by josephine bonsol, August 22, 2013
Imagine how painstaking it is for a single mom
bit player strut all types of tricks to get roles to earn enough for her
daughter's tuition fee? I've laughed hard and cried at the end of Star Cinema's Cinemalaya 2013
award-winning "Ekstra" (The Bit Player) last Saturday at
Trinoma sponsored by Vilma Santos Solid International Inc.
An hour
before the show, fans of Batangas Gov.Vilma Santos-Recto, the Star
For All Seasons flocked the Trinoma Cinema lobby wearing yellow and black
shirts marked "Ekstra" excited at the block screening. A few
minutes later, Janice De Belen with her kids showed up to line up and soon
after, the Best Actress of Cinemalaya 2013, Vilma Santos graced the
crowd cheering for her. The movie for some was cut short as the ending seemed
to have unfinished business. However, I found it truly appealing the female
majority especially the mothers as it centers on the story of Loida (Vilma
Santos) trying to accept as much role as she can as the bit player to
suffice the tuition fee requirements of her daughter ( a cameraman who
impregnated her when she started as Ekstra). It broke my heart to see
every child rejected by the talent coordinator (Josie) who may have been not a
fictional character because I've met a talent coordinator with the same name
when I was young. Invited to play as the crowd at Sharon Cuneta's movie in the
90s, I've felt the same excitement and pain Vilma did at Ekstra. It was
quite a career I thought I would never want to pursue after that experience.
The movie made me reminisced the pains of shooting a movie and made me realize
how it is so difficult to create an episode of a teleserye. What's interesting
about the movie is that all of the characters are all real bit players except Vilma
Santos. As the lead star who plays the role of a bit player in a movie, Vilma
Santos will melt your heart towards the end. I truly loved the last scene
and I've related the same experience every stressful day at work trying to eat
the food you brought home to your child. Each bite was just too difficult to
swallow when you have worked so hard to get to your goal. Vilma Santos
once again proved that she is the Best Actress. Like what she always said,
"No role is small as each character/each Ekstra contributes to the
success of every scene". Watch Star
Cinema's "Ekstra" still showing at all cinemas nationwide.
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