Aired (January 25, 2024): Makinig ang lahat, dahil may anunsyo ang Presidente sa “Black Rider” na si Chanda Romero! Samahan ang aktres nang pag-usapan nila ng ‘King of Talk’ ang kanyang pagkabata, mula sa takbo ng kanyang karera. Alamin ang lahat ng ‘yan dito lang sa ‘Fast Talk with Boy Abunda!’
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00:00 [AUDIO OUT]
00:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:07 [CHEERING]
00:15 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:20 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:24 And welcome to Fast Talk with Boy Abuelo.
00:26 [CHEERING]
00:27 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:35 Welcome to the program.
00:36 [APPLAUSE]
00:41 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:45 She's probably one of--
00:48 how do I describe this girl?
00:50 She's one of the best people I've known.
00:52 She's one of--
00:53 I don't see her every day, but she is in my heart.
00:56 I love her.
00:57 And I can say that over and over again.
00:59 One of the finest actresses in Philippine cinema.
01:03 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:03 Please welcome the one and the only, Chanda Romero.
01:07 [CHEERING]
01:10 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:20 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:23 [CHEERING]
01:33 I'm so nervous.
01:39 Why are you nervous?
01:42 Oh my god.
01:43 Thank you for being here.
01:44 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:47 Please sit down, Madam President.
01:50 Thank you.
01:51 Of course.
01:52 And how is it doing, Black Rider, Madam President?
01:54 I've only been shooting for like three days,
01:58 but it's exciting.
02:00 This is a very important role.
02:02 Just setting it up and looking at the red carpet
02:06 and all these generals and supposedly senators
02:10 that I'm chastising.
02:14 Makes me feel so important.
02:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:21 Thank you for welcoming me warmly
02:24 to public affairs in Napa.
02:28 And thank you, Director, for taking care of me.
02:30 Is this the first time you're playing a president?
02:32 Yes.
02:33 Beautiful, right?
02:34 It would be great if we only had more than 20 minutes.
02:37 We can talk about processes as to how you attack and you
02:41 go into your roles.
02:42 It's very diverse, very varied.
02:44 But OK, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:47 Good.
02:48 You're looking good.
02:49 You're looking--
02:50 That's probably the way I feel.
02:51 I know, right?
02:53 What is inside just emanates, just comes out.
02:56 And I'm just so happy.
02:58 Thank you.
02:59 Thank you so much.
03:00 I'm just really so happy.
03:00 They were asking me what we can talk together.
03:02 I said, Chanding and I can talk about anything.
03:06 And I was thinking, I was backstage,
03:08 I was listening to you.
03:10 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:12 I really wanted to hug you because I haven't seen you
03:17 in a long, long, long time.
03:19 Easily 15, 18 years.
03:22 About, yeah, around 15 years.
03:25 And that is true when I said that there are friends who
03:29 don't see each other that long.
03:31 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:33 I know that.
03:42 I know.
03:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:45 I don't want to cry.
03:45 I cried yesterday.
03:46 I don't want to.
03:47 Yeah.
03:48 Should I thank you now or thank you later?
03:50 But I might be overwhelmed later.
03:52 But really, at the lowest point of my life,
03:58 you and Jobert really picked me up from my pit,
04:04 the pits of my life.
04:05 And you practically saved my life.
04:08 I wouldn't be here if you hadn't been there, of course.
04:13 Family, too.
04:14 But outside of the family, you and Jobert saved my life.
04:19 We?
04:19 I was coming from a space of love.
04:22 Thank you so much.
04:23 And I miss mommy.
04:27 Yeah.
04:27 I miss-- I miss her because I got some of the most meaningful
04:37 letters from her.
04:39 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:43 You can find some of the best people,
04:45 some of the best friends.
04:47 After that incident, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:50 the challenges that you and I went through,
04:53 one of the most beautiful letter [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:59 And I was so sad because when she passed on,
05:03 you couldn't even go home.
05:05 I couldn't go home.
05:06 If I could have only--
05:08 if I could just get wings and fly to Cebu,
05:11 I was just doing everything from remote trying to look for--
05:17 but for her, it broke my heart because during the days
05:24 of the COVID, I was trying to warn her.
05:28 She, on her part, just wanted to go out, see friends.
