After the success of his comeback afternoon series Precious Hearts Romances presents Araw Gabi, ABS-CBN Star Magic actor JM de Guzman made his way to the big screen anew in Kung Paano Siya Nawala.
The thoroughly missed actor is sharing the big screen for the first time with Rhian Ramos in the dark-romance film by Joel Ruiz. The film centers on the rare cognitive disease called face blindness, which renders someone incapable of recognizing a person’s face.
JM plays the role of Lio, a reserved young man who’s having a hard time making friends and building a relationship due to his face blindness. He, however, found himself opening up to the world when he fell in love with Shana, played by Rhian, a beautiful and mysterious woman who has secrets of her own.
He’s definitely missed on the big screen as his last project was the 2015 Tandem and the much-raved about indie That Thing Called Tadhana in 2014.
To say that JM did a wonderful job in portraying a pained character would be an understatement as an early review from Manila Standard lauded how he has allowed the moviegoers to experience his day-to-day struggle and eventually made them empathize with his disease.
Alora Sasam singled out the realistic approach of the film “Kaya naniwala agad ako sa lahat ng characters. Nakaka-miss mapanuod si Cheyem sa big screen. Kahit ako nahirapan sa problema ng character niya. Ang cute ng chemistry ni JM at Rhian.”
Fifth Solomon, meanwhile, praised the technical aspect of the film from the shots to the production design to lighting, saying that, it has “indie feels.”
What even makes the movie special is the fact that JM has been very hands on with it as a co-producer.
“Sobrang blessing siya. Hindi ko rin ini-expect na bibigyan ako ng opportunity ng TBA. Mas challenging, mas iba, iba ‘yung experience,” he said.
JM’s co-star Rhian also has nothing but good words for him as she especially noted how easy it was to work with him.
“He is very humble, after what the challenging times he was in, never mo mararamdaman sa kanya na may tinatago siya. He’s just himself. Sa eksena wala siyang vanity, he just gives what the scenes require him to do,” Rhian said.
Catch JM and Rhian’s first big screen project Kung Paano Siya Nawala by Joel Ruiz in cinemas nationwide starting tomorrow, Nov. 14.
