Here is the transcript of the recently conducted pocket interview with Solenn Heussaff, Rhian Ramos, and Bianca King for the upcoming 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival movie entry "Sosy Problems" wherein they shared they thoughts about the film.
It reads:
Q: What are your
characters in the movie?
SOLENN: “Ako
dito
si Margaux, I am half-Filipina and half-French.
Wala na akong dad and my mom is married to a French ambassador. Super
super yaman kami. Actually, wala naman akong masyadong problema
except that lagi lang akong in competition with my bestfriend, Claudia
(Heart
Evangelista). Bukod sa amin, yung mga
mommies din namin are competiting with each other.”
RHIAN: “My
character’s
name is Lizzie, and she’s the richest in the group. She’s very flashy;
she’s never subtle. She likes to flash her money around. She’s also
bossy. Her problem is actually more of an internal
problem. Her friends and family just
give up on her because she’s really a brat and she’s very annoying. She
finds herself by finally living a life of
simplicity. The funny part in it is that
when you take someone who doesn’t know how to do what common people do
and you
put them in a situation where they have no choice, like Solenn in
Survivor
(laughs).”
BIANCA: “My
character’s name is Danielle. Yung
pamilya ko dito ay naghihirap na kasi my dad who is a former politician hinuli
na ng pulis dahil sa mga kasalanan niya.
Kahit naghihirap na yung family ko I still try to keep up with my “sosy”
friends. Aside from the whole family
issue, my character is also the one who is looking for love but for the wrong
reasons: I’m looking for somebody rich to fall in love with me to solve my
family’s financial problems. Mabait pa
rin naman si Danielle kasi ang iniisip pa rin niya ay yung family niya. But in the end, she realizes that love is not
like that pala.”
Q: How similar or
different is “Sosy Problems” from the real world of the socialites?
SOLENN: “The film
is really a parody and an exaggeration of the real world of the
socialites. For sure may mga tao na
ganun talaga but maybe they’re just like 10 or 20 percent of the total
socialite population. Wala naman
sigurong tao na ganun talaga ka arte. We
can’t even name a real person we know as a peg for our characters.
BIANCA: “Sa case
naman ng character ko, possible siyang mangyari in real life. Kasi ako dito anak ng politician na corrupt
at makukulong dahil sa ill-gotten wealth, and things like these happen in real
life.”
RHIAN: “Pero the
execution of it is really meant to be funny, it’s really meant to be a little
outrageous than in real life. You know,
we made the movie to make people laugh.
It’s not naman like a documentary on sosy people.
“I’m happy
with the way the movie turned out. Kasi
feeling ko ang dami na kasing lumalabas na films pero puro pampaiyak. I mean, bakit lagi nalang tayong
nagpapaiyak. Puwede naman tayong matawa
na lang and have fun with people of all ages, everyone can get in.
“Maiba
naman. Wala na yung mga ‘internal
battles’ so to speak. This movie is
meant to make people happy.”
Q: You said the story
of the movie is an “exaggeration” of the real sosy world, does this mean that
the production budget for this movie is also “exaggeratedly high”
(laughs)? Anong pinaka-sosy in terms of
production cost na dapat abangan ng mga moviegoers dito?
RHIAN: My
helicopter is my favorite accessory. It
makes me look good (laughs). I can skip
traffic all the time. Let’s just say
that the amount invested in this film is the kind of amount that one would
invest in a film with special effects, except that we didn’t have special
effects.
SOLENN: Siguro,
for me, ang pinakamahal was the helmet I wore in a scene where I arrived riding
a Ducati (laughs). Imagine yung
character ko na medyo tatanga-tanga pero at least naka-Ducati (laughs).
BIANCA: Ako,
nothing. My character has nothing much
except for my addition to Evian water (laughs).
Kasi diba wala na siyang pera kasi the banks sequestered all her
family’s properties. But even if wala na
kaming pera, I still would brush my teeth and gargle ONLY with Evian
Water. There was a scene where I am seen
opening a fridge full of Evian Water -- that’s my treasure!
Q: How do you think
your movie will fare in the Metro Manila Film
Festival?
RHIAN: I don’t
really see the film fest as a competition.
I agreed to make this movie because I wanted to make people have the
option to not cry and enjoy their holiday.
I want the people to have to option to see something that is light
comedy and at the same time worth the while.
BIANCA: We are
not really pressured because we’re confident naman that people will like our
film.
RHIAN: I cannot
imagine the scenes going better than how they were done. I mean, from the script to the actual shoot,
everything was really done with care and creativity. Everyone did their best to make the movie
funnier, more creative, more out-of-the-box than we thought it could be.
Q: How was it working
together?
RHIAN: I’m so
excited, happy and thankful for this newfound friendship that I have with these
girls (Solenn, Heart and Bianca) to the point where my family and “lovelife” is
making tampo because I am always with them.
BIANCA: Actually
we’re together almost every day, kahit walang work we always find something to
do together. Kaya naman work didn’t feel
like work on the set.
SOLENN:
Yeah. Kahit minsan ‘pag sinabi nilang
ang call time is 5:00am, excited pa rin kami, sige na game! Ganun.
BIANCA: Kapag may
downtime kami sa taping, all four of us are in somebody’s bed and we spend the
whole time talking, eating and gossiping (laughs).
Q: Do you think you
can sustain your newfound friendship after this movie?
SOLENN: For
sure. Even if we’re going to be busy
with our individual projects, I think we will still going to find time to see
and hangout with one another.
RHIAN: Well,
we’re working on it right now (laughs).
We’re sustaining it.
BIANCA: We’re
trying to come up with something to do together like run together or exercise
together. Pero work-wise, we really hope
that we can work together again.
Q: What is it that
you like the most about this movie?
RHIAN: This movie
is packed with moral lessons and it shows in the end what really matters,
what’s really important – and it’s not only the material things.
BIANCA: The heart
of the story of this movie is really about people and relationships. That regardless of the capriciousness of the
material things we enjoy in life, in the end, what really matters most is what
bonds us together as people – and this transcends age, sex or socio-economic
class.
Q: How do you asses
your 2012?
SOLENN: The year was good. I received a lot of blessings and I also
worked hard. I am very happy, I am very
thankful for all the blessings, for the support of my family and friends and
excited for the coming year.
RHIAN: It has
been a big, crazy and rollercoaster ride this year for me and I started it off
in a very different way from how it’s ending.
I feel the same as when I first entered showbiz, when I was fifteen and
I did my first movie, saw my first billboard. The same things are happening to
me again; I’m getting the same feeling.
I’m excited, I can’t leave when I’m at work kasi I wanna see what’s
happening on the set. When I see myself
in something, it’s as if my heart skips a beat and I go, “I think I’m back.”
I’m just really excited and I will not take anything for granted, never!
BIANCA: For me, I
think 2012 is by far my most fulfilling year.
Kasi I have this checklist of my life, I set goals like what I want,
what I want to do and how I’m going to get them, this year I checked almost all
of them already: I graduated from
college this year, I have two really good shows – one in the afternoon, the
other one in primetime, I played really nice roles, and then this movie. Parang I feel like this is the year that
closed one chapter of my life and now I’m about to open a new one, 2013, which
has bigger goals and more exciting things, and that makes me so excited.
Heart Evangelista,
who is also one of the lead stars of the movie, was not available for the
pocket interview because she was dubbing her dialogues in the film.(www.tvseriescraze,blogspot.com)
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