05:32 But I said, you know, mom, if you're not careful
05:37 and something happens to you and you have comorbidities,
05:43 it's going to be a very lonely death.
05:45 And it was.
05:46 It was.
05:47 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:50 That must have been so difficult.
05:51 That was so difficult. And knowing that just my brother
05:56 was the only one-- there were seven,
05:58 but it was just my brother who was there--
06:00 brought her to the ER.
06:03 And my brother says, when she turned her back,
06:06 that was the last that he saw of her life.
06:13 When he got her out of there, she was just straight
06:20 from the morgue to the--
06:23 sorry, it's such a-- oh, God.
06:25 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:27 Bless us.
06:28 Blimey, mom.
06:28 I know we stand on your shoulders.
06:31 And thank you for the love.
06:33 Now, I want to go back.
06:34 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:35 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:37 It's called "What Happened to You."
06:41 The short story about it is it's a conversation between Oprah
06:44 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:47 The treatise is basically about [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:53 All the things that happened to you in your youth
06:56 shape the choices and the decisions
06:58 that you make in your life.
07:00 And that's my question.
07:02 What happened to you as a child?
07:06 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:11 What happened to me was I think I
07:16 had the misfortune of being born three going on 33,
07:19 meaning I was so precocious.
07:23 I could see things and absorb things
07:26 that no child should absorb, conversations and fights
07:33 that I would overhear about other women as early as three.
07:40 And I would retain that.
07:45 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:48 When I was 12, my father left the family, my mom,
07:54 with seven children.
07:55 And we were living in a place like Cebu
07:59 where everybody knew everybody.
08:02 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] exclusive rural school
08:08 and stuff like that.
08:09 So I was an outcast because the parents of my classmates
08:14 would go, do not associate with her
08:18 because she's a product of a broken family,
08:21 like you were a leper.
08:24 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:26 12 years old, be cautious that you were.
08:28 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:30 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:32 Broken family.
08:33 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:35 That must have been hard.
08:37 It was like I had this--
08:38 It gutted you in a way.
08:39 Yes.
08:40 It was like being a leper.
08:42 You had this contagious disease.
08:45 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:47 I had to get out of Cebu.
08:49 I ran away from home.
08:52 I quit school.
08:53 I came to Manila with only 50 bucks,
08:56 not knowing what I was going to do here.
09:00 I quit school when I was in second year high school.
09:03 So what could someone like--
09:06 Yes.
09:06 No diploma, no high school diploma.
09:09 What would I be doing here in Manila?
09:12 I had no answers for that.
09:14 I had no plans.
09:15 I just wanted to get out of there.
09:17 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] and you became who you were.
09:23 Donnie Ramirez then.
09:25 Oh.
09:26 Donnie Ramirez was handling the Tagalog Ilang-Ilang--
09:29 Another friend.
09:30 Another friend.
09:30 Yes.
09:32 Tagalog Ilang-Ilang PR man.
09:36 We met in Cebu because I used to model.
09:39 The models before came--
09:41 were [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
09:43 OK.
09:44 So he introduced me to Atty.
09:47 Laksa, and I made my first six black and white films
09:51 under Tagalog Ilang-Ilang with Dilma Santos,
09:54 and the rest is history.
09:55 Do you remember your first check?
09:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
09:59 100 pesos, and I would have to get that check at Burke
10:04 Building in Avenida.
10:07 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:15 And I was paid 500 pesos for that one film.
10:19 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:20 During the time, you were how old?
10:28 I was 18.
10:29 The short of the long story.
10:31 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:32 I just lived day after day after day.
10:35 No plans.
10:36 It was like, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] kind of thing.
10:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:42 I didn't realize--
10:44 I think I haven't gotten to that point where I can say I won.
10:50 OK.
10:51 And that's a secret, because you're still auditioning up
10:56 to this very moment in spite of your successes.
10:59 I don't want to be complacent.
11:01 This is it.
11:02 This is the place I want to be.
11:04 Maybe there's one step more.
11:06 Maybe there's more space in this room that I can move to.
11:09 No.
11:09 You have no problems working with younger stars?
11:11 No.
11:13 No, although it's different now, because it's
11:18 the way other people--
11:21 the younger stars now have the different training
11:24 or different--
11:26 Are they better?
