Still The Promise

A couple more of articles in relation to Filipino film The Promise, which opens the day after tomorrow.

The Manila Bulletin Online:

The lead stars, Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin, are equally very proud of their latest team-up which has them portraying adult roles. "You should see them in their passionate and intense love scenes," boasted Ms. Abrogar. "It’s something they’ve not done before in their entire career. They play serious and mature roles this time, unlike their pa-cute roles in the teenybopper love stories they appeared on TV. At saka deeper ang acting nila sa pelikulang ito." If only for this, indeed, "The Promise" is one movie to look forward to this love month.
The movie is an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic romance novel entitled "Wuthering Height" which also inspired the 1991 Richard Gomez/Dawn Zulueta starrer "Hihintayin Kita sa Langit." Raquel Villavicencio scripted both "Hihintayin Kita sa Langit" and "The Promise." (Crispina Martínez-Belén)

Inquirer:

Once described by director Mac Alejandre as the only true matinee idol after Richard Gomez and Gabby Concepcion, Richard said he was flattered by the description but that he was not inclined to compare himself to other actors.
“I just do my job,” he said. “But I would like to be a role model to this generation.”
He described his role in “The Promise” as one that he had been waiting for, and the movie as one that “the youth today should be watching.”
Playing the passionate Daniel (Heathcliff in Bronte’s book) to Angel’s Andrea (Catherine), Richard admitted that his love scenes with his co-star had made his heart beat faster.
“At the time we shot the love scenes—there were two of them—it was real for me,” he said. “The first one was very tentative, very experimental, since we were just in the process of discovering each other. The second one was all about passion.” [...]
It is Richard’s first time to tackle an “adult role” such as Heathcliff’s dark, smoldering persona. (Nini Valera)

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights