Robin Padilla. Image: Screen grab from YouTube/Pinoy News Blogger
(Updated 10 p.m., March 1)
Actor Robin Padilla unleashed his action-star power when he defended a Filipina fan in Hong Kong against a white guy who wanted to take a picture with him first.
Caught on video and uploaded on YouTube by Pinoy New Blogger, Padilla did not like the intrusion of the foreigner and his reflex was to push the guy away.
In the 29-second video, a group of Filipinas was seen swarming Padilla and feeling giddily overwhelmed at meeting the action star.
In the middle of the clip, Padilla held a fan’s phone and he himself took the photo of them together.
Another girl then approached him and gave her phone when suddenly the white guy barged in and tried to shoo away the woman so he can have a photo with the actor first.
Immediately, Padilla unleashed a lethal mix of gallant gentleman and countrymen-loving citizen – thus his reflex of pushing the foreigner away and getting him in his place.
He was heard saying: “Don’t do that to my countrymen, okay? Don’t do that!”
As the white guy tried to explain, Padilla cut him and said: “No, no, no, don’t push her!”
The 48-year-old actor has always had a reputation of being extremely gentlemanly with a lady, the reason many say he’s captured the hearts of so many women.
Apart from his gentle nature with women, he’s also a self-confessed revolutionary and has been a solid supporter of the administration. /alex t. magno