11:28 There are a few really good ones.
11:30 I think that it's just the view of the movie industry
11:36 as a business, not a craft.
11:40 Some kids have that kind of--
11:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
11:43 But we have to do fast talk.
11:44 We have two minutes to do this.
11:45 [CHEERING]
11:47 We have two minutes to do this.
11:49 And you have to do this--
11:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
11:53 --in different characters.
11:53 You can be president.
11:55 You can be the girl in "Working Girls."
11:56 You can be any of those characters.
11:59 I'm sorry?
12:01 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:03 You can be one of the characters
12:04 that you portrayed, OK?
12:06 Two minutes begin now.
12:08 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:10 Favorite childhood memory?
12:18 Oh, my runaway days.
12:20 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:21 TV pelikula.
12:27 Pelikula.
12:28 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:30 Broca?
12:31 Nora Vilma.
12:32 Or?
12:37 Nora.
12:37 Best actress, best wife.
12:41 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:42 Yes.
12:43 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:46 Oh.
12:47 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:49 Correct.
12:55 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:57 Drama.
12:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:05 Wildest thing you've done in the past?
13:07 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:09 [LAUGHTER]
13:10 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:12 [LAUGHTER]
13:14 Let's go to the next one.
13:15 Trip to the moon.
13:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:18 My husband, of course.
13:24 The best-- he came at the best time in my life.
13:26 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:31 Oh my god, you lost me there.
13:34 Flight stewardess.
13:35 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:36 I love to fly.
13:37 Yes.
13:38 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:38 May, December film.
13:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:41 Leading man.
13:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:47 Yes.
13:48 That's a possibility.
13:49 Ruro Madrid.
13:50 Yes.
13:51 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:52 10 million.
13:53 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:55 20.
13:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:58 Do you think Chanda Romero is a good kisser?
14:01 Yes.
14:02 What's your flirt style?
14:04 Just naturally.
14:10 No, I don't plan it.
14:11 Natural lang.
14:12 It comes out.
14:12 Most challenging role?
14:16 [SIGHS]
14:17 Being a wife.
14:18 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:22 Lights on, lights off, Chanda.
14:24 Off.
14:25 Happiness or chocolates?
14:27 Happiness.
14:28 Best time for happiness?
14:31 Any time of the day.
14:33 Call me Chanda.
14:34 Complete the sentence.
14:35 And I want to be remembered as?
14:39 Call me Chanda, and I want to be remembered as open.
14:42 I'm open to loving.
14:43 I'm open to be loved.
14:44 I'm open to new learnings.
14:47 I have open arms.
14:49 I'm open for possibilities.
14:51 [APPLAUSE]
14:53 Lovely.
14:55 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:57 That's number one.
15:04 Mario Bautista, our friend, the late Mario Bautista,
15:07 wrote something that you have this different kind
15:12 of presence.
15:13 I want to talk to you about it.
15:15 Will you ever direct?
15:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:19 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:20 [APPLAUSE]
15:21 [MUSIC PLAYING]
15:24 We're back on the show.
15:26 For today's talk, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:30 So the Buba and Tekla show as it celebrates its sixth anniversary
15:34 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:35 January 28.
15:37 The special comedy [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:39 anniversary episode called T-BATS [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:43 will feature stand-up comedians Ian Red, Pepita, Curtis,
15:48 and singer-comedian Jenny Gabriel,
15:50 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:52 for the Best Stand-Up Comedy Act.
15:55 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:00 After [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:03 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:04 Channels with delayed telecast on GTV.
16:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:10 Good boy, Abunda.
16:12 Congratulations, T-BATS.
16:14 [APPLAUSE]
16:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:18 Congratulations, Black Rider.
16:20 [APPLAUSE]
16:21 All right.
16:21 Congratulations, Napa Black Rider team.
16:24 And thank you, Romel Pinesa and Richard Arellano.
16:28 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:29 Thank you for taking care of me.
16:31 And Sen was saying that last night, you rated so high.
16:36 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:37 Wow.
16:38 Congratulations.
16:38 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:39 [LAUGHTER]
16:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:44 OK.
16:45 The one love-- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:49 The one love affair, the one relationship that comes to mind,
16:53 that you will never forget.
16:56 I think that would be the one that I'm still at now,
17:00 because it's just so different.
