Kris Aquino
If things go as planned, Kris Aquino will join the cast of a movie based on a bestseller鈥攖he first Filipino woman to be cast in this Hollywood movie.
Aquino flew to Los Angeles on Easter Sunday to meet with the producers and sign the contract, sources say.
About six Filipino actresses, according to sources, had auditioned, but apparently only Aquino had landed a role, so far.
2013 bestseller
Talk has been going around that the movie is based on Kevin Kwan鈥檚 2013 bestseller about an old-wealth Singaporean family, its matriarch Eleanor Young and its heir apparent鈥攖he Ivy-League-educated Nick Young, who flies home to Singapore for a friend鈥檚 wedding with his New Yorker girlfriend in tow.
Kwan gives readers a jaw-dropping glimpse of the lives鈥攁nd secrets鈥攐f the rich and the chi-chi set. Kwan followed up this bestseller with 鈥淐hina Rich Girlfriend鈥� (2015) and just this year, 鈥淩ich People Problems.鈥�
Kwan was in Manila about two years ago and met the lifestyle set鈥攁nd apparently drew inspiration from some of its characters.
鈥淩ich People Problems鈥� has characters whose names curiously sound like those of Metro Manila鈥檚 A-listers, such as Diego San Antonio (Inquirer columnist Anton San Diego?) and Doris Hoh (business leader Doris Magsaysay-Ho).
Obviously the movie producers have had Aquino on their radar. According to our sources鈥攁nd which Aquino confirmed in her Instragram post鈥擥rammy and Tony award-winning producer Jhett Tolentino tried to contact Aquino through intermediaries鈥攕pecifically Nene Chan and Rep. Len Alonte.
Instagram post
In her Instagram post, Aquino wrote she had only a few days to prepare an audition reel, so she got a suite at Peninsula Manila to mount the audition shoot, tapping her network that included director Ricky Villabona, Jules Dacanay and makeup artist Juan Sarte. The team then did rush editing and color grading of her audition reel and video biography.
鈥淎t this particular point in my life, to have the Hollywood door open is God-sent,鈥� Aquino said.
And the suspense builds up.