‘Ngayon at Kailanman’: A modern take on classic story
Julia Barretto and Joshua Garcia are ready to take their acting prowess a notch higher as they star in ABS-CBN’s latest series offering, “Ngayon at Kailanman” which can be seen outside the Philippines via The Filipino Channel (TFC), with its pilot episode streaming in most countries worldwide via TFC online tonight at 8:30.
Their team-up was first seen in the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival entry “Vince, Kath, James,” where they were teenagers that are new with the idea of love. Their tandem has grown from teens who fell in love for the first time to two persons who had loved, been hurt, and was careful to love again, in their films “Love You to the Stars and Back” and “Unexpectedly Yours,” both in 2017.
Early this year, the loveteam popularly known as JoshLia took their viewers by surprise when they portrayed the role of young adults exposed to the realities of life in the film “I Love You, Hater.”
Now, Julia and Joshua are ready to touch more hearts as they move from the big screen to the small screen and star in their first TV series “Ngayon at Kailanman.”
The actors get out of their comfort zones as they give life to the characters of Eva (Julia) and Inno (Joshua). Used to her reserved and rich characters, Julia will shift to the loud and jolly Eva who is living in the slums, while Joshua, who was used to the positive and all smiles characters, will turn to a stiff and quiet Inno who is from an elite family.
“Ngayon at Kailanman” will tell the story of two people from different worlds who will enter each other’s lives and fall in love. However, destiny has other plans for them as their love will be tested by Inno’s family, the Cortes clan, and the mystery behind Eva’s identity.
The series is a combination of the classic story of a Filipino series and the modern eye on how the younger generation takes on the realities of life. It is a clash of preserving the conventional pass-on of heirloom and living a purposive life.
Part of the cast of “Ngayon at Kailanman” are Rio Locsin, Iza Calzado, Christian Vasquez, Alice Dixson, Ina Raymundo, Dominic Ochoa, TJ Trinidad, Jameson Blake and Joao Constancia.