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INTERVIEW: JENINA ALLI
PHOTOGRAPHY: RENE MEJIA

Your role seems to have a comic streak in it. Would it be categorized as what they call in parlor parlance, “babaeng bakla”?
Not really, more on trying hard lang na nagpapakamarunong pero hindi naman talaga marunong. The character I play, ayaw din niya talaga nung mga pinaggagagawa niya. Napipilitan lang kasi kailangang maiahon ang mahirap niyang pamilya. So she just pretends na feel niya. Excited nga ako dahil ishu-shoot pa lang namin yung big scene naming lahat, yung magkakasama majority ng cast sa isang eksena—sina Cherrie Pie Picache, Alfred Vargas, Francine Prieto…

That must be the gratuitous drama scene, then?
The thing is, yung movie, basically, comedy siya. Kahit nagdada-drama kami run, comedy pa rin ang labas. Hindi naman nagpapatawa yung characters namin, it’s just that yung kwento mismo at yung mga circumstances na pumapaligid sa mga characters yung talagang nakakatawa.