Liza, gets mo? ROMNICK: NASA TAO 'YAN KUNG PIPILIIN MONG MAGING MASAYA

ni Reggee Bonoan @Sheet Matters | March 20, 2023

Dahil sa mga sinabi ni Liza Soberano na hindi niya na-enjoy ang childhood niya dahil maaga siyang nagtrabaho bilang artista ay naging kuwestiyon na ito sa mga artista lalo na ‘yung mga maagang nagsimula sa kanilang karera.

Isa si Romnick Sarmenta sa mga natanong tungkol dito sa screening/mediacon ng pelikulang About Us But Not About Us dahil 5 years old siya nagsimula bilang si Peping sa Gulong ng Palad (1977) at naging child star.

Aniya, “Objective and subjective ‘yan, it depends on you. If you want to think about it, this business can be very brutal. It takes away a lot of your time. It takes away your studies, if you allow it. It will even take away a lot of your happiness, if you allow it. At the same time, if you know the reason why you’re doing it, then if that reason is enough to make you happy, then you will really be happy."

Hindi rin umano niya kayang magsalita sa experience ng ibang tao dahil personal niya itong experience, personal niya itong pino-process, at may sari-sarili silang pag-iisip at tolerance.

Dagdag pa ng aktor, “There can be some things that I can be sour about in this business. But when I look at it from a different perspective, I just have to find the reason to be grateful.

Whatever it is.

I have to be grateful for everything.

“Some of them may not have been nice or some of them may have been painful. But I’m grateful about the lessons I learned afterwards."

Sa panahon daw niya at sa mata ng batang Romnick, parte ng growing up ang ginagawa niya.

“At that time, I thought all children were doing what I was doing. I thought it was part of my growing up. I was already a teenager when I realized I was working and earning money, that I am an actor.

“Acting was normal to me at that time. Everyone around me was very open and family-oriented. I didn’t have that kind of pressure then. I wasn’t thinking I was really working.

“I was already 18 years old when I bought my first Lego toy set. As sad as it may sound for other people, sa akin hindi naman. That was perhaps the right time for me to enjoy playing Lego,” kuwento ni Romnick.

Anyway, puring-puri ng mga nakapanood ng About Us But Not About Us si Romnick na gumaganap na gay sa kuwento. Kasama niya rito si Elijah Canlas na hindi rin nagpatalbog sa ipinakita niyang akting sa movie.

Ang pelikula ay entry ng IdeaFirst Company/Quantum Films at Octobertrain Productions sa unang Metro Manila Summer Film Festival (MMSFF) directed by Juna Lana, na nagwagi ng Best Film sa Tallinn Film Festival sa Estonia. Ipinalabas na rin ito sa Australia at Portugal.

Tinanong namin kung ano ang nakapagpa-"oo" sa aktor para tanggapin ang About Us But Not About Us.

Sagot niya, “They told me they wanted to do a project with two actors in a single location.

Then I was advised, ‘Read the script.’ So I started reading.

“I finished the first read-through. I wanted to read it in a way that everything was fresh for me. I don’t preempt what the character would say. So I was going along for the ride while we were doing the first read."

May mga parte raw sa script na hindi niya ine-expect at lumuluha na lang bigla habang binabasa ang mga linya. Ganu'n daw na-realize ni Romnick na magandang piece ang nasabing pelikula.

“Maganda siyang sabayan. As I was reading it, in the first few pages, I get affected already.

Maganda ang takbo ng story, ‘yung flow, ‘yung kuwento, ‘yung batuhan ng lines."

Ani Romnick, “I was told that my character was a professor and he’s gay. He gets caught up in this weird situation. But they didn’t tell me how the story was going to progress. I guess that helped. The setting of the story is conversational. In a conversation, you usually don’t know what the person you’re talking to would say.

"Tatanggapin mo lang kung ano ang ibabato sa ‘yo, then try to react and respond,” pagbabahagi ng aktor.

Dagdag niya pa, “The way I understood my character, sometimes you want to do the right thing.

You want to be helpful. You want to be a human being, but you get taken advantage of like what happened to Eric. You get caught up in situations that every human being will find themselves in.

You are either unable to express yourself fully or you are able to express yourself fully but is misunderstood. You also have moments when you have an agenda, but you can’t admit it to yourself.”

“Kung may hugot man ako sa film, it was so easy to empathize what those two people are going through. At the same time, lahat tayo, may relasyon,” pahayag ni Romnick.