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only because I have three kids and I'm very hands-on.
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And I realized that over time, if I wanted to be there for them,
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I have to cut down on things that I do.
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And I'm an entrepreneur, I do speaking engagements, I coach,
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and I host an everyday show on the Kapatid Network.
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If I added on taping for Teleserie, I knew I wasn't going to see them as much.
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So it was very intentional.
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But at the same time, I didn't need to know what the character was for High Street
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because I knew, dahil lumaki naman ako sa Dreamscape,
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that whatever they offer me was going to be something,
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I'm going to be challenged doing.
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Only because Dreamscape has offered me over time,
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shoes that were always bigger than my feet.
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Meaning, it was always something that was going to push me to be better.
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I always come out better after a Dreamscape.
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Teleserie, Kadenang Ginto, Mara Clara, Agua Bendita, Ikaw ay Pag-ibig,
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Wag kang Mangamba, all these things.
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All these shows have...
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helped me become the actor that I am.
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And more so, a woman as well.
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You said iconic ang role po ni Tori.
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What can you tell us about your character?
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Well, right now, what I can say is that Tori is a venture capitalist.
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So, in business, that is somebody who takes on a role of holding equity in a brand or in a company,
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owning the company, building,
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and right now, she's into big business.
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And this is how her character is introduced in the beginning.
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She's very complex and that's why I love her a lot.
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I think early on, you can tell that she's iconic only because everything she does is always intentional.
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Parang wala siyang ginagawa na walang intention.
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And that, for me, is an icon on its own.
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Because I've played...
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I've played some characters also that were always unsure and that's okay also.
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But ako, I gear towards having characters like Tori who's very intentional in everything that they do.
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You just know and yun yung aabangan mo na parang,
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Ba't niya yung ginawa? May dahilan yun.
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Kasi di ba may mga eksena na you just do the scene because it is supportive of other people's characters.
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While with Tori, she's very character-driven.
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So, her character alone, somehow...
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Navigates through the show in that sense.
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Did you have to adjust pa with Tori?
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Or is it like sa dami ng roles na na-play mo na?
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Mayroon ka bang adjustment sa ganoon siya?
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You know, siguro it's a common misconception when you grew up in a business like I did na
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you sort of parang deboton na lang.
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Like everything comes in easy because nasanay ka na.
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But in reality, at least for me, it is always something new.
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Hindi naman din kasi ako lumakay na parang gusto kong maging artista.
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It was never a natural choice for me.
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It was always, well, I became artista because somebody saw me in the mall, brought to Mr. M.
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So, it was there, the opportunity was there, I grabbed it.
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And even throughout the career of mine, it was always like that na parang, oh, there's the door, it's open.
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While I work very hard, ako lang din kasi I work through whatever I do.
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Like for example, if you give me this, I'll work on it.
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So, I never want to waste any opportunity that's given to me.
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Only because feeling ko, hindi yan darating sa'yo kung hindi para sa'yo.
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And in the same way, hindi siya darating sa'yo kung hindi para sa'yo.
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So, I'm always very mindful of that.
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So, yun, parang ako lang, there was always a big adjustment.
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Especially for Tori because I took an acting hiatus from...
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October until now.
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And for me, that's quite long.
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Kasi sanay ako na I jump from one teleserye to another.
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And often, I shoot for the next teleserye even before my current teleserye has finished.
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So, it's quite long for me.
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October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May.
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So, eight long months of just hosting and coaching and speaking engagements.
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So, nanganay ako.
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Parang ako mismo.
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But kasi naman, excited din ako to do characters.
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So, that kind of helps.
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Pero yung ganyang perspective, at least parang hindi ka nasasana, hindi ka nagiging comfy,
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it gives a new perspective whenever you try on a new role.
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Yeah, definitely.
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And also, I think it is a great application even when you are a non-celebrity.
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It gives you a sense of pride in everything that you do because you know, pinaghihirapan mo yun.
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When anything kasi comes to you easily and you think you can easily do it,
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not only do I feel arrogant when I feel that, but I feel like there's no more room for improvement.
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For me, kasi feeling ko, alam ko na.
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So, I'd like to always put myself in a position, even in our industry, where I don't exactly know what to do.
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That kind of excites me.
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Meron po kayo nabanggit sa BTS na women who never give up. Ano po ito? May relation ba to kay Tori?
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No, women who never give up, I think, is our vibre thread.
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Ako, si Ate Angel Aquino is there, ni Ethel Espiritu, who's our producer in Dreamscape also.
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Now, she works outside of Dreamscape but still heavily with us.
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Miles Ocampo and Ate Nikki Valdez.
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This is, yung women who never give up actually came from the idea that we never give up kasi sending our free dates, hindi kami magkatagpo.
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So, we call each other women who never give up.
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Rightfully so, kasi lahat naman din kami palaban. So, in that sense, parang okay din na yung tawag namin.
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And sino sa mga character mo noon, yung mga mahahambing mo kay Tori?
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As in, super unique siya talaga?
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It's unique in the sense na, it's gonna unfold over time din naman.
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It's unique in the sense na iba yung atake, iba yung ways niya on presenting herself.
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Very, very difficult for me.
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Kasi kadalasan diba, we think that being out there, whether you are contra vida or vida, being out there is the best way to go.
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But the hardest part kasi of being an actor, especially when you've been doing this for a very long time, is controlling yourself.
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Is making the right choices for particular scenes.
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So, yeah, sure you wanna show all your chops.
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But when you're matagal artista, what you want?
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What you want is finesse.
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You wanna be able to just show a little bit for them to get excited over it.
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And that always is a challenge because it is innate for us human to wanna show off all the time.
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And kahit, diba, kahit ikaw, kunwari kahit introvert ka, when your time comes, you wanna show the gifts that were given to you, diba?
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Because we all have God-given gifts.
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But as an actor or as a creator,
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the work, I feel, is best achieved when you know when to stop.
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When you know when to give it.
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When you know when to give it to somebody else.
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It is not, well, it is okay for me.
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Well, it is okay to shine all the time.
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Often, you also have to learn how to let other people shine.
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And that, I feel, makes a very good creator.
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It's when you know when to make these tiny choices.
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And that's where the teamwork shows.
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And in a teleserye, it's never one person.
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Kahit umarte ako ng mahusay, kahit magaling silang lahat, kung ang ilaw namin hindi maganda, kung ang director namin hindi kami jive,
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it's going to be very difficult to show the material at its best form.
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May special preparation ka bang ginawa for Tori since she is iconic?
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I had to learn how to silent my mind.
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Well, kasi I'm very excited.
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I'm coming in cold from a hiatus.
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That means there are so many ideas I want to give to Tori.
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So the preparation for Tori is not more like, what do I want to do?
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It's really more what I don't want to do.
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Am I making sense to you?
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Kaya lalo ka na-intrigas ako kung sino si Tori.
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It's very interesting, no?
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So imagine, for her, it's never about what she shows.
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It's about what she shows but what she doesn't show.
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And di ba ang hirap gawin nun?
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Kasi ikaw, sa atin, pag artista ka, when you are in front of the camera,
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it's always about what they see.
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But what they don't see is what excites them.
