By GLEN P. SIBONGA
NAGLABAS ng official statement ang The IdeaFirst Company, na pinamumunuan nina Direk Jun Robles Lana at Direk Perci Intalan, kaugnay ng pagkakapili kay Martin del Rosario bilang bagong bida ng “Born Beautiful,” ang Cignal Entertainment TV series na spin-off ng award winning at box-office hit movie na “Die Beautiful.” Pinalitan niya si Christian Bables, na orihinal na gumanap na Barbs sa “Die Beautiful.”
Ang “Born Beautiful” ay produced ng The IdeaFirst Company at directed by Jun Robles Lana, na naghatid din sa atin ng “Die Beautiful.”
Ayon sa official statement ng IdeaFirst: “Award-winning actor Martin del Rosario is now the lead star of Jun Robles Lana’s DIE BEAUTIFUL spin-off series, BORN BEAUTIFUL. After starring in a number of acclaimed independent films – among them ‘Dagitab’ which won for him an Urian award – Martin will portray the expanded role of Barbs, the best friend of Paolo Ballesteros’s character Trisha. Direk Jun explained that it was an interesting twist of fate that led to this casting of Martin, ‘Christian Bables expressed to us that he is no longer available to do Born Beautiful, that allowed me and the creative team to rethink the character of Barbs and what the character can do. We thought of Martin because we recently worked with him when we produced Prime Cruz’s ‘Ang Manananggal sa Unit 23B’ and we know he can bring in a new dimension to the character now that the entire series revolves around Barbs.’ BORN BEAUTIFUL will go into production this November and will be seen on Cignal Entertainment in early 2018.”
Samantala, excited na si Martin dahil siya ang napiling bagong Barbs ng “Born Beautiful.” Nag-tweet pa siya kasama ang title card ng Born Beautiful: “Cameras to start rolling soon! #BornBeautiful.”