17:03 I am lucky to have met a man who took me and take me as I am,
17:10 warts and all, my past.
17:12 He's the kind of man who's not full of himself as macho.
17:18 I don't want to share you, not even with your past.
17:21 And maybe a man who's not afraid of Chanda Romero.
17:23 And who's not intimidated.
17:25 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:27 The present husband.
17:28 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:30 And good looking.
17:33 Yeah.
17:35 Oh.
17:35 OK.
17:36 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:38 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:41 For whatever reason.
17:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:44 No, it's also--
17:45 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:46 I'll ask you something.
17:47 I'm sorry, Chance, because we don't have time.
17:49 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:53 Because-- but he has passed on, that's why I don't want
17:55 to name him.
17:56 I mean, out of respect.
17:57 Let's name him.
17:57 OK.
17:58 I mean--
17:58 Bernardo, Bernardo.
17:59 And he loves both of us.
18:00 And I love him.
18:01 I produced his last short film.
18:04 I produced his last--
18:05 That's right.
18:06 You had this love relationship with Bernie.
18:10 Bernardo, Bernardo, who was openly gay.
18:12 Yes.
18:14 That was different because I think, looking back,
18:18 that was very special because [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:20 I loved him as he was.
18:24 It didn't matter to me what his sexual preference was.
18:29 But I loved him because it was him.
18:32 It was just--
18:33 I just loved the whole of him.
18:35 Although we would really laugh about it,
18:37 we could even laugh about the circumstance.
18:39 When he-- that set up.
18:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:43 When Bernardo loved me, it was one of the--
19:00 when we were together, it was one of the few times
19:03 that I knew it was really love between the both of us
19:07 because no matter what--
19:09 and it was taboo.
19:12 We were just so unafraid and so proud of having found each
19:19 other.
19:19 We were both happy.
19:20 That's good.
19:21 And you were happy.
19:22 OK.
19:22 The late Mario Bautista wrote about you.
19:26 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:27 Of course, a famous scene.
19:34 And Chanda was actually in the crowd.
19:36 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:37 And he proceeded to talk about this presence thing.
19:46 Are you aware of that?
19:47 I am not aware of that.
19:48 Maybe it works well for me that I'm not aware of that,
19:52 when people call it a force or some magic
19:57 or some great presence.
19:59 Because if I were aware of that, then maybe it
20:01 wouldn't be as raw--
20:02 Contrary.
20:03 --and as organic and authentic as it is.
20:06 Will you direct one day?
20:08 No.
20:08 Why?
20:09 Why not?
20:10 I don't think I have the patience.
20:12 I don't have the patience to deal with--
20:16 I cannot compromise with what's artistic
20:19 and what's convenient or what is practical for the production.
20:25 And I don't think I can handle--
20:27 I'm short.
20:28 I'm short in patience.
20:30 Other-- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:34 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:35 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:36 Yeah.
20:37 Chanding, 51 years in the business of show.
20:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:44 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:52 Opened so many doors for me.
20:54 It opened me to see that I was good at something.
21:01 And offered me-- opened a door for me
21:04 to work in the movies, and it's something
21:07 that I really love doing.
21:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:10 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:11 I think--
21:12 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:15 And I opened too many doors.
21:17 I went into some dark places where I lost myself,
21:23 practically.
21:24 I get it.
21:25 And you have flowers.
21:27 Thank you.
21:30 I love you so much.
21:33 Last love.
21:36 We all go at one point.
21:39 Write your epitaph.
21:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:42 Write your epitaph, Chanding.
21:45 Here lies--
21:46 Here lies Chanda Romero.
21:48 She loved.
21:49 She lived.
21:50 She loved.
21:51 She loved life.
21:52 She lived her life.
21:53 Oh.
21:54 [APPLAUSE]
21:55 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:56 It's good.
21:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:58 [APPLAUSE]
21:59 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:01 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:03 Black Rider.
22:04 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:05 The one and the only, Chanda Romero.
22:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:10 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:11 Stay kind.
22:17 Make your nana and tare proud.
22:18 Hashtag say thank you.
22:20 Do one good thing a day, just one,
22:22 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] and make this world a better place.
22:24 Goodbye for now.
22:25 God bless.
22:26 [APPLAUSE]