Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Joel Torre on keeping his private life a secret! (Episode 484)

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00:00I was excited to be here. I had to do that commentary.

00:18You've been in the industry for a long, long time, Joel.

00:22Yes. 42 years.

00:24Wow.

00:26Or I was in 1982.

00:28But did you know that you were crushed by the country when you started?

00:30I didn't know that.

00:32No, that's true.

00:34You know, the golden age, etc.

00:36But all these years, how did you maintain that your private life is yours?

00:43And your professional life, okay, is yours?

00:47Because first of all, I'm a shy person.

00:50That's why I joined acting when I was young.

00:54Peke and I were already in the theater.

00:57So I had to...

00:59I was shy.

01:02I had to hurdle that.

01:04But for me, it was professional.

01:08As an actor, my acting and my private life are different.

01:12And my father really told us,

01:16Joel, always remember, you only have one name.

01:20And make sure you take care of it.

01:23Yes, I really take care of it.

01:25And I remember that story.

01:27Seven years old, Peke Galiaga, the great Peke Galiaga,

01:29saw you in a play, went to your house,

01:31and said, I want you to be in all my plays.

01:35Right?

01:37That's my first memory of Peke.

01:39Who was my mentor, my friend, my guru, my father.

01:43A lot of people say that the true measure of success in this business is longevity.

01:50Some say that a good actor measures who you are as an actor.

01:55You have both.

01:57That's my question.

01:59Number one, who is a good actor, Joel?

02:03And how can a good actor last in the business for 52 years?

02:10First of all, you have to love your job.

02:13I love my job.

02:15That's what Mg. Vic Silayan told me.

02:21He said, when we were together in Karnal in 1983-84,

02:25Joel, you have to love your job so that your job will love you back.

02:29So true enough, you put everything, your mind, body, and soul, into your craft.

02:35And it comes back to you because you need to have full focus.

02:39You have to invest in yourself, invest in your craft.

02:43And the differentiation between the actor and the person,

02:47the actor is only as good as the person.

02:51An artist is only as good as the person itself.

02:55Stanislavski said that actors are people who are ideal human beings

03:01because we study life.

03:03If you go through acting books, we study how people react,

03:09and everything, mind, body, job, craft, emotions, and everything.

03:13You wonder about life.

03:15So as a person, you should be like that.

03:18Not only in, there is no division between the artist and the person.

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