Archive for May, 2008
“Getting a Bit Role in Dyesebel, PART 2″
I looked at my watch, it was already 8:00 p.m. The wind brought by typhoon Cosme was getting stronger. It was able to blow some of the rain into where we were seated while earlier I felt secured in that spot.
Another ”kasama sa raket” for a long time already, Gil, joined me and the talent wearing a security guard costume in our small talk. Gil asked me what my role will be. I told him Jenny told me I will be the boss. He said probably he will be my staff! Bryan – the talent caretaker was already “harassed” walking back and forth looking for Rico, another talent. I reminded Bryan for a copy of the script because I wanted to memorize my lines while I have plenty of time to do it. Bryan said that the production people told him that they will give it to me later. They were still very busy for the take they were doing then.
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As a freelance character actor, I humbly believe that I have an edge over my comrades in the industry who are tied up with a management contract with a talent manager. Take this instance: last week, I missed a booking arranged by Ces for Dyesebel suppose to be for a role as Bianca King’s dad. In a matter of days, last saturday however, I was successfully booked by Jenny, another talent supplier for a bit role in Dyesebel. The past nine years that I spent with the showbiz industry as a character actor earned me a number of friends/contacts including talent managers/suppliers and production staff that regularly give me bookings for roles in the movies, tv shows produced by competing networks.
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Last May 1, being a holiday, I woke up at 6:30 a.m. Not my usual waking up time during regular working days. But just like the first thing that I usually do when I wake up, I picked up my cellular phones to check if I have text messages or missed calls. Both cellular phones did not have a single text message during my sleep. I had a missed call though in my Globe phone. It was from Ces Aldaba, a Talent Supplier who had booked me before as Dina Bonnevie’s father in Babangon Ako’t Dudurugin Kita. It registered that he made the call at 12:30 a.m.
I texted Ces to ask him why he called up in such an unholy hour! In a few minutes Ces texted back that he called me because he wanted to book me for a role in Dyesebel. I texted back with all my excitement to ask if it was a go or no go. Ces informed me that when he was not able to talk to me, he did not pursue to look for another talent. He told me that it was already very too late since the production staff wanted the talent to be on the set at 8:00 that morning and the location was supposed to be in Tagaytay! He was given less than 8 hours to look for a talent who should be a mestizo, about 50 years old to play the role of Bianca King’s father.
Read More..>>“An e-mail from a brod on my articles about Palawan”
May I share with you a letter from a fraternity brother, Louis Kierulf ‘68 after he read my posting on Palawan. Hope you will find it interesting.
egay
Hello Brod Edgar,
Though I was in Palawan last summer, I still enjoyed reading your posting.
I was with my family (brother/sister and children.. almost entire clan) and we headed to Palawan w/ so much enthusiasm and we were not at all disappointed.
“Come back, Come back to Palawan, the Conclusion”
I started my series of articles on our recent visit to Palawan with the same title above. I guess I owe you an explanation on why I chose this title that is why I would be writing about it in this concluding article on Palawan.
During my first visit to Palawan in 1987, I met a lot of people in line with my work at the Department of Agriculture with the implementation of the Palawan Integrated Area Development whom later became my close friends. Before I left Palawan for the first time, those new friends warned me then that I will become a victim of “kambak, kambak”. I did not understand that they were saying. So, I asked them to explain what is kambak, kambak. One of them told me a story to explain it. He narrated how one soldier was assigned in Palawan. He was smitten with a local lass. The soldier courted her. They became sweethearts. When the time came for the soldier to be recalled back to headquarters in Manila, he told his girlfriend not to worry because he would come back to her. After a few months that he was recalled to Manila, fate would have it that he would be reassigned again to Palawan. So, he was able to
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