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Filipina actress Jaclyn Jose poses
after she was awarded with the Best Actress prize during a photocall at 69th
Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 22, 2016. AFP
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The portrayal of a drug-dealing mother
in Manila slums is what made Jaclyn Jose the first Filipina to win the Best
Actress award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
The veteran actress played as a
struggling mother forced to sell drugs in order to eke out a living but ends up
getting caught in a web of police corruption in the 2016 movie Ma’Rosa.
The actress described the film as “how
Filipino families coped and survived, in spite of poverty”. Speaking the awards
ceremony tearful said she did not expect to win. And like any other Filipino
mother, the first person whom she looked for when the award was announced was
her daughter, costar Andi Eigenmann.
But her win is such an irony as her
role strikes close to home, coincidentally after the overwhelming win of Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte as president, who has a rigid program of fighting crime and
brutal stance on drug dealers.
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Incoming Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte is famous for his tough stand on drugs and criminals - prominent themes
in the 2016 film
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Though the film was shot before
Duterte declared his intentions of running for president, this win just proves
how strong of an issue this is for the country.
Jose was already a huge start in the
Philippines and according to her, the biggest challenge for the movie is not to
act especially since most of her usual characters were loud and campy.
Mendoza also revealed that “Ma’Rosa
was based on a true story and his personal experience with a main character of
the film four years ago, as said at the news conference prior to the award
ceremony. “As an artist, as a filmmaker, you have to share it with the rest of
the world for them to realize and also for them to think about it, that such
situation should not happen,”
As much as this movie already gave
enough impact, the jury also fought for it, defending Jose during the press con
from a reporter who echoed some critics’ comments that her role was too short
to win best actress.
At least two jurors she bumped into at
the Palais are “The Hunger Games” star Donald Sutherland and “Hannibal” actor
Mads Mikkelsen, who both have said so much about her. “They said they wanted me
to win,” she said.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer BBC
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