Mariel de Leon (left) and Coco Martin
It’s great that beauty queen Mariel de Leon is following in the footsteps of her parents (Christopher de Leon and Sandy Andalong) and shooting her first film. But does it have to be the new “Ang Panday” project, with Coco Martin for her leading man?
What seems to be the problem? Well, Coco isn’t as tall as the statuesque beauty queen, so some of their scenes together could come off as “mismatched,” visually ungainly and “off.”
Fact is, it’s Coco who should’ve learned his lesson in this regard, after his injudicious pairing with the noticeably taller Ruffa Gutierrez in “Maybe This Time” some years ago.
Expectedly, their scenes together looked inadvertently awkward and implausible.
Yes, some tall girls end up with shorter guys in real life, but the visual mismatch should generally be avoided in TV-film productions. Why unnecessarily complicate things for everyone involved?
Since Coco is the “Ang Panday” film project’s director as well, he could easily make the change, and Mariel can star in another film that will be less problematic and thus assure success for her initial stellar bid.
TV anchors as fashion victims
Our recent item on a TV newscaster ending up looking funny in her excessively “experimental” outfit has prompted some readers to share cautionary observations of their own.
In general, they remind TV talents that viewers are interested in the news, not in them, and urge them to dress down instead of up!
Don’t look like you’re trying to be too trendy and young, because the effort will show. And, avoid passing fads like peek-a-boo holes and “daringly” uneven necklines and hemlines, because only tall and lissome fashion models can get away with them.
As for male newscasters, they don’t have to all be dressed to the nines in spiffy, drop-dead, Mafioso-suit ensembles, complete with florid ties, vests, lapel emblems and sundry other paraphernalia.
If credibility and authority are what they’re after, they’d be better served if they bothered to really bone up on the news and newsmakers of the day.
Yes, that takes more time than just climbing into a suit, but it’ll serve them better for the long term.
Think out of the box
Some established stars complain that their heretofore “diehard” fans have dropped them in favor of younger comers and wonder why they’ve become so dismayingly disloyal.
If they want to revive their careers, they should blame themselves, not their former followers!
Fading and flickering stars are guilty of taking their fans for granted and not growing as performers.
Of course their followers will get bored—so, fading stars have to make up for their blithe neglect and laziness posthaste, by coming up with fresh moves to surprise their fans into loving them again.
A good way for them to do this is to think out of the box, and choose to play unconventional roles in audacious productions—like the current “sleeper hit” film, “Kita Kita,” which has the lovely Alessandra de Rossi falling in love with the heretofore “unremarkable” Empoy Marquez. Way to go!