“Medyo nagdalawang-isip ako kasi it’s a serious film…I was asking myself, 'Bagay ba sa ‘kin? Kaya ko ba ‘to?'"
Esquire Philippines sits down with Vic Sotto and Piolo Pascual to talk about their upcoming MMFF movie, The Kingdom.
Esquire Philippines sits down with Vic Sotto and Piolo Pascual to talk about their upcoming MMFF movie, The Kingdom.
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00:00It was very challenging very very challenging. I had to rehearse my lines
00:04Oh, I'm a big fan of bossing growing up. You know, I'm like, wow. Hi guys. I am piolo
00:10I played the role of slow in our film the kingdom
00:15Hi, I'm big Soto. I'm Laquan McKissick of the kingdom
00:31It's a different movie
00:34It is one film that I don't think we've ever seen before. It's
00:42Extraordinary, it's an out-of-the-box
00:46Concept which makes it very special
00:49yeah, and
00:51for me, it's a
00:53Imagination of the Philippines if you can't picture the Philippines in a different
01:00Kind of government. This would be it. So and the story will revolve around the situation
01:07First family, it's a visual delight
01:10the set the production design
01:13The costumes the locations. It's it's it's something you have to see in a cinema. There's so much anticipation
01:21I haven't seen the finished product yet, but there's so much anticipation because everyone really worked hard to make it work
01:27So just like what washing said, it's something out of the box something different something definitely I haven't done
01:32You know my career as our director Mike Tavira puts it
01:38He calls it an alternative reality, yeah
01:43I
01:47Had to prepare a lot I
01:49Had to sit down with my director
01:52So many times we talk about the character the characterization because this is something new to me
01:59What is a what is a king like we're not familiar with that kind of character. How does he act?
02:05How does he how does he stand?
02:08alone posturing
02:10And all that stuff I really had to sit down with the director and
02:15So I will understand the character
02:18It's very challenging. Very very challenging
02:21I had to rehearse my lines one week before the scheduled shoot because the lines are
02:28As Piola mentioned earlier malalim Filipino Matalinaga
02:34Baga, um, I enjoyed training
02:37For martial arts because we had some action scenes and we're gonna showcase Pinoy martial arts here
02:43so aside from
02:45the training that I had to do for farming and to look the part it's
02:51It's he's kind of easy to understand
02:53so I just had to really read the script and
02:56Make sure that I understood the message of my director and the message of the character
03:03Ah
03:07I'm a big fan of bossing growing up. You know, I'm like, wow, it was really a dream come true for me
03:14You know doing the scenes with him
03:15I'm like, I was in awe because I love me pin up another ending cake
03:19Sena was like wow
03:20It was a treat for me and also with the whole cast and how passionate our director was whenever he would tell us the scene
03:27What the scene is about it's a it's a very solid concept
03:31So working on the film in the set
03:34Everyone just really worked hard just to make sure that we didn't leave any stones and turned knowing that this is an epic drama
03:41so
03:43Definitely everyone just really delivered, you know, and it's not the usual
03:49Conversation you will have so we really had to be careful with how we would deliver the lines. So it was an exercise
04:01The
04:05Whole of the Philippines, it's further for the country
04:08It's for us to realize the choices that we have and the what-ifs of our life
04:14for the whole family
04:16because it's
04:17It's also a family drama
04:20the king's relationship with
04:23children
04:24with the people
04:26the whole nation and
04:28People like
04:30Yeah, you know Tommy's outcast and
04:35He plays a role. Yeah, it's like
04:38two stories
04:41Happening at the same time. It's like going up the mountain
04:47And then we meet that's a climax of the film
04:58You