John Lloyd Cruz open to doing a movie about OFWs

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00:00He's a great star, so this is to start with, but not all great stars are born equal.

00:16There are a lot of great stars in this world, coming from different communities, different

00:21ethnicities, but when we thought about our OFWs, the only name that came to our mind

00:28was John Lloyd, because of the similarities that his career has with our own company.

00:34Whether being a star and us being a leader in the industry that we run, but at the same

00:39time, him being very resilient in the career that he has had so far.

00:47I have this advocacy about films, to make it global, and I have that with ABS-CBN, of

00:59course ABS-CBN is also a global brand, but Western Union can definitely help me in promoting,

01:09or if I'm doing maybe a film right now, and I want it to reach my fans all over the world.

01:17I think they can be some kind of instrumental about that desire of mine.

01:28I understand that there's a big pressure when you get into a deal of endorsements, but let

01:38me tell you, what I'm learning now, this I would not learn if I did not welcome the

01:47opportunity to meet these people, to meet this brand, and to be part of their family.

01:54I'm really learning a lot, and I cannot wait to apply it in my own personal career.

02:01You just have to be sincere with what you do.

02:04Of course, my top priority is films, because that's my first love, and if you understand

02:13films as a form of what I do, you can understand that in any performance that I give, I try

02:25to keep it sincere, and it's very simple to me.

02:35You go out there, you step out of your house.

02:39Some people think of it like, once you step out of your house, you start working.

02:44That may be true, but with me, that's not going to work for me.

02:52The moment I step out of my house, I'm still myself.

02:57I keep it real.

03:01I'm in love with cinema.

03:03Cinema as a whole.

03:05Cinema not being divided as independent or mainstream.

03:10Cinema is just cinema, whether it gains massive success or not.

03:18I just love cinema, and I think I'll die doing cinema, or maybe not limit myself just to

03:28be part of it.

03:29Maybe producing is something I like better than directing, because I think that in producing,

03:37you are given absolute freedom.

03:40Maybe I want to do something that will uplift the spirits of the Filipinos or Kababayans

03:49outside the Philippines.

03:52This is a good time.

03:53I think this is a good time to create a film for them that will showcase their desires,

04:02their passions, their struggles, their hardships.

04:09Dubai, I know that I did Dubai.

04:122005.

04:132005.

04:14Maybe we need to, maybe we can do something again that is not exactly like Dubai, but

04:22there's a lot of beautiful stories to be told.