Aired (August 8, 2024): Ibinahagi ni Benjamin Alves na ang sunod niyang gagampanan ay ang pagiging ama sa totoong buhay.
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00:00The Widows' War
00:05The Widows' War came at a point in your life when I think you were starting to question,
00:11is there still room for me?
00:13Am I close to the end? Take me there.
00:16You just see it. You just see that the door is not as open or not as wide as when you first entered 12 years ago.
00:24So, having that self-awareness that this might be one of the last few ones.
00:30Just so, I'm always a future, a forward thinker.
00:33So, you kind of want it so that nothing will surprise you.
00:36You won't be surprised that you're gone.
00:39So, I think it helped because when I got the role of Basil, all in.
00:45There's nothing, you know, I wish I had that attitude for all my roles.
00:51This is the last one. You got to go 110%.
00:54No, but it's not late.
00:55Right?
00:56The attitude that this is the last one.
00:58Nothing to lose.
00:59Nothing to lose.
01:00And you talk about complacency.
01:01Yes.
01:02Being a disease.
01:03What's the cure for that?
01:04Being challenged. Challenging yourself.
01:07Always, right?
01:08Yeah. And being humbled. I think that's one of the...
01:10You always say that.
01:11Humility over hard work is what matters here in our industry.
01:16Yes.
01:17Yes.
01:18I wouldn't say I'm a veteran per se, but being in the industry long enough to know that
01:24I've worked with people that are still here because of the humility.
01:28And I'm astounded and I'm surprised when they're on set that they don't have...
01:33Because they're arrogant.
01:35Yeah. And I think acting and being an actor is one of the few professions that even if you're a 30-year veteran
01:41and in the first year veteran, when you step in front of the camera,
01:45you're even-feeled.
01:48So, the humility comes from that.
01:50That you'll help the co-actors.
01:53Like with me and Bey, she's my senior.
01:56So, the humility of her and her focus to respect my craft and I respect hers,
02:03that's why the scene looks good.
02:05What are your dreams now as we talk?
02:08As an actor, more challenging roles to be challenged.
02:11Because sometimes you have to say it.
02:12Yeah.
02:13Yes.
02:15As an actor, being challenged and recognition, I think.
02:19I think when you spoke about it earlier, when I see Kuya PJ's house,
02:23the thing that I focus on, no matter how grand the house is,
02:26is the endless walls of awards.
02:29And I've always...
02:31Like, you know that this guy built this house because of that passion he had
02:34and that talent he had.
02:36So, yeah, I think recognition.
02:39I don't know if that's a good thing to say.
02:42Was it last year when you were nominated in the ASEAN Awards?
02:46Yes, yes, yes.
02:48After 12 years.
02:50Sometimes you don't know when to start.
02:53Sometimes it starts after...
02:56I mean, great actors like who?
02:58Cesar Montano was in the business for quite a long time
03:02before he got into the business really big.
03:06People waited.
03:08But where are you at this point in your life?
03:11As a husband, as an actor, where are you at this point in your life?
03:15When you asked me what's my next role earlier during the break,
03:19that would be the perfect role I would want is to become a father.
03:22That would be...
03:23Both on screen and in real life.
03:25Oh, I've done it on screen, but in real life.
03:27Oh.
03:28Yeah, in real life.
03:32From people that are co-actors that I've worked with,
03:35there's a deeper...
03:37When you're on set, there's a deeper meaning.
03:39And there's a deeper reason why you're on set.
03:41And the excitement on the mic, specifically.
03:44Their excitement to go home to see their family.
03:47I want that.
03:49I want that for me and my wife.
03:51Chelsea, who's watching right now, last question.
03:55One day, your child will watch this.
04:01God willing, and may you be blessed with children.
04:06If you were to talk to your child, right this very moment,
04:12what would you say?
04:15Son or daughter, I hope you're proud of me.
04:18I hope that...
04:22I hope I'm raising you correctly.
04:24And I hope I'm ready.
04:28Does he, she make you happy?
04:30Yeah.
04:31And you're my reason.
04:32You're my reason why I'm still here.
04:34You're my reason why I'm happy.
04:35And you're the reason why I work.
04:38And I get to do what I love because I love you.
04:41Benjamin, thank you very much.
04:43Thank you so much.
04:44Hopefully, they'll bring back Basil to Windows War.
04:48In whatever way, I don't know.
04:50But hopefully, we'll find out who's the one who joined him.
04:54That's an indicator.
04:57Thank you very much.
04:58Thank you, Ben.
05:00Thank you very much for joining us.
05:03And be kind.
05:04Make your mom and dad proud.
05:05Say thank you.
05:06Goodbye for now.
05:07God bless.
05:30God bless.