00:00 My favorite scene with Catherine would have to be the scene that we did we took in the car
00:06 It's actually in the opening of the trailer
00:08 Kathy goes against the usual stepsister stereotype and that she's actually quite sweet and supportive of her sister
00:17 How did you and Catherine Newton build that camaraderie and what was your favorite moment to film together?
00:22 so
00:24 For Catherine and I we didn't have that many days before we actually started filming to actually build up our
00:31 Relationship or anything so we kind of just had to throw ourselves into the whole project, but it was actually very easy
00:38 I feel like her and I get along very well like our personalities are such a good match
00:43 I think we just have really natural chemistry with each other
00:47 It also helps that we're the same age and that we are interested in a lot of the same things
00:51 I would say one thing that we mainly bonded over in the beginning was our love for black pink
00:56 I didn't know that at the time that she was obsessed with black pink
01:00 But she she told me that she like knows all their songs even knows their dance steps
01:04 So I have a bunch of videos that we took of us like dancing to black pink and just listening to kpop
01:10 my favorite scene with
01:12 Catherine would have to be the scene that we did we took in the car
01:17 It's actually in the opening of the trailer that scene we filmed late at night
01:21 Because like how it works in America is we only have 12 hours a day to film
01:26 And so if they have night sequences that they need to film we get called very late at night
01:31 So my call time at the time was 10 p.m. And we we filmed that until like 6 a.m.
01:37 In the morning so me and her were really struggling to stay up all night because I haven't been you know
01:42 I haven't been taping in a while and
01:45 Throughout the whole week we were filming early in the morning and we would finish early in the day
01:49 And so we were just hyping each other up the whole time trying to keep ourselves awake
01:53 We were in the car while waiting for setup like just rapping because she also loves like super rap music
02:00 Which I also enjoy so we were hyping each other up singing rap songs just filming tik-toks and everything
02:08 So I think that's the most memorable and most fun I had with her on the set
02:12 So Taffy has actually a lot of memorable one-liners in the show
02:15 How did you practice your comedic timing and delivery and were any of those ad-lib?
02:19 I was actually very nervous about that because
02:22 Zelda did tell me that my character has to be like not trying to be funny, but she just is naturally funny and
02:29 For me, I think comedy is one of the hardest genres because it's easy to make people cry
02:35 I feel like it's easy to scare people, but it's really hard to make someone laugh and
02:41 I'm not very confident in my comedic timing or anything
02:44 So I really relied on the help of our director Zelda to kind of guide me through
02:49 The amount of like comedy that I put in a lot of my one-liners
02:53 She would kind of guide me on
02:55 When to drop the line and kind of how to drop the line and then she would also give me a few takes where I could
03:01 Completely experiment with how I wanted to deliver it
03:04 So it was a nice combination of me and her just like trying to find the right pockets
03:10 Taffy might seem like she has the perfect life as the popular cheerleader
03:14 But she actually does have a vulnerable side that you get to show as well
03:17 So also spoiler alert when she's revealed to have a love life. She does suffer for it
03:21 Yeah as an actor
03:23 How do you feel or what type of scene was the most difficult for you to fill the comedy?
03:27 The vulnerability or drama the romance or the horror aspect of it when I try to remember everything that we did during filming
03:34 The scene that I had the hardest time with was the first scene I ever took in the whole movie
03:40 Which actually that scene is in the trailer. It's like she could even be in beauty pageants
03:45 She could probably even do pageants if she had congeniality
03:49 So that was my first scene and I was just very nervous because it was my first day working with everybody
03:56 I honestly wasn't very comfortable with my English at the time too because
04:00 People had noticed that I had a bit of a Filipino accent and I was trying my best to
04:06 Have more of an 80s English accent. So I was very self-conscious about it the whole time
04:11 There are actually quite a lot of comedic moments in the film
04:14 Which one in particular caused you to break character most and why?
04:18 I think the only time I ever broke character on that whole set was in the scene that
04:24 Catherine Cole and
04:26 Henry are with me in that scene. It's actually the
04:32 Climax of the whole movie and it was just so funny because Catherine was actually so funny
04:37 She kept on breaking character first and forcing like not forcing but because she would break out of character
04:43 We would all just break out into laughter because of her
04:45 Even though it was the climax of the film the director and everybody on the set just made it feel
04:52 Like it was just any other fun scene that we were all filming together
04:55 And I think it helped that like all four of us like we're all in the same age range. We were all together
05:01 So we were just having fun
05:03 What particular scene for you was the most memorable to film whether it was because of a certain character or because of an emotional aspect?
05:10 Involved in the scene again going back to that scene where me Henry Cole and Catherine were all together
05:16 I think that was the most fun
05:18 And the most difficult because there was a lot of different elements of the scene that had to have perfect timing the comedy the drama
05:27 The action like it was all four genres in one in that particular scene
05:33 but also there was like elements of
05:36 Cole's character having to like chop something
05:40 And then I had to like scream at the top of my lungs
05:43 So it was like chaos happening on the set
05:47 But it was so much fun and it was so memorable because all of us had really
05:51 Had so much fun and we weren't really pressured even though it was a big scene
05:55 Now that you've made your Hollywood debut, what is next for you in terms of your career plans?
06:00 Is there a movie or a TV series that you'd particularly like to do or an actor you'd like to collaborate with right now?
06:06 Because I just finished watching Narcos. I would say an actor that I really want to work with is Pedro Pascal
06:12 I think he's so charming and such a great actor
06:15 I also really like James McAvoy who is professor X and X-Men. I also think he's just one of the best actors in the world
06:23 He's amazing at what he does. From the actresses. I love Zendaya
06:26 I love Angelina Jolie and if there was any project that I would like to be in
06:32 Honestly, like I dream of being in Euphoria sometimes because I really like I just I really admire Zendaya as a person and I know
06:40 That she co-produced that series as well
06:43 So I would love to learn from her and I would love to be in
06:47 Something like The Last of Us because I really love zombie films and I love action thrillers
06:53 Hey Cosmo girls
06:54 This is Liza Soberano and I would like to invite all of you guys to watch my upcoming film Lisa Frankenstein
07:00 Coming out in theaters nationwide this February 7. Thank you so much Cosmopolitan Philippines
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