Alden Richards, Barbie Forteza disclose difficulty in letting go of each other
Alden Richards, Barbie Forteza disclose difficulty in letting go of each other
Filipino actor Alden Richards and his colleague Barbie Forteza have confessed how hard it was for them to let go of their characters after the cameras stopped rolling while filming for their upcoming historical fiction drama.
Dubbed: “Pulang Araw,” the series saw Alden and
Barbie played the siblings role, Eduardo and Adelina who lived during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
Speaking in an interview, Alden disclosed that though actors go through a process before filming a scene, he found himself finding it hard to separate his real-life from make-believe life.
“For someone’s reason, when it comes to the torture scenes that Mikoy (Morales) and I did, and Sanya’s part, which is on the comfort women’s side, we were tortured in the concentration camp at Fort Santiago,” he said.
Alden said this experience, even though emotionally and physically draining for actors like them, is important for him. As he has been saying in interviews, “Pulang Araw” is a legacy project.
“I consider this project as one of my most important projects of this year because of the legacy that we will be telling, the untold legacy of the Filipinos during World War II.
Barbie sharing a similar experience said there was intensity of emotions and could not break loose from it.
The heartache is so bad… I’m really sick. The height of the emotion, the intensity of it, then suddenly you’re out of control,” she said.
With the series set in a tumultuous time in the Philippines and a war ravaging the whole archipelago, torture scenes and deaths, as written in history books, are expected to be seen in the upcoming drama.
Alden’s character, Eduardo, becomes a guerilla who fights against the invading forces. Barbie’s Adelina, meanwhile, is a Bodabil artist who performs on stage to entertain the public amid a raging war.
Bodabil is the indigenised version of the French performing art Vaudeville, which grew in popularity in France during the latter part of the 19th century.
Bodabil actors engage the public with magic acts, comedy and drama all while dancing and singing.
These are the contexts that made actors Alden and Barbie so immersed in their characters, aided by real locations and realistic set designs.
Source: www.spotonnews.net
