MANILA, Philippines - You’ve seen her play a woman in love so many times. But you’ll never ever see her scaring the daylights out of you. Nor will you catch her in some make-believe role that can only happen in some out-of-this-world place.
Bea Alonzo admits having turned down offers to do horror flicks and will most likely do the same thing for fantasy projects that will come her way.
“It’s not just I don’t like horror or fantasy films,” she explains. “I just feel that there are many stories on real people, real happenings in this world. I feel better acting out stories that you can really feel because you see them happen in real life.”
As a media person, Bea adds, it’s her responsibility to “represent what’s really happening in our world.”
Her non-fantasy sympathies explain why Bea has not seen a single Harry Potter movie. The story of a boy with magical powers may appeal to many young people like her. But that doesn’t mean she’ll ride on the bandwagon. Fantasy is not just her cup of tea, thank you.
Bea is not closing her doors, though. She says she can make an exception when she sees a redeeming value in the story, or if someone like Peque Gallaga directs a horror or fantasy picture.
“Then perhaps, I can make that kind of movie,” she says.
Otherwise, Bea will stick to the colorful characters she plays opposite perennial partner John Lloyd Cruz and soon, Lorna Tolentino in the family drama Sa `Yo Lamang and Gretchen Barretto in a teleseries with the working title Sisters.
But first, Bea will spend Holy Week, as she’s been doing for the past few years, working.
The family breadwinner is now in the US as guest in Heartthrob & Friends, a concert tour topbilling Piolo Pascual, Sam Milby and John Lloyd. Bea knows that it’s springtime in the US, so she is packed colorful clothes and all shades of makeup in her suitcase.
“I experiment with colors whenever I go out of the country,” she admits. “And I’m so fussy with makeup.”
That’s one of the reasons Bea agreed to be the face of cosmetics line Colour Collection (which now also carries Tupperware brands).
“ It has so many colors which you see in international brands. When you want, say `pink,’ you just don’t have pink. You have Paradise Pink, which is what I’m wearing today,” she says.
The shade of lipstick also means the world to Bea. It should match the personality of the character she’s portraying, or off-cam, her mood at the moment.
Timid, undecided characters on screen call for lighter shades while strong woman roles make Bea wear lipstick with more intense color.
It’s a different story off-cam, when Bea is freer to express her mood at the moment. She resorts to all the colors of the rainbow for this.
When she wakes up in the morning, one of Bea’s first thoughts is what to wear for the day. She picks pink lipstick if she feels all girl.
When she thinks it’s time to glam up, Bea reveals she’s partial to bloody red.
Not all days are sunny and bright. So Bea matches her lazy mood at this time by doing something simple.
“I just put on lip gloss,” she reveals. “This way, I can still look beautiful even if I’m not in my best mood.”
Bea has no reason to have this blah feeling these days. A sibling she’s sending to college will graduate soon. That’s another feather on her cap besides the house she built for her mom.
At 25, Bea feels it’s about time to “think of myself.”
For her, that means investing on something she can call her own, like a land planted to mangrove trees in Antipolo. Bea has asked her mom to oversee the property while she’s busy working.
Meanwhile, Bea has not given up hope on working with her dream leading men: Aga Muhlach and Robin Padilla.
Nothing has come out of talks about a movie with Aga.
“He knows I really want to work with him, but I just don’t know when,” says Bea.
That’s not just a hint. It’s Bea’s outright request.
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