Lea Salonga needs hubby's OK for bed scene with Aga
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Lea Salonga needs hubby's OK for bed scene with Aga
By Rachelle Siazon, ABS-CBN.com | 04/17/2010 11:28 PM
MANILA, Philippines - In spite of her nonstop concert tours abroad,
international singing sensation Lea Salonga excitedly shared that she
already set aside some time for her upcoming movie with her original
Pinoy ka-love team Aga Muhlach for around late 2010. It’s the showbiz
comeback that she has been waiting for since 2008.
“Now, it’s all about getting the right storyline and the script. Once
that happens then madali na lang yun since I know who my leading man
is already, that's a given, I already know. And I’ve been texting him
let’s do this na. Sabi naman niya, ‘Oo, basta I’ll take care of you.
Don’t worry Lea, it’s going to be special for us and for everybody.’ I
was like, ‘Okay, ipinangako mo sa akin ‘yan ha.’ So I’m depending on
Aga to make it special,” she happily exclaimed during her press con
for Bounty Fresh Chicken last April 12.
Contrary to her previous interviews, however, Lea clarified that doing
a bed scene with Aga is something she has to discuss first with
Chinese-Japanese husband Robert Chien.
“Ay, no! Ayoko, ayoko, ayoko [ng bed scene]. A kiss is okay, and my
husband knows it, but anything more than that I don’t know. Of course,
I need to ask permission from my husband first out of respect for him.
I know Aga and his wife Charlene [Gonzales], but I got to be
respectful of him (Robert), too because I have to answer to him at the
end of the day, you know. And so, obviously, both of us are going to
have to read the script,” she explained.
When told that it has been Aga’s trademark to have controversial love
scenes, Lea remarked that she had also noticed how young his leading
ladies were in his previous films.
“Never mind kung sexy e, pero bata, mga bagets! I was like, ‘Okay,
what’s up with you being paired with somebody who’s 23 or 24 years
old? What's up with that?’ You know, I kind of want to do this film
with him because then we don’t have to be young. We could just be who
we are. And when I saw the Hollywood movie It’s Complicated (starring
Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin), they're older, sexy… They’re so smart
and incredibly funny. Why don’t we do a movie with people like that?
That it’s about the older ones being savvy and smart, you know?”
If that’s the case, then would she reconsider doing a sensual but
artistically done love scene that will give justice to a beautiful
story?
“I don’t know okay? The script can be [changed], everything’s up for
discussion. I mean, he's 41, I’m 39. You know what, it'll be whatever
it'll be. But I’m just hoping that please do not give us puppy love
anymore because we have families and children. Wala ng maniniwala if
we do a movie where we play pa-cute,” she replied with a laugh.
While waiting for the movie, Lea will be busy with her U.S. tour this
summer: Paris Hotel, Las Vegas with Patti Austin (April 17), Casino
Morongo, Cabazon, California (April 24), Saban Theater, Beverly Hills,
California with Patti Austin (April 30), and Performing Arts Center
with Patti Austin (May 1).