Russian model, influencer, and actress Anastasiia Dymchenko shares her honest answer about what it was like working with Filipinos in the movie "Nuclear Winter," produced and led by Cebuano engineer and businessman Ron Chan.
The action-thriller, featuring A.I. assistance, will be shown first in the Philippines on September 10, 2025, and will be screened next in the U.S. and Dubai.
Get to know more about the stars of "Nuclear Winter," Anastasiia and Ron, in this exclusive PEP Spotlight interview.
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The action-thriller, featuring A.I. assistance, will be shown first in the Philippines on September 10, 2025, and will be screened next in the U.S. and Dubai.
Get to know more about the stars of "Nuclear Winter," Anastasiia and Ron, in this exclusive PEP Spotlight interview.
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00:00can you tell us about your favorite scene or behind the scene and what makes this special
00:05or even a funny moment together i remember one funny moment um so so i had to fake punch a guy
00:14and he had to dodge but something happened and he didn't touch in the right moment and just
00:22my hand is just landed on his jaw
00:36hi pepsters this is nico and this is your pep crew jc and you're tuned in on pep spotlight today we're
00:45thrilled to be joined by the lead stars of the highly anticipated john show nuclear winter let's
00:51give a warm welcome to ron chan and anastasia dimchenko hi hello let's give this time for
01:02ron and anastasia to maybe say a few words or maybe messages to our pep viewers please go ahead
01:10oh okay me too okay all right so uh please watch our movie uh john show nuclear winter so it will
01:17it will be shown uh in the philippines uh on september 10 so it's like a few weeks uh
01:25two weeks actually yeah two weeks from now yeah
01:31philippines come to see our movie from 10th september in all theaters across philippines see you there
01:40yes thank you so much we're excited to see your movie and it's only it's only like two weeks left
01:49right that's right how are you guys feel how are you guys feeling let's start with maybe anastasia first
01:58right yeah okay um i'm very much excited it's my first international project and especially first role
02:08where i play and action and play secret spy agents and um yeah for september we have a big premiere in
02:18manila and i just can't wait to see that how about you ron since you're also the person behind the movie
02:26yeah of course excited thrilled um hopefully you know um this will be a successful one um we are not
02:36expecting actually too much but uh this this is you know for us uh it's it's a good one so um we are we
02:46are actually um trying to like um share uh this story because it's relevant right now and um hopefully
02:57uh people will you know will uh watch this movie yeah and speaking of johnshaw nuclear winter can you
03:05guys tell us what is it all about yeah so uh anesthesia you want to okay um yeah yeah all right yeah go
03:16yeah so this actually an action thriller where a secret group is trying to manipulate government
03:24leaders from the u.s uh to trigger to start a nuclear war so it's a kind of like global tension between
03:32the russian north korea iran and uh the u.s it's an exciting action film
03:42how about your characters what can what can we know about your characters without maybe spoiling anything
03:48yeah me i'm playing the secret service agent and i try to manipulate government leaders from the
03:56a.s to start the nuclear war i'm very cold manipulating uh calculated so she's a very powerful
04:08director in the story for ron yeah so i'm a government contractor um it's i'm i'm
04:18also you know previously an agent and then i'm helping the government uh solve prices especially
04:25this one um the um conflict between russia and other countries against the u.s and its allies yeah
04:35how would you say your characters are maybe like uh does your characters reflect your own personalities
04:44in a way uh i can say about my character she's in some way she's very far from me because she's very cold
04:57and uh she's very yeah cold-blooded and manipulative but from the other side she's a very strong
05:08character feminine character in a man's world and um maybe that part is kind side with me yeah
05:19i was just um wondering um anastasia you have like a russian background right right and ron are you
05:27like um what's your an american or no uh filipino filipino yes yes russian and filipino so i'm just
05:40wondering how did you guys build up chemistry with that different culture yeah you know like we have been
05:50exposed to uh here in the uae you know other countries that we deal with different nationalities
05:57different cultures different people so uh we know how to deal with you know uh different cultures already
06:04so that's uh not new to us and uh especially we are very open because of our experience here
06:10uh that we respect uh the culture of everyone so that's why uh it's it's not uh you know difficult
06:17for us we have many different actors yeah it's um in our movie we have uh many filipino actors of course
06:30and uh we have uh people from egypt uh actors people from lebanon yes i remember from
06:40pakistan too so this is like an international cast there and yeah it's very funny thanks to our
