Sharon Cuneta admitted that she initially felt nervous about working with her ex-boyfriend Richard Gomez in their upcoming movie titled Three Words to Forever.
"Nung umpisa, naiilang ako, naninibago coz I didn't know what to expect. It's been 15 years since we last worked together.
"On and off [kami noon], mostly on, nobody knew," said Sharon in an interview with ABS-CBN News aired last November 2.
Richard is now married to Lucy Torres while Sharon is married to Senator Kiko Pangilinan.
When asked how it was like working with Kathryn Bernardo in this movie, Sharon quipped: "Parang 12 lang baywang niya, tapos 80 pounds lang siya. Tapos hindi magka...kasi dinalaw ni Daniel [Padilla]."
Daniel traveled to Ormoc in order to surprise Kathryn while she was shooting their movie.
Sharon then turned to Richard and exclaimed, "Ganyan ang feeling ko noong tayo!"
They became a couple in 1989. The former matinee idol waited after they finished the movie Kahit Wala Ka Na before telling Sharon of his true feelings.
In February 2018, Sharon said about her relationship with Richard: "No one knows how long Richard and I actually lasted. or Robin and I. Both much longer than anyone thinks."
The Megastar expressed her excitement over her new movie, Three Words to Forever, by posting on her Instagram account behind-the-scenes photos and videos taken on location in Ormoc City in the province of Leyte.
Three Words to Forever serves as the Megastar’s big screen reunion with actor-turned-politician who was her leading man in the movies Kahit Wala Ka Na (1989); Ngayon at Kailanman (1992); Kapantay ay Langit (1994); Minsan, Minahal Kita (2000); and Walang Kapalit (2003).
Richard is on his first term as mayor of Ormoc City and he recently filed his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the 2019 midterm elections.
View this post on InstagramEarly call today and we haven’t even been able to finish one scene! So many more scenes to do tiday.
Three Words to Forever, directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina and produced by Star Cinema, is slated to be released this November.
This project marks Sharon’s first time to work with popular young star Kathryn Bernardo, whose recent film project, The Hows of Us, co-starring her love team partner Daniel Padilla, is a blockbuster hit.
With its P800 million box-office gross worldwide, The Hows of Us is now considered the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time.
The Kathniel movie became the first Filipino movie to cross the PHP600 million mark, beating the PHP571-million domestic gross of Vice Ganda's Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad in 2017.
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Other cast members of Three Words to Forever include Freddie Webb, Liza Lorena, Joross Gamboa, and Tommy Esguerra.
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The cast bonded well on the set in Leyte, especially when they had to take a boat ride together to Kalanggaman Island to shoot some scenes.
The boat ride, however, got Richard, nicknamed Goma, down with cough.
“Because no’ng nagpunta po kami sa isla, no’ng pabalik na nang gabi, sobra yung lamig,” Sharon explained in a video. “Yung jacket niya binigay niya kay Joross.”
Laughing, she went on with her story: “Sabi ko kay Joross, ‘Joross, ibalik mo kay Goma yung jacket, kung di, papatayin kita!’
“Kaya lang, inabot niya kay Tito Freddie dahil nanginginig na si Tito Freddie Webb. Nakakaawa naman. So si Joross, parang naligo, ‘Splash!’”
Joross cut in the video and, also laughing, said: “Ang sabi ko kay Ate, ‘O, ngayon, na kay Tito Freddie na, ano ang gagawin mo?’”
Sharon, laughing harder, replied: “Sabi ko, di ko mapatay!”
Turning to Richard, she added: “E, ang tigas ng ulo nito, nakatayo pa sa harap. Gusto pa malaglag. E, ako, ito [referring to the jacket she’s wearing], water-resistant…”
Richard interjected: “Malamig sa harap.”
Incredulous, she asked: “Naiinitan ka pa sa likod? Sabi ko nga kay Tommy, ‘Tommy, Tommy, say something every once in a while so we know you’re still there.”
The camera panned to Tommy who joined in the laughter.