“It’s not my priority right now,” he says. “I’m just happy that TV5 is giving me a lot of work, like pairing me with Ritz Azul in ‘Misibis Bay’. My main concern is doing better in my Tagalog para when I deliver my Tagalog lines, hindi tumatawa yung people around me. As of now, I can speak it, but I still have an accent. Gusto ko, mawala yung accent ko.”
Ritz and his other co-stars in “Misibis Bay”, which starts airing tonight at 8 PM after Derek Ramsay’s “Undercover”, are all very helpful in teaching him to deliver his Tagalog lines fluently. “Mababait sila lahat sa akin, even my male co-stars like Victor Silayan, Vin Abrenica and Luke Jickain, tinuturuan nila ko mag-Tagalog. Then there’s also Megan Young, who plays Lara, my girlfriend na very helpful din sa akin. When the story starts, we’re about to get married. Kaso, I met Maita nga, played by Ritz na nagustuhan ko without knowing she’ll be my young stepmother dahil pakakasalan siya ng father kong si Christopher de Leon.”