06:48daniel galli he's our director and ron chan they i think they made our whole uh set um feel like a
06:58family feel like a real team yeah okay and just a follow-up question for you anastasia um you've
07:06mentioned that you've been working with different filipinos already so how does it feel what what was
07:13it like working with filipinos um i think they're one of the kindest and warmest people i ever met in
07:24my life and uh what i can say they welcome you like a family when i even came to manila they made me like
07:32i'm part of their family and they're the people with the big hearts yeah wow that's so sweet thank
07:41you so much now um here's a question for ron ron um they were actually hailing you as a potential
07:49breakout star for this movie how does this make you feel and do you feel any pressure about it
07:57for these high expectations um i don't have you know too much expectation so uh there's no pressure
08:04uh it's just a matter of you know it's fun uh um i love doing it you know so it's just uh the interest
08:12um the you know our uh vision to um work on this project whatever the outcome will be you know
08:21regardless of what will happen uh and we will continue to do that as long as you know we have
08:28the resources to do that so so it's just a matter of you know having fun you know i'd like to go back
08:35long about your uh characters uh you mentioned uh building chemistry was kind of easy since uh the
08:43cast were all like family but what was the most challenging part of portraying your characters
08:49first anastasia first for me it was um the kind of that i had to learn how to do some stands some
09:01martial arts stage combat that i've never done in my life yes and i think that was the most challenging
09:08part yes that's uh ron chen he actually he helped me i think he's a good uh uh in choreography in the
09:17stage combat and uh he showed me how to do many stunts and kicks and punches yes
09:27did you guys do uh all your stunts your own on your own like or did you guys have like
09:34stuntmen or stunt doubles to help you with your characters uh yeah we we did it uh you know
09:40everything uh on our own yeah we don't we don't have too much uh risky or dangerous stance so we we
09:47keep it you know as safe as possible and uh we are we we did the shooting only in on green screen
09:55so it's not really a big a very big room so it's just enough you know for us to move you'd like to see
10:02those action and all yeah yeah so anastasia already mentioned about working with the director danny uh
10:14can you guys share like how was your experience working with him was his like was he like a strict
10:20director or did he did he give you so many many uh like tips on how to do your roles or how to tackle
10:27the roles in the film yeah i think danny he helped a lot he's very focused and he's very creative
10:36and he sees like a big picture and for me he helped me a lot in some things that i didn't understand
10:44what to do how to act here and he managed me softly you know but also he gave me like
10:51um um he gave me he trusted me sometimes i wanted to try something on my own so he gave me a freedom
11:00to try it he's very open to suggestions yes how about ron yeah well direct danny you know um this is
11:11our first project that we we are we uh we have been you know doing so um it's of course uh very open you
11:20know and uh we always talk about how to do things especially um we have different uh you know things
11:28that um we are like exposed to he has the experience in terms of filmmaking i don't have any although i
11:37wrote the story so sometimes you know in terms of imagination i'm imagining the uh the scene in my
11:44mind because i i wrote the story so we share how to um you know translate that into something that
11:51people can see in in the film yeah okay um i just i'm just wondering because for every movie i know
12:01that you have like this special or favorite behind the scene or favorite scene together or maybe um your
12:09own favorite scene um can you tell us about your favorite scene or behind the scene and what makes
12:16this special or even a funny moment together can we start with anastasia yes uh i remember one funny
12:25moment um so so i had to fake punch a guy and uh he had to dodge but something happened and he didn't
12:36dodge in the right moment and just my hand is just landed on his jaw and it was such like a loud sound
12:45and of course i gave like thousands of my excuses and we laughed afterwards but it was so awkward and
12:54um actually the danny director he told that maybe we can use this scene as uh his reaction to this because
13:02uh it was uh it was so authentic you know when i punched him and uh but oh my god i felt so awkward
13:09and uh you know yeah that was so it was was the guy okay was it a full blow no no no uh it was like a
13:23full blow and really really strong and yeah uh guy yes he he felt okay yes it's i think it hurts a little bit but
13:32uh i felt so sorry yes well that happens and i wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that
13:42much no
13:47how about you ron uh well yeah i have uh i had fun with uh of course uh with the team you know uh i'm i'm not
13:57always i was not always uh in the set uh because i i allowed them to you know do their part and and so
14:04on so i only go there when i'm needed because i have a lot of other things to do so uh yeah but when
