In the media conference for their upcoming movie, actresses Glaiza De Castro and Jasmine Curtis-Smith shared their thoughts on Midnight in A Perfect World.
Glaiza said that she initially skimmed the Martial-Law reference in the story when she got the script. Glaiza then recalled one of her lines in the theatrical trailers of the film.
“Nung binasa ko yung script, di ko naman sya nakitang, parang yung pinaka element n’ya agad ay martial law. Siguro very ano lang, parang passive kasi dahil binanggit ko yung, binanggit ko sa line yun, na beta version s’ya ng martial law,” said Glaiza.
Then, Glaiza said that she recalled the stories she heard from the Martial Law period when they started filming.
“Until nung ginawa nanamin yung pelikula, syempre di ko naman na-experience yung martial law, kakapanganak pa lang nun sa akin. Pero while, we were doing it kung ano yung mga narinig ko before, stories about it, ayun yung parang na-experience ko sa pelikula,” said Glaiza.
As for Jasmine, she said that the scenes in the movie challenged her physically. She noted that scenes involved a lot of running.
“I’ll say it was more physically challenging. Ang dami naming takbo eh,” said Jasmine.
Additionally, Jasmine also considers the film a good exercise for her acting, but overall she had fun making Midnight in A Perfect World.
“It was a good, parang exercise for all of us. But it was also the physical movement and the awareness of everyone’s blocking, not just ours. That was fun. That was really fun,” said Jasmine.
Jasmine and Glaiza, alongside Anthony Falcon and Dino Pastrano, star in the horror film, Midnight in A Perfect World. Set in a utopian world wherein people mysteriously disappear during random blackouts at midnight, four friends must find a safe house to survive the night.
The cast also includes Bing Pimentel, Soliman Cruz, Dolly de Leon, Charles Aaron Salazar, and Brian Sy. Director Dodo Dayao, the brain behind Cinema One’s Violator, wrote and directed the film. It had a limited screening back in 2020 at QCinema International Film Festival, but ended up as the festival’s highest-grossing film.
The film, produced by Globe Studios and Epicmedia Productions, streams on UPSTREAM.ph starting January 29, 2021, and will be available for a month.
