Mark Herras and Jennylyn Mercado Still in love with each other
The media has been saying for months that the fabled Mark Herras-Jennylyn Mercado love team is now just a memory. But if seeing is believing, fans of Herras and Mercado may just have reason to rejoice, especially after they’ve seen Regal Entertainment’s passionate new romantic drama Blue Moon.
Mark Herras is Manuel, a shy young man who finds himself falling in love with two barrio lasses (both named Corazon) during the early ’40s: there’s the aggressive Corazon played by Pauleen Luna, and the more subdued Corazon, played by Jennylyn Mercado. Both women eventually disappear from Manuel’s life, and the movie continues the story during the present day, when an aging Manuel (played in contemporary scenes by Eddie Garcia) is told that he only has a few months left to live. The dying Manuel then decides to look for Corazon. But which Corazon is his heart searching for?
Filmed during the weeks when Herras and Mercado were supposedly having more than just the usual lovers’ quarrels, what Blue Moon will show fans is a young couple whose feelings for one another are not a matter of “acting,” but of genuine fondness. In a case of life imitating art, Blue Moon director Joel Lamangan was even told by staff members that one reason Jennylyn was upset with Mark is that he was courting Pauleen Luna, his other love interest in the film!
Lamangan, recalls that he was aware that Mark and Jennylyn were having relationship problems while they were shooting their passionate scenes for the movie. It was an ironic twist of fate which worried him, but one which surprisingly didn’t pose any problems for the movie.
“When you see Blue Moon, you won’t see anything but love between Mark and Jennylyn in their sequences together,” states Lamangan, “There’s one scene where they have a very passionate kiss, and you could feel the passion and the chemistry. Whether you were there on the set or if you’re watching it on the screen, you can feel that they still care for one another. It’s in how Mark looked at Jennylyn, and how she held his face in her hands. It was electric.”
Blue Moon’s executive producer Mother Lily Monteverde also isn’t ready to write off the love team she launched with such spectacular success in movies like So…Happy Together and Say That You Love Me just yet. She says, “Moviegoers haven’t seen the last of Jennylyn and Mark where Regal Films is concerned. As long as they keep making the audience feel everything wonderful about being in love on the silver screen, there will be movies for them. Like direk Joel Lamangan, I agree that there are still sparks between them. It’s obvious in how they relate to each other on and off screen.”
In addition to Mark and Jen, Blue Moon’s star-studded cast also includes Eddie Garcia, Christopher de Leon, Dennis Trillo, Pauleen Luna, Polo Ravales, RJ Rosales, Reggie Curley, Tin Tin Arnaldo, and Boots Anson-Roa. Blue Moon is produced by Roselle Monteverde-Teo and executive produced by Lily Yu Monteverde for Regal Entertainment Inc.
Mark Herras is Manuel, a shy young man who finds himself falling in love with two barrio lasses (both named Corazon) during the early ’40s: there’s the aggressive Corazon played by Pauleen Luna, and the more subdued Corazon, played by Jennylyn Mercado. Both women eventually disappear from Manuel’s life, and the movie continues the story during the present day, when an aging Manuel (played in contemporary scenes by Eddie Garcia) is told that he only has a few months left to live. The dying Manuel then decides to look for Corazon. But which Corazon is his heart searching for?
Filmed during the weeks when Herras and Mercado were supposedly having more than just the usual lovers’ quarrels, what Blue Moon will show fans is a young couple whose feelings for one another are not a matter of “acting,” but of genuine fondness. In a case of life imitating art, Blue Moon director Joel Lamangan was even told by staff members that one reason Jennylyn was upset with Mark is that he was courting Pauleen Luna, his other love interest in the film!
Lamangan, recalls that he was aware that Mark and Jennylyn were having relationship problems while they were shooting their passionate scenes for the movie. It was an ironic twist of fate which worried him, but one which surprisingly didn’t pose any problems for the movie.
“When you see Blue Moon, you won’t see anything but love between Mark and Jennylyn in their sequences together,” states Lamangan, “There’s one scene where they have a very passionate kiss, and you could feel the passion and the chemistry. Whether you were there on the set or if you’re watching it on the screen, you can feel that they still care for one another. It’s in how Mark looked at Jennylyn, and how she held his face in her hands. It was electric.”
Blue Moon’s executive producer Mother Lily Monteverde also isn’t ready to write off the love team she launched with such spectacular success in movies like So…Happy Together and Say That You Love Me just yet. She says, “Moviegoers haven’t seen the last of Jennylyn and Mark where Regal Films is concerned. As long as they keep making the audience feel everything wonderful about being in love on the silver screen, there will be movies for them. Like direk Joel Lamangan, I agree that there are still sparks between them. It’s obvious in how they relate to each other on and off screen.”
In addition to Mark and Jen, Blue Moon’s star-studded cast also includes Eddie Garcia, Christopher de Leon, Dennis Trillo, Pauleen Luna, Polo Ravales, RJ Rosales, Reggie Curley, Tin Tin Arnaldo, and Boots Anson-Roa. Blue Moon is produced by Roselle Monteverde-Teo and executive produced by Lily Yu Monteverde for Regal Entertainment Inc.
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