14:10i'm there you know uh we had fun and then especially the other guys they are really uh committed into
14:18you know doing uh stuff so yeah uh it's it's really uh great so my next question is maybe this
14:26is for ron what led you or what made you decide to pursue this film yeah well uh i love movies so
14:36that's why you know i was thinking you know uh this is one uh opportunity that uh we have we can we can
14:42uh push through you know and uh also uh i'm i'm thinking of uh helping our community our rich
14:51wind dev community so later on at least because we have some students who are part of this movie
14:57uh we we have some parents also who are part of the movie and because before we started we shared this
15:04to our community to our parents to our students who may be willing to to join so some of them join
15:12and uh you know although this is the first time that they did uh filmmaking as well so you know it
15:20was it's really you know like uh fun because uh we we were able to to uh you know like um agree on
15:30some things although we do not have didn't have experience uh before uh through the guidance of of
15:36course the experience of direct danny um uh serpins who is uh doing our you know visual effects and
15:43his experience in uh you know doing camera angles you know uh and and so on scenes so we were able to
15:51to uh you know uh complete complete this movie yeah curious question for ron since when did you film the
16:00movie was it last year no that we we started actually in march although i was in singapore that
16:07time so but we were we were just uh exploring about uh what options because i was thinking before okay
16:14we will use ai uh because we have uh you know it's it's difficult to get people um we of course we will
16:21we'll contact some people if they are interested and others the resources uh that we need um we still do
16:29not know where we can find them and so on so we started small uh and then we experimented in terms
16:35of uh the tools that we will be using uh so that we can do it faster and especially we are we are you
16:42know planning well that time we were planning to do it on green screen so we already know the limitations
16:48that uh we could uh you know um will be we would be uh doing um going through so that's why um
16:56um doing some experimentations if this can be done if not or something like that looking for options
17:04and um well we we did uh solve some problems and some you know uh we had to stop uh the plan and then
17:14change into something that we can we you know we could do and uh at the end of the day uh we were able
17:21to finish uh you know the movie um of course we learned a lot and uh we will be using you know
17:27those uh lessons learned in our next project so we will keep on improving yeah yeah sounds like
17:35another question for ron since you mentioned it was just last march you guys worked on this film
17:42um but was the current situation global situation like affected or was a fact was it a factor why you
17:51chose the theme of the film since well that's one yeah yeah that's one of the reasons uh because we
17:59we already you know had well i finished like around three uh stories already uh we decided to
18:06uh do the uh the uh first story that i wrote and then we uh because that's for valentine's day and
18:17uh we we thought that you know we we couldn't uh do that on time so we decided to uh go for this one
18:24uh there there's another one that we have it's like uh fantasy you know um but again that's that's
18:31difficult one because there's a lot of uh complicated characters and environments that we
18:36have you know we have to go through so and uh this is you know like this movie is uh the story is
18:43relevant also um especially what's happening right now so uh i think uh that's why you know we decided
18:50okay we will go for this because this is easier than you know the other ones yeah i see sounds like
18:58you've really went through a lot just to finish this film right but it feels very rewarding
19:04right after you know completing this and everything okay so um you've mentioned ron that this is your
19:11first time i was wondering what's your career like before doing this and how did you get into acting
19:21um okay so well um i'm from a chemical engineering background okay so from cebu and then uh i uh of
19:34course i i worked before and then i opened my business so i'm running a school business an it business
19:42uh project management business you know um different types of businesses and then i decided to open this
19:49one uh the entertainment business movies and others you know so that uh of course because this is one
19:56of the the areas that i have i i like so that's why uh we push this so basically like in the last uh
20:05six years i've been doing business a lot so um when was the moment when you feel like okay i wanted to
20:14pursue acting um when we decided to to do this movie because like i was thinking uh because of the
20:22limited resources uh i have to be the main character because uh if there's no other uh i mean there are
20:30no other resources that we can get uh i'll i'll always be there because this is my project right so
20:36uh in that case um i can find a way to solve you know this problem if uh if something happens so
20:44that's why i decided to do it myself so so that uh really pushed me to uh you know to do the acting
