•Janine laughs off ‘honeymoon’ yarn
Back from Paris where she made a side trip from New York where she “debuted” in Fashion Week, Janine Gutierrez simply laughed off the rumor that her boyfriend Rayver Cruz joined her in the City of Lights for a “honeymoon.” Janine celebrated her birthday with Rayver with whom she was traveling, unlike in previous trips, without other companions, just the two of them.
Back home, Janine is preoccupied with the promo for Babae at Baril, in competition in the Asian New Wave of the ongoing QCinema (from Oct. 13 to 22), a thriller where she plays a saleslady in a local department store, an underdog whose personality changes when she finds a gun right on her doorstep.
“I didn’t have to train how to fire a gun,” revealed Janine. “My character isn’t familiar with guns so she looks awkward handling a gun.”
The movie’s director, Rae Red, saw to that.
“During the acting process,” related Rae, cousin of Mikhail Red and niece of Mikhail’s father Raymond Red, “several names came up. I watched the video of each of them and it was Janine who impressed me with her maturity. I saw clips of her GMA psychological thriller Legally Blind and Dragon Lady. Other actors would cry, iyak nang iyak, but Janine does it in a different way…iyak na may hugot.”
Rae’s first film (with Fatrick Tabada, writer of Patay na si Hesus, as co-director) was Si Chedeng at si Apple (inspired by the Susan Sarandon/Geena Davis starrer in which a newcomer named Brad Pitt appears as a hustler), starring Elizabeth Oropesa and Gloria Diaz in a lesbian love story.
“Writing is really my bread and butter,” shared Rae. “I learn a lot from Mikhail and my uncle Raymond from watching them on the set.”