New Hollywood actresses to do movie in the Philippines

Mark Angelo Ching
Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 05:26PM  |  28 views

 

During the interview, Fil-Am Tara Macken (right) teased her best friend Emily Kaiho (left) about Filipino men. Emily, who was raised in Japan, said she loves Filipino men's eyes.

 

"Filipinos have big eyes, little puppy eyes. Really cute, I think," she said.

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In the movie, Tara and Emily will play sisters, who are very different. Tara is the popular girl, while Emily is the shy girl whose name "nobody knows about." Things will change, however, when a new technological craze comes on campus.

"There's like this Oz connector. It takes you to like a virtual world, like a 3-D world. In this world you can be in this video game, it's like that. So they get hooked onto it, it's like the new drug. The movie's dark and kinda creepy, but there's more fantasy," Emily said.

ASIANS IN HOLLYWOOD. According to Tara, who was born in Kuwait but grew up in the Philippines, Asia is not that "major' in Hollywood yet.

"Nobody knows about... well, not that nobody knows about the Philippines, but it's not major yet. And it can't be like that because there's so much talent here," she said.

Emily, who was raised in Japan, added that Asian actors get a hard time looking for roles because of their nationality.

"They have a certain stereotype. It's like, 'Okay, you're Asian, so you have to be this way. Or you have to be Chinese. You have to look like Chinese.' There's a certain way they look at Asian people," she said.

But in Tara's case, Filipino blood proved to be more of an advantage.

"Filipinos look like any nationality on the planet. When I go out with my Filipino friends, Americans go like, 'Okay, you're Japanese, you're Chinese... you're European-Mexican," she said.

Even so, Tara admitted that her double identity also caused hardship.

"Being like a half-Filipino person in the States, it's really hard because nobody really knows what you are. You're not really Asian, You're not really American. They have no idea of what a Filipino looks like," she said.

If that's the case, is she willing to settle in the Philippines for good to continue her acting career?

"Hey, it's work. So, yeah," Tara said.

Emily agreed with her training partner turned soulmate. "Not definitely, but if it comes along," she said.

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