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Current Film Development Center of the Philippines (FDCP) chairman and acclaimed director and screenwriter Jose Javier Reyes remembers what he considers one of the most fun movies he has ever done.

During the PEP Spotlight: Sine x Cinemalaya event, where some of the showbiz personalities mentioned in the book "100 Sine.Film.Pelikula: The 100+ Greatest Movies of Philippine Cinema" were present, Direk Joey was asked about his 2003 film, "Kung Ako Na Lang Sana," starring Sharon Cuneta and Aga Muhlach.

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00:00Direct Joey Reyes, because Direct Joey is always a spokesman, he's always an
00:11organizer, he's always all these big things, but I did not know that he could
00:17do the perfect romantic film. Direct, how did you do that, the perfect pitch?
00:25Thank you so much for that wonderful question, three points, firstly when Star
00:35Cinema offered me a movie with Aga and Sharon, the first thing that struck my
00:41mind is how am I gonna do it, what am I gonna do with this, how am I gonna deal
00:45with this, because you have relatively mature leads, now you can't have the
00:51usual teenage rom-com sort of thing, I wanna push it into another level, and it
00:56just so happened that I had a pair of friends who were together, they were
01:01good friends for more than 15-20 years, but they never realized they were meant
01:06for each other, okay, sometimes your soulmate is somebody who is in
01:11front of you, but you do not recognize, I think I'm gonna work on
01:16something like this, and Taman Tama Joanne, thanks to, you know, God bless
01:20her and dipity, I was riding my car when Elma Madua called up, and what was
01:24playing on the car radio was Kenny Rogers' Through the Years. Okay, I'm gonna use this
01:31as a theme song, and I'm gonna create a story of two best friends, who come from
01:35extremely different kinds of characters, and then they only realized in the end
01:40that they were meant for each other. Now, how did I get the chemistry of Sharon and
01:44Aga? I made sure they were friends, because they never worked together before, but on
01:51the set, my sets are very, very comfortable, okay, even when I do movies like live show,
01:58or, you know, really, you know, really gritty movies, I make it a point that
02:01everybody's comfortable, and it's a Marcada movie, so everybody got to know each other,
02:06because if there is one rule on my set is nobody is acting. Nobody is acting, because
02:12what should come out is the natural relationship between two people who became
02:16friends, and eventually fell in love, or sometimes they're in denial of that they
02:21are in love, because you're so scared that if you go beyond the borders of
02:26friendship, you would lose the entire relationship. So, you know, it was one of the
02:31most fun movies I've had, and it surprises me that years later, people still say that
02:38that is one movie that they remember more than may minamahal, okay, and it's because
02:44it's a little bit, no, it's not a little bit, it's more mature, it's a more mature look
02:49at human relationships, and I wish we could have more romantic movies, because romance
02:55does not die with age, I think romance is like wine, it becomes more precious with age, and
03:02I hope, okay, I wish, okay, I wish we could do more movies about, you know, I'm so glad
03:13that Charo and Ding Dong did something like that, and I hope we give chances to mature actresses,
03:20artists, and actors, to find love, and show love, and teach the young people that, you know,
03:28love has no age limit, and it's love, love is as important as oxygen.
03:41You really are such a romantic man pala.
03:45Now, oh, yes, yes, totoo.
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