Karylle na starstruck kay Kristine Hermosa

April 26, 2009

KARYLLE was being pressured by some writers as to who between Jericho Rosales and Christian Bautista is closer to her heart but she insists that they’re not even courting her. “Nakakahiya sa kanila dahil pilit akong nili-link sa kanila and people might think I’m using them to be written about,” she says.

Karylle gets to do her first primetime teleserye since she moved to ABS-CBN in “Nasaan Ka Maruja”. She plays Helen, the half sister of Kristine Hermosa, who plays Cristy in the present time. She’s the first one who meets and becomes close to Derek Ramsay, who plays Ross. She’s in love with him but when he meets Kristine, it’s her character that he falls in love with. It turns out that Kristine already keeps seeing him in her dreams and they have a connection in the past, with Derek also playing Gabriel, the man who was Kristine’s ill-fated lover when she lived as Maruja in the late 1940s after the Second World War.

Karylle admits she felt starstruck with Kristine when she first saw her. “I was staring at her and I said, ‘Sorry, kasi ang ganda mo.’ I haven’t worked with her at talagang humanga ako sa beauty niya. I read then na suplada siya but we easily warmed up to each other kasi she’s easy to get along with naman pala. She’s really nice at naging friends naman kami agad, lalo na nga we tape on location pa in Pampanga.”

What about Derek Ramsay? “First time ko rin to work with him and, based on our talks, he lives a very exciting life kasi adventurous siya. He ventures into different kinds of sports so kung minsan, darating sa set, may bagong sugat. I don’t think I’ve met anyone as active as he is dahil laging wala at nag-diving, nag-whale watching, mga ganun. Naisip ko tuloy, compared to his activities, am I missing something in my life?”

Does she like her role as Helen in “Maruja”? “It’s a big challenge as I’m not like her at all in real life. Kasi, kikay siya, outgoing, sosyalera. E, ako, I only open up to the people I’m close with. Hindi ako comfortable being kikay to everyone, but I enjoy playing the role and showing a side of me na hindi kilala ng ibang tao.”

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