20:52yeah thank you so much ron now i'd like to ask anastasia i'd like to ask anastasia the same question
21:00can you tell us a little bit background of yourself how you got into acting i started as a model
21:10i've been working in china and in italy for quite many years and then i think when i was in milan in
21:17italy i find out my life my love my love into acting and i've got some roles in music video clips
21:29in some advertising campaigns and from there i decided to study acting i went to london and i took
21:39acting course then from there my love for acting started and came from hobby to the real work so
21:48nowadays it's my main occupation i saw your website i did some research
21:56and i'm yes i saw your modeling portfolio i was so surprised that you got to work with a lot of
22:04brands what was it like to you what was the experience like working as a model
22:10oh it was amazing yes i worked with many brands like max mara kevin klein roberto cavalli and
22:19um i did some fashion shows uh campaigns and at that time it was amazing yes but then i realized that
22:29i have something inside within me that i want to show to people that i have a lot inside that i can
22:35show into into modeling but i can show it in the acting yes if you would choose between acting and modeling
22:46which one would you pick well yes i already picked acting yes and that's my main occupation i do sometimes
22:57modeling for some brands still in dubai in europe they still ask me to model for them but um that's more
23:06like a hobby yes but i could do this both together it's kind of goes together yeah having um
23:15a russian background or nationality do you think it was an advantage or disadvantage doing this role in
23:24this movie i think it was advantage yes i think it kind of suits me and i actually i always wanted to
23:37play some action role because uh before i was playing like a mother or some wife or sometimes they give me
23:50like scandalous woman roles but i never never tried the like action role so i think for me it suits me and it
24:01sees my character and i and i could really shows my showed my talents into this role how can i transform from
24:11being like uh kind of like i don't know sometimes like i'm cute in the role sometimes i'm positive and
24:20sometimes in this role i can be really cold and manipulating and yeah coming from what anastasia said what
24:30are your dream roles oh my dream roles wow i haven't thought about it um i actually would like to play
24:42more action roles i really like that i never thought i would like it but um yeah i think i would like to
24:51play more of the action roles yes maybe in parts of you yeah in the future so
25:00yeah or a superhero maybe yes superhero yes oh actually maybe one of the roles i would love to play
25:09um i really admire marilyn monroe and angeline jolly is her movies yes i would like to play some
25:17um some feminine roles strong character yeah let's see where life goes
25:26like lara croft angelina jody absolutely yes how about see sirron well yeah action you know uh
25:36action roles i believe that uh easier to do than you know the crying and so so yeah i think uh you know
25:45because uh i i have experience in terms of sports i mean uh martial arts and so on so i i think it's
25:51easier for me sir ron question after this one do you have any um next project or what what's the next
26:00project that you'd like to tackle next yeah we have many in the pipeline so um we already have the part
26:07two you know of uh the part two of uh movie of this one uh because this is again uh as i mentioned
26:13already the uh this is a um like a franchise john show so there's already a part two and then we have
26:20another uh movie fantasy so that's uh also coming uh we already i already uh like uh finished like i think
26:29uh two or three uh stories uh for that uh i i we have uh one comedy i already have the story as well
26:37and then um the first one the first movie that i wrote so that's uh like action and uh love story
26:44so that's uh those are actually waiting so after this then we will be you know starting those how are
26:50you managing your time sir ron champion you're balancing your work as an engineer still right
26:56uh not anymore so i'm doing business yeah so well it's it's uh for now especially that we are doing
27:05this project is it's quite hectic but there are lots of people who are helping me especially you know
27:12derek danny for example sir beans and the other guys who are assigned to their respective uh you know
27:19uh job positions and so on so so they're doing uh you know uh their part so i'm just overseeing uh you
27:28know whatever i can so so that's uh yeah that's that's fine is it is the film throwing the other
27:37maybe parts of the world or the philippines the philippines is just the start yeah um it will be in in
27:45the us uh uk you know and other countries so when we we actually plan to start in the us um now we we
27:54got uh the booking first in the philippines so that's why we're focusing uh the show in the philippines
28:00and then after that uh we will go to the us to promote the movie so we are starting to contact some
28:07people in the you know in the us in the uk of course middle east uh here so we are also targeting you
28:14know uh to show the uh the movie here yeah so are there plans to film the sequel in other countries
