REGAL ENTERTAINMENT produced the big hit BL (boys love) series, “Ben X Jim” with Jerome Ponce and Teejay Marquez that even had a sequel.
They now come up with a new BL series with a new batch of fresh faces, “The Day I Loved You”, directed by Easy Ferrer who also did “Ben X Jim”.
It’s topbilled by Tommy Alejandrino, who won last year’s Cinemalaya Filmfest best actor award for “The Baseball Player”, where he played Amir, the title roler who’s a young Muslim teenager caught in the war in Mindanao.
Like Elijah Canlas, he studied at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
Elijah was one year ahead of him. He started as a theater actor in school then he did the acclaimed play “Nay, May Dala Akong Pansit”, at the CCP.
He has also finished two other films for Director Adolf Alix, “Pieta” and “Acetylene Love” and for Jay Altarejos, he did “Finding Daddy Blake”, which is also about boys love.
He is now shooting the historical film, “Gomburza”, produced by Ateneo’s Jesuit Communications.
In "The Day I Loved You", he plays Nikko, who experiences first love with his classmate.
As his partner, they imported Asian heartthrob Raynold Tan from Singapore as Eli.
His shows are hits in Viu Singapore and Mediacorp Netowork.
He also has millions of followers on Tiktok where he’s known as @raytyr.
He’s likewise majoring in psychology at the National University of Singapore.
Also introduced in the show as the third wheel in their relationship is Rabin Angeles as Justin.
The other newcomers who are part of the talented young cast are Mika Reins (who shone in “Mano Po 3, The Flower Sisters”), Lorraine Wong, Kaleb Ong, Lionel Navidad and Yohance Buie.
Don’t miss the super kilig romance of two young people as they experience their first holding hands, their first kiss and the magic of first love.
This starts streaming on Regal Entertainment’s youtube channel starting this Wednesday, April 26.
