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Gil Cuerva among the Kapuso artists that top NYC acting coach has taken under his wing


One of New York’s best acting teachers on Tuesday started a three-day acting workshop for 46 Kapuso stars.

Anthony Vincent Bova arrived in the Philippines on Monday to introduce the “Eric Morris System” to GMA Network’s talents. The high-precision acting method will require actors to come face to face with inner fears and weaknesses through "deep immersion" activities twelve hours a day.

“What happens in three days? You don’t develop an actor in three days, but what you can do in three days is have the emotional and psychological transformation and start the journey,” Bova said in the activity’s Monday the press conference.

Young Kapuso actors Gil Cuerva, Joyce Ching, and Mikee Quintos were revealed as three of the 46 participants to delve further into the ways of realistic acting.

 

 

Bova said he was honored to take some of the Philippines’ biggest stars under his wing.

"The Filipinos, they’re very raw, which is the biggest complement I can give,” Bova told GMA News Online.

"Because you dont wanna be protected and be an artist, you wanna show the world who and what you are. The way for you to do that is to take the barriers away and this community, [Filipino actors] seem to do that quite a bit, so thats what makes my job a lot easier."

The former actor and Broadway star vowed to discipline his trainees in his own way, as he had in over 30 years of teaching.

“What I say to my actors, ‘So, wat do you wanna do with your career', and they say 'oh, I wanna be a Hollywood star, I wanna be a broadway’…Alright. 'In other words, you want a high level of fulfillment as an artist, yes? Then hold yourself to that standard, and that entails being highly disciplined” Bova said.

“So if you put in a fuzzy at best focus, expect a fuzzy at best career…I try to let them know tat that is exactly what they can expect in their career and that I think is what’s meaningful,”

GMA’s rookie actor-turned-primetime heartthrob Gil Cuerva said he planned to absorb the training coming his way as a sponge would.

 

 

"Hes a very experienced respected well known instructor of the [Eric Morris] method, you know. If he needs to be strict, if he needs to discipline me, okay,” Cuerva said.

"I have full trust in him the same way GMA has full trust in him. The way he will instruct us ang help us become better actors,” he added.

The former model who just finished his first acting gig in "My Love From the Star” revealed that a wide range of selected participants who would be joining him.

"Nakita ko kasi 'yung list, yung iba may experience na rin. It’s for all ages, learning never stops po,” Cuerva said.

“To have somebody like Anthony come over from New York, our participants, our scholars should be very very grateful for this opportunity, it’s something that does not happen all the time, so I hope they’ll take advantage and make the most out of this experience,” GMA’s Senior Vice President for Entertainment TV Lilybeth Rasonable told GMA News Online.

Bova brought with him newspaper clippings from 1987, when his mentor Eric Morris made headlines in holding a somewhat similar three-day acting workshop in the Philippines in August 1987, which was almost exactly 30 years ago.


The performing arts revolutionary had entrusted his famed method to Bova for more than twenty years.

"One of the biggest traps actors in general fall into in this age of naturalism as an artist is they act natural. It’s still acting. They act natural as opposed to being natural,” Bova said in an earlier release.

"When I told him I was coming here, he said Laurice! Oh, and Johnny Delgado, I miss them so much!” he added, quoting Morris.

Morris and Bova's special regard for the pinoy talent rooted experience with today’s gold-plated actors and filmmakers in the Philippines, namely Laurice Guillen, Johnny Delgado, Michael de Mesa and Leo Martinez, who is currently director of the Film Academy of the Philippines.

Eric Morris wrote a book about consequently teaching acting in the Philippines entitled "The Diary of a Professional Experiencer" after encountering Guillen who was on a US Theater tour in the 1980s.

Bova is artistic director to the Bova Actors Workshop and the New York based, Ionica Theater.

With GMA Artist Center and Laurice Guillen Actors Studio, Bova promised to help achieve a higher standard for the actors’ performance in the Philippines. — Magaret Claire Layug/LA, GMA News

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