Albert Martinez defends Jericho Rosales

June 4, 2008

ALBERT Martinez just returned from Kuala Lumpur where he’s doing the Fil-Malaysian co-production, “A Time for Us,” with Jericho Rosales. “I stayed there for one month and we shot all over Malaysia, including inside their most famous landmark, the Petronas Towers,” he says.

“I play the stepfather of Jericho’s leading lady, Carmen Soo, and I’m against it when they fall in love with each other. Ang wife ko rito who’s Carmen’s mother is a Malaysian actress named Soo San. Kabangga ko rito ang ninong ni Jericho, si Christopher de Leon. We were given VIP treatment there and we stayed in our own villas na may two bedrooms and two bathrooms each.

Our Malaysian co-stars and co-workers are all very nice, very accommodating, really going out of their way to please us. We rehearse all our dialogue in English so they can understand it, but during the actual, we Pinoys deliver our lines in Tagalog at kapag pinalabas na roon, lalagyan na lang ng Malay and Chinese subtitles.