Pacquiao shrugs off opposition to ‘Malvar’ role
Credit to Author: JAVIER J. ISMAEL| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:35:01 +0000
WORLD boxing icon Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao dismissed as a non-issue opposition to
his playing a major role in the movie “Malvar.”
Pacquiao said he would support an actor to play “Malvar” role as he asked movie moguls to produce historical movies.
Pacquiao said historical movies must be produced so that Filipinos would not forget their national heroes, who spilled their blood to buy freedom and liberty that the current generations now enjoy.
Relatives of national hero Gen. Miguel Malvar objected to the selection of Pacquiao in playing as the late general.
But lawyer Jose Malvar Villegas Jr., head of the JMV Film Production which is making the “Malvar” movie, said “the overwhelming acceptance and acclamation of the
choice of Senator Pacquiao to play the major role in the movie ‘Malvar,’ as General Malvar was proof that the public has accepted the fact that Senator Pacquiao, beside being a senator, is well-known in the movie world as ‘consummate actor, beside being a boxing world champion famous all over the world.’”
“The critics who want to twist the choice of Senator Pacquiao do not do justice to the ability of Senator Pacquiao as an actor and smacks figment of imaginations of the politicians who are even using close relatives of General Malvar to sow intrigues to serve the interest of some political sectors opposed to the government and act as apologies (sic) for the foreign colonial regimes that occupied the Philippines for 400 years,” Villegas said.
Villegas is a grandson of General Malvar.
“The life and times of General Malvar in the history belongs to the people and cannot be monopolized even by his immediate family, as provided for in the Heritage Law and anybody can write or do a movie on the National Hero even without the consent or knowledge of his next of kin,” Villegas added.