Dolly de Leon. Picture: Juan Leo and Kurt Jeremy through Instagram/@dollyedeleon
Whereas Dolly de Leon discovered the candy spot between performing in movie, tv, and theater, she initially struggled with portraying feelings and “feeling the center” of characters by means of these performing varieties.
De Leon is about to return to theater within the Manila run of the play “Request sa Radyo,” a Filipino adaptation of German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz’s masterpiece “Wunschkonzert/Request Programme.” She’s going to tackle the lead position which shall be alternated between herself and award-winning theater actress Lea Salonga.
However whereas de Leon took a theater arts diploma on the College of the Philippines, she admitted that she had a tough time separating the portrayal of assorted feelings in theater, movie, and tv sooner or later in her profession.
“My private expertise was that it’s an enormous battle for me transitioning to theater from movie and tv. Noong first time kong mag-film and TV, ang laki-laki ng performing ko so medyo nakakahiya (When it was my first time doing movie and TV, I went massive with my performing which was embarrassing),” she stated on the play’s masterclass in Makati.
“However now I kinda received the groove of it already, which is to carry again and belief your eyes to do the job. Additionally, to belief no matter you’re feeling inside will come out. However with theater, it’s very exterior however on the similar time, it’s important to make it come out,” she continued.
Regardless of this, de Leon stated she would all the time be captivated with theater, because it banks on an actor’s capability to keep up their “momentum” whereas bringing such feelings to life. “With movie, it’s important to really feel it after which the cameras will choose it up. It’s a completely completely different course of.”
“However that’s why I like theater a lot,” she continued. “There’s momentum that you simply construct once you’re doing a play. You’re in a position to actually really feel the center of what your characters are going by means of.”
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The actress additionally identified that performing in theater permits her to be totally “immersed” in her character, and whereas she may errors alongside the best way, it’s about “winging it” till the ultimate curtain name.
“In movie, it doesn’t need to run in chronological order. You don’t know the place you got here from and it’s exhausting to maintain the power and construct the momentum,” she stated. “With performs, it’s actually completely different. You’re actually immersed and also you’re there one hundred percent. Wala kang alternative. Kung magkakamali ka, magkakamali ka (In the event you’re incorrect, you’re incorrect). And it’s important to wing it even for those who made a mistake.”
In de Leon and Salonga’s case, they might solely depend on themselves all through “Request sa Radyo’s” run since they’re the only characters of its storyline. Based mostly on the unique materials, it facilities round a middle-aged girl who does her day-to-day routines in silence, in a bid to painting isolation and loneliness.
“You solely have your self and your co-actor. On this case, wala kaming co-actor (we don’t have a co-actor) so we solely have ourselves to depend on. If ever, kasama lang namin ni Lea ang (Lea and I are solely accompanied by) lighting and sound, and nobody else. It’s very thrilling. I’ve by no means performed something like that,” she stated.
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“Request Sa Radyo” is amongst de Leon’s upcoming actions lined up. She is about to star within the movie “Jackpot!” and the sequence “Severino: The First Serial Killer” and season two of “9 Good Strangers.”
The Bobby Garcia-helmed play will run from October 10 to twenty on the Samsung Performing Arts Theater.
