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SA interview ni Jericho Rosales sa vlog ni Karen Davila, sinabi niya na noong una ay nag-alangan siyang ligawan si Janine Gutierrez sa pag-aakalang 24 pa lamang ito. Ayaw naman daw niyang magkadyowa na 20 years ang agwat ng edad sa kanya.
“I agree with you on that, the purity part. So pure, I thought she was 24, my make-up artist said that she’s 24. And I said, ‘What?! Okay, bye,’ Alam mo ‘yun? Bye, I’m not dating a 24-year-old girl.
“I Google, Google, Google, Google and found out she’s 34. Sabi ko, ‘Oh, okay puwede pala. Puwede pa pala,’” sabi ni Jericho.
Kuwento pa ni Jericho, hindi lang sa ganda ni Janine siya na-attract kundi pati sa ugali nito. Mas marami pa raw siyang na-discover sa dalaga mula nang gawin nila ang Lavender Fields.
“One day I had asked her, ‘Would you like to do a script reading with me?’ I’m sure she has her own version of the story. But why would I ask for a script reading? She’s the only person I haven’t worked with.
“She was going to be my work wife, my wife in the show. All of the decisions that my character was going to do in the show was because of the relationship that they have.
“This is not some easy working relationship. We needed to ano, so I said in my head: ‘Oh, coffee! Script reading and coffee!” aniya pa.
Patuloy pa niya, “I brought my iPad and then we saw each other at a cafe. I brought my iPad out and she started laughing. She was like, ”Holy God, you have an iPad.’ I said, ‘Yes, this is a work meeting.’
“To cut the long story short, six hours later we never got to open the iPad. I was like, it ended up with like, Japanese food at 3:00 p.m. and then she went to her lola Pilita Corrales and that’s it.
“And I was, ‘Wow, I can spend like, three hours talking to this girl…’ That’s when I felt something!” pag-amin ni Echo.
Sa tanong kung ano-ano pang qualities ni Janine ang nagustuhan ni Echo, “She talks calmly, a sweet person who’s like, almost never upset about anything.
“She handles herself really well, with such humility. She’s this type of person that, okay, a ‘no’ is a ‘no’ and a ‘yes’ is a ‘yes’ and she knows her decisions and she does it in a very smooth and soft, tender kind of way.”