Carmina Villaroel Gets Badly Bruised As Battered Wife In 'Bridges Of Love'

CARMINA VILLAROEL plays a daring role in “Bridges of Love” as Alexa, a woman so obsessed in her love for Paulo Avelino. For the first time in her career, she agreed to do a love scene. “Sobrang kinabahan ako kasi ang tagal ko na sa industriya, pero ngayon ko lang ginawa ito,” she says. “Kaya pala kinailangang mag-rest ako ng one year kasi my last soap was ‘Got to Believe’ pa, kasi ganitong project ang isusunod ko. Kung kailan pa naman may dalawa na akong anak, saka ko nag-daring.”

Earlier headlines of column items about her say: “Carmina, nakipaglaplapan, nakipaglampungan kay Paulo Avelino.” “Sobra naman. Hindi naman ganun kagrabe. TV ito, ano? Hanggang smack lang. Pero for someone who hasn’t done anything like it ever before, kakaiba ito. Meron ding scene na binubugbog ako ni Lorenzo Mara, who plays my abusive husband. Yun, totoo. Nasaktan talaga ako. Nung makita ko kung gaano siya ka-intense, natakot na ako. Kaya yung pinakita ko roong takot na takot ako, di na ako uma-acting. Sobrang takot na talaga ako. Yung mga aray ko, totoo yun. And this is why na-in love ako kay Paulo, kasi he saved me from being emotionally and physically abused. Ibinigay ko sa kanya ang lahat, akala ko, love niya talaga ako. E, nakilala niya si Maja Salvador.”

Does she have to ask her husband Zoren Legaspi’s permission to do intimate scenes with Paulo? “Busy siya sa ‘Forevermore’,” she laughs. “No need to make paalam, wala kaming ganon kasi pareho kaming artista at alam naman niya, maging ng mga anak namin na, oo, trabaho lang ito but I know my limitations. Sa mga anak ko naman, huwag na lang nila panoorin, but they know na it’s part of my work. I’m very ho­nest naman with my kids and I’m sure they will understand, pero ‘di na nila kailangang panoorin pa. But I’m very thankful because ako ‘yung kinuha nila to portray Alexa, so feeling bagets ako kasi this time, hindi another mother role ang ginagampanan ko. Si Paulo naman, napakamagalang. Ate ang tawag sa’kin, pinupupo ako, humihingi pa ng permiso kung puede niya kong hawakan sa eksena.”