Piolo Pascual in “Pamilya Sagrado” —PHOTO COURTESY OF DREAMSCAPE ENTERTAINMENT
Piolo Pascual doesn’t merely look good, youthful and refreshed lately. “I really feel good,” the 47-year-old actor advised us when he, alongside along with his twentysomething costars Kyle Echarri and Grae Fernandez, met the press to announce “Pamilya Sagrado’s” time slot adjustment final Sunday. “My endorsements require me to look presentable and match, so it comes with the territory. I’m in fine condition [because] I maintain myself.”
Past all that bodily pluperfection, nevertheless, is a string of fine causes for the nation’s No. 1 heartthrob to really feel engaged and “reenergized.” He attributes this to the dangers he started taking on the top of the pandemic.
Requested what clicked for him through the lengthy and stultifying lockdowns and drove him to choose riskier roles (as a serial killer in “Mallari” and as Padre Pedro Pelaez in “GomBurZa”) and pursue brand-new inventive endeavors (like making his foray into musical theater through “Ibarra”), Piolo stated, “I had a wake-up name. I keep in mind eager to give up earlier than turning 40. I needed to give up whereas I used to be nonetheless on high.
“However I used to be humbled by the Lord, who made me notice there have been nonetheless numerous tasks I may do. Like, ‘How dare you resist or refuse work that comes your manner? You is usually a conduit or a vessel for tasks that may assist folks or illuminate their minds.
“That epiphany led to renewed pleasure about my profession. In the course of the pandemic, I spotted how boring it was to remain idle (laughs)! Ayokong walang ginagawa (I didn’t like being unproductive). When issues started to ease up, hindi na talaga ako tumigil (I by no means stopped working). I completed 4 motion pictures through the pandemic. Thereafter, I saved doing stuff left and proper—and that hasn’t stopped since. I simply attempt to convey my A sport each time so I gained’t remorse doing them or really feel like I used to be compromising [on the quality].”
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To larger heights
If we go by the appearing awards he has gained to date for his portrayals in “GomBurZa,” “Mallari” and even “Ibarra,” it definitely doesn’t seem like Piolo has been making some ill-advised judgment calls.
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“I’m simply kilig [about all of this],” he quipped, beaming. “You already know, I used to be requested by direk Mike Tuviera (director of ‘The Kingdom,’ his upcoming Metro Manilla Movie Pageant entry with Vic Sotto) if I settle for tasks with awards in thoughts.
“I stated, ‘I by no means do one thing to get an award, as a result of successful one is only a reward [for a job well done]. It isn’t one thing you ask for. So after I get one, I’m so grateful for it. It fuels me to maintain doing higher.
“That’s why I used to be emotional after I gained an Aliw award [for best actor] for ‘Ibarra.’ It acquired to a degree the place, whereas I used to be holding my trophy, I couldn’t imagine the place that function has led me. It made me really feel grateful for the alternatives which have been coming my manner.
“You already know that the dangers and challenges you tackle are pushing you to larger heights. You don’t anticipate to get something from them. It’s actually only a matter of going for it and giving each character your 100%.”
His function in ABS-CBN’s top-rated collection “Pamilya Sagrado”—as Rafael Sagrado, who will cease at nothing to guard the household title—isn’t any exception.
Piolo is having fun with his unconventional, cache-boosting function within the Dreamscape Leisure manufacturing a lot that he stated he can’t wait to do one other teleserye. Want we are saying that uncovering Moises Malonzo’s (Kyle) true id may elevate the stakes even greater for Rafael, Justin (Grae) and the opposite characters within the collection?
“I’m excited to do one other collection, yeah,” Piolo said. “I don’t assume I’ll ever cease appearing. After ‘Flower of Evil’ and ‘Pamilya Sagrado,’ I’ve already requested Dreamscape and ABS-CBN what they’ve in retailer for me after this (laughs).
“That’s the place my renewed pleasure or enthusiasm for distinctive content material is coming from … giving life to characters which have turn into more and more extra various. As a result of these days, now we have extra decisions for roles and larger entry to completely different platforms.
“I’ll by no means cease creating content material or producing stuff that will preserve me productive. I would like new ideas and concepts that we will champion … one thing that our audiences can really be pleased with.”
In the course of the interview, we reminded Piolo that “Actual Life Fiction,” his bleak existentialist movie directed by Paul Soriano (and costarring Jasmine Curtis-Smith) that started enjoying in cinemas final week, additionally tapped into pertinent psychological well being points and the way man’s sense of uncertainty and deepest fears may play tips on him.
Whereas it will not be each viewer’s cup of tea, it’s nonetheless a spot-on depiction of what folks have been all feeling on the top of the pandemic in 2020.
“That movie was haunting to a sure extent, as a result of it delves into the psyche of an individual—a preferred actor-turned-director named Paco—who’s similar to me. He’s coping with his interior demons. It was like me mirroring myself, so it felt very near dwelling. And I needed to actually shake the character off after engaged on it and detach myself from him instantly.
‘Disturbing ideas’
“You know the way issues are when a job haunts you… it leaves a mark and stays behind your head. Take ‘Mallari,’ I get scared after I watch it now, in order that isn’t one thing I need to do once more any time quickly.”
Was Piolo additionally feeling Paco’s points through the lockdown?
“Sure, I felt that particularly through the pandemic … when there was a lot uncertainty swirling throughout us. I suppose that was why I didn’t need to keep dwelling and simply work and never get caught doing nothing … as a result of I didn’t need to should cope with these [disturbing] ideas.”
Since characters like Rafael in “Pamilya Sagrado” could be perceived as hero-antiheroes, Piolo was requested how he offers with actual “contravidas” within the loopy world that he inhabits.
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He answered, “I battle with that as properly, as a result of I additionally are likely to cope with my very own perspective or character after I really feel na parang sumasama ang ugali ko or the best way I believe, speak or cope with different folks. Ako mismo ang kontrabida sa sarili ko (I’m my very own contravida). So, earlier than I choose folks, I place myself of their footwear … as a result of that’s simply one other manner for me to know myself higher.”
