He played a convicted prisoner in “On the Job” on the big screen. He now plays another jailbird in the new soap “Bukas na Lang Kita Mamahalin”. “It helped that when we taped ‘Bukas’, nakapag-research na ako ng husto sa role ng isang bilanggo for ‘OTJ’, so comfortable na ako dun sa role ko at sanay na ako sa set up na kulungan. Here in ‘Bukas’, wala akong kasalanan. I was wrongly accused na ni-rape ko si Diana Zubiri, but noong may mangyari sa kanya, I was so drunk and I passed out kaya wala akong maalala.”
Why did it take more than year before he got a new show after “Budoy”? “Okay naman yun. I won’t have it any other way kasi masyadong tumatak sa tao yung ‘Budoy’ role ko kaya it’s good na may long gap between that and my next show. At okay na okay itong ‘Bukas na Lang’ as my follow up show kasi ang ganda talaga ng material. As an innocent man na nagdusa for a crime he didn’t commit, gustong-gusto ko ang role ko rito.”
