascual) card.

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In the light of her impressive portrayals, Piolo should be excited to work with her—and viewers would delightedly second the notion—and motion!

TAGS: Cathy Garcia-Molina, Derek Ramsay, Jennylyn Mercado, Jericho Rosales, John Lloyd Cruz, Just the 3 of Us, maindie, Sam Milby

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