“The setup was long and the blocking lasted an hour. But we did it in one take. Before the scene, Direk Gina told me, ‘Claire, this is just a job. I’m sorry, but we have to do it.’ After that, someone yelled, ‘Action!’” Claire related. “I couldn’t open my eyes after because there was so much cake on my face. Three days after, I feel like there’s still some left in my ears!”
Looking back, intense scenes like that can be quite therapeutic especially for someone like Claire who doesn’t voice out her feelings often. “I’m the type who gives others many chances, even if they have done me dirty. So, I don’t let it out immediately. I feel like it’s my chance to release those emotions when I do those scenes,” she said.
Because she has only been in show biz for two years, the 23-year-old Kapuso talent said she still has much to learn. And working with someone like Gina was exactly what she needed.“I have this process where I curl up in a ball and wait for the tears to come. And Direk Gina was concerned about that, because she believes it would be too draining for me, especially if I have to shoot a lot of crying scenes in one day,” she said. “She taught me techniques I could use.
And her preconceived notions about working on a television series, Claire said, couldn’t be farther from her actual experience. “When I was outside looking in, I had this image that people on the set are always masungit … that the directors are scary. But it wasn’t true. All my colleagues were all kalog and very nice,” she said.When she’s feeling down in the taping bubble, she calls her father for some reassurance.
“I like doing offbeat roles because I’m a quiet person and I get to express things I can’t in real life. But I have been told by more experienced coactors that playing pitiable characters is actually challenging. I will study and prepare if I get something like that, because I want to be better.” INQ
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