28:24uh yes we are thinking about that that's something that we have to consider in the next uh you know
28:29movies that that we'll be doing especially the time uh requirements that uh we need to consider
28:37and also you know the environments uh and so on but uh we we are still considering are still you know
28:43we we still have to to talk about it uh because uh of course uh we still do not know uh which areas
28:51will be you know uh going and so on the permits that's one of the uh things that we have to be
28:57careful because we cannot just you know shoot without permits so yeah so that's that's something
29:04that we have to talk about i i have a question for anastasia you're you're in the philippines right
29:09yes i'm in manila right now yeah we're exactly in philippines or we're in manila okay now um how long
29:20have you been staying here oh i think eight days for now already yes it's quite a long time so for that
29:30eight days stay here in manila how was it like and what was there any do you have any favorite food
29:40or culture or favorite places to visit here in manila uh yes food definitely i got to try many local
29:52food and i think one of my favorite was adobo as i remember it's like chicken
30:00singan i got to try and uh sinigan sinigan and uh paya is a dessert yeah i think it's one of my
30:09favorites yeah so yeah i do a lot of sport here just not to you know to be in a shape yeah and uh yeah
30:19i discovered uh manila uh just i think yesterday i went to intramuros if i say right fort santiago for
30:29santiago yes but one of the yeah one of the most beautiful uh parts of it that i saw taal taal volcano
30:42couple days ago and i was just amazed i was just in awe it's so beautiful it's this nature you wouldn't
30:52imagine that this is just like couple hours from manila you could see this beauty yeah i think you
30:57should also try balut have you heard about it oh my god they they already yeah pushed me to try it like
31:04one week yeah about it we are talking about it but i've i haven't seen it in life but i saw the pictures
31:12and it looks pretty strange i'm not sure yeah we'll see i'll see yeah there's a lot more to try
31:22and a lot of people really eat it or it's just yeah it's good
31:26and it's happy good for your body good for hell oh my gosh we'll see
31:35you should think about it i should think i should think about it yes just don't look at it when
31:41you're trying it don't look at it yes yes just close my eyes yeah yeah close your eyes
31:48and imagine imagine that chicken soup yeah
31:56yeah so but for anastasia if you could have a day or maybe a few days here in the philippines apart
32:02from exploring manila which islands would you like to visit i'm actually sure that palawan is beautiful
32:10and it has beautiful beaches but i'm not sure that it's the right the right time to go now because
32:16it's like the raining season so maybe i should come back i would love to come back but we're going
32:23to cebu and i i've heard that this is also quite a beautiful island it has white sands beautiful beaches
32:31so yes yes i think sir ron is from cebu yeah right yes what are you taking anastasia in cebu if ever or
32:41maybe suggest well it depends uh because you know we will be there on the 30th so i'm not sure uh if
32:50we have enough time so if we have then uh well again you know there are beaches there and so on so
32:57we can go around but then again because of the uh weather right now so i'm not sure about that but we
33:04will be you know going around i'm hoping i'm praying for good weather so anastasia enjoy exploring
33:13the island right okay for our last part we'd like you guys to invite our viewers to to watch the film
33:22on on september 10th i would like to invite 15 people to watch our movie in the theaters across
33:32the philippines starting from september 10th it's an intense story and we really put our heart into this
33:42movie and see our story in the theaters yeah so uh please watch uh john show nuclear winter so it will be uh
33:55um shown in cinemas from september 10 uh this this coming you know a few weeks from now yeah thank you
34:04so much we're so excited for you for this one and we're gonna watch it and of course if you guys have
34:11social media accounts you can promote it here where can we where can we follow you
34:19yes me i have instagram facebook tick tock and youtube yes my main account is instagram so follow me
34:29on instagram here your deals are below you guys can follow anastasia on instagram facebook and youtube
34:39and tiktok so it's sir ron naman yeah uh facebook ron chan and then of course we have our rich talent
34:48vision the company uh facebook also we upload uh we share our you know what's happening with our
34:57movies and so on the next ones okay and we have the website as well uh rich rich talent vision.com
35:03so we will be updating uh so we will be updating uh all these uh um social media sites as soon as we get
35:11uh you know like uh updates from our site i think sir ron may kulang you need to have a tiktok account
35:19and do the dance challenges there correct right right so i'll have to do that yeah right thank you so
35:33much for joining us today sir ron and thank you thank you all right thank you and for pep of course
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36:20thank you so much nuclear winter september 10 don't forget