No wonder the confirmed Young Superstar remains to be one of the real favorites of veteran filmmaker Jerry Lopez Sineneng. There are two other actresses. With this actress, he points out an important reason: he knows very well how Judy Ann Santos will attack her roles.
May they be protagonists or bida-contrabida as she will become anticipatedly in wonderfully piloting Starla, Direct Jerry added that “she is, in fact, an actress who,”when I work with, doon lumalabas ang pagiging tunay na collaborative nature ko” In time this was what JLS had already perceived himself to be. At sa tagal ng panahon na nahasa na siya bilang isa sa mga direktor na may puso when discussing a role and making a scene that will instantly touch viewers, no matter how subtle or less dramatic it will be, Direct Jerry as he addressed by peers and co-workers, stresses firmly na,”palagi nang ganon ang ginagawa ko. To be collaborative sa lahat sa set.”
The 50-something director who remains youthful in his stance when answering questions and slowly revealing what makes his very hands-on plus parently behavior on the set is, he gives this example answer to explain. “Sa case kase ni Juday para kaming magka-klase tapos magka-chika na wala lang, hahahaha! Kase ito nga naging magkaibigan na kami. Alam na namin gamayin ang isa’t-isa,”. That means when she discusses with him the scenes she is in, “our talk, maglalatag kaming dalawa, palitan, viewpoint namin pareho pakinggan namin, balitaktakan lang, kung saan manggagaling at kung saan papunta ang character niya”.
So si Direct JLS din pala mismo ang makikinig sa aktres. Magiging mapagbiya siya “kase at the end of the discussion before sumalang sa camera, gusto ko ironed out na kaming dalawa over how she will show this and that emotion when an important dialogue delivered by her character. Para lumabas ang mga gusto kong palabasin sa mga eksena niya”.
“She is an actress who has nothing more to prove. Pero gustong gusto pa niyang matuto” Here the director surmises that such kind of actor or actress with that attitude over his or her work goes beyond their pagiging mga aktor. “Professional siya na mahal ang pagiging aktres niya,” says JLS.
A former movie staff in the very mid 80s who rose from the ranks getting to become a wardrobe master, scriptwriter, assistant director and now a full-fledged director, Direct Jerry made so much mark in the teleserye landscape with directing full shows and even several episodes of like Esperanza the Movie, the original Pangako Sa ‘Yo and even Kadenang Ginto. Hit seryes where his trademark themes always gear towards pagmamahal sa pamilya at pagmamahal sa buhay. Therefore, kung ang mga main characters ni Direk Jerry ay bida man or contrabida, nandoon pa rin ang pagkakaisa ng pamilya,
“Since I’ve always been calling myself a collaborative director because of the way I work from cast to crew, I know kung paano ipapakilala ni Juday ang character niya,”. That can mean na minsan hindi enough ang aarte lang on cam, hindi lang hugot pati ang need ng artista. “Dapat hindi bibitiw ang manonood sa ‘yo. An actress like Juday can always do that,”. Nobody can argue with the director when he says that.
