No comparison
Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:11:49 +0000
By Neil Ramos
WHILE some find it only too easy to acquiesce to comparison with the country’s one and only Superstar, Nora Aunor, there are those humble enough – despite their own acting achievements –to decline even a mere hint pertaining to the same.
Sylvia Sanchez just recently snatched from Aunor the title role in Ronald Carballo’s passion project “Jesusa.” With many pointing to this as testament to her already being at par with Aunor, the veteran actress pleaded, “Please, ‘wag niyong gawin na i-compare ako kay Ate Guy.”
She added, “Ni-katiting na narating ni Ate Guy, hindi ko narating yun. Ate Guy is Ate Guy, no comparison.”
The 47-year-old further maintained, “Irespeto natin ang (titulong) Superstar dahil pinaghirapan ni Ate Guy ‘yan.”
“Jesusa,” set for a summer release, is a drama that centers on a woman seemingly driven to the point of no return having to contend with a multitude of disappointments in her life.
SYLVIA SANCHEZ
This early, many deem it a missed opportunity for Aunor, noting how it could have been another award-winning effort for her.
But why and how did it escape from Aunor’s clutches? And how did Sanchez land the opportunity?
Carballo had a ready explanation.
He shared: “Hindi totoo na hindi siya natuloy gawin ang pelikula dahil sa scheduling problems. Marami lang talaga kaming hindi pinagkasunduan ni Ate Guy.”
Carballo admitted his first choice to play “Jesusa” was Aunor. He even went as far to reveal he wrote the piece thinking of the awarded actress.
“Kahit sa kay Ate Guy sinabi ko mismo na hindi ko gagawin ang pelikula kung hindi siya ang gaganap. Pero ‘yun nga marami siyang conditions na hiningi na hindi na namin in the end kinaya. So malungkot man kailangan namin siyang palitan,” he said.
The writer-director confessed he initially felt bad about what happened but all is now water under the bridge for him.
“Well, inayos ni Lord ang lahat. Maaaring hindi natuloy si Ate Guy sa amin pero napunta naman ang role kay Sylvia na tunay namang maganda ang performance sa pelikula.
“Eventually naisip ko na siya nga siguro talaga ‘yung ibinigay sa amin para mas lalong mapaganda ‘yung pelikula at maisabuhay ang isang materyal na pangarap ko talagang gawin at matagal ko talagang itinago.”
Sanchez made clear she didn’t agree to play the role to eclipse Aunor.
“Isa ako sa mga rumerespeto at humahanga kay Ms. Nora Aunor, sa Superstar natin. At kahit na anong mangyari, kahit hindi niya ito nagawa, ako ang gumawa, hindi niya natanggap, ako ang tumanggap, kapag nagkita kami, lalapit pa rin ako sa kanya at sasabihin ko na walang yabang, ikaw pa rin ang nasa top. Ikaw pa rin ang nirerespeto ko. Ikaw pa rin ang nag-iisang Nora Aunor. Nora is Nora Aunor. Walang makakapantay. Walang makakapalit.”