PHOTO: Screengrab from Liza Soberano’s YouTube vlog
FINALLY! Nagsalita na mismo ang aktres na si Liza Soberano tungkol sa mga kaganapan sa kanyang buhay at bagong karera.
Mula nang matapos kasi ang kanyang kontrata dito sa Pilipinas at sumubok ng bagong karera sa ibang bansa ay naging laman na siya ng tsismis sa social media.
Iba’t-ibang klase ng komento rin ang naglalabasan tungkol sa panibago niyang buhay na tinatahak.
At ito na nga, nagbigay na ng update ang aktres sa pamamagitan ng kaka-upload lang na YouTube vlog.
Inisa-isa niyang sinagot at nilinaw ang mga isyu na lumalabas tungkol sa kanya.
Sa umpisa ng kanyang video, inamin ni Liza na pansamantala siyang nanahimik sa social media dahil sa dami ng pagbabago na nangyayari sa kanyang buhay.
“Hey, it’s been a while. I know I’ve been distant but please know it wasn’t my intention to make you feel abandoned. I was going through some changes and everything was coming at me so fast. I didn’t have the time to fully process what was going on and slowly found myself getting lost in the motion,” sey niya sa uploaded video.
Inamin niya na dahil sa pandemya ay na-realize niya na kailangan na niyang lumaya mula sa showbiz na kanyang kinalakihan.
Chika ni Liza, “2022. Coming out of the pandemic, I was feeling very lost and introspective. I had just ended my contract with star magic and Tito Ogie. At this point, I had been working for over a decade with no real break since I was a kid.”
Patuloy ng aktres, “The pandemic was the first time in my life where I was allowed to stop and be still. This forced me to think I didn’t have a childhood nor did I have the chance to grow and become an adult on my own terms.”
“I had always been told what to do, what to wear, what to say and what not to say. I know this was for my own good. It was to protect me and my career,” dagdag niya.
“But it was a career I had no say in. A career that in many ways wasn’t mine. I didn’t even choose the name Liza, it was chosen for me,” aniya.
“Now this is not a story of bitterness or regret. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s a story about growth and gratitude. At 24 years old, I was finally given the choice to decide my own path.”
Nabanggit din ni Liza ang naging transition niya sa “Careless”, ang bago niyang management na under ni James Reid.
Sinabi ni Liza na sa dami ng management companies na lumapit sa kanya, ang napusuan niya ay ang startup company ni James dahil ito lang daw ang nagbigay sa kanya ng kalayaan upang gawin ang kanyang gusto.
Chika niya, “I had been approached by so many different management companies before, and it was the first time any of them had asked me what I wanted, what made me happy.”
“People were shocked when word got around that I had signed up to a startup company. But what they didn’t understand was that I chose a team that wanted to support my vision, rather than lay one out for me,” ani ng aktres.
Aware daw si Liza na marami ang nagulat sa biglaan niyang pagpapalit ng hahawak sa kanya, pero ang hindi raw naiintindihan ng marami ay dito siya masaya at ito ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon na siya ay namili para sa kanyang sarili.
“I struggled with how some people were disappointed and upset with my decision, and even started doubting myself. Many thought I had changed, but that wasn’t changed. It was in fact the first real choice I made for myself,” saad ni Liza.
Marami na raw ang nangyari mula nang mapunta siya sa ilalim ng management ni James.
Isa na raw riyan ang pagpunta niya sa South Korea na kung saan ay nakilala niya sa personal ang ilang paborito niyang Korean stars, pati na rin ang pagsabak niya sa Hollywood film na “Lisa Frankenstein” na kung saan ay naging kaibigan pa niya ang bida ng pelikula na si Catherine Cole and ang direktor nito na si Zelda Williams.
Nilinaw din niya na ang kanyang Instagram post matapos mabura ang lahat ng contents sa account ay isa lamang fun photo shoot.
At ang nasa caption nito ay isang tula na siya mismo ang nagsulat na tungkol sa kanyang mga pangarap.
“Those photos actually came from a self-produced fun photo shoot that I did…as we were shooting we kind of got inspired by one of my favorite up-and-coming directors slash author Sarah Baba. We just played around with the concept of being jealous of flowers…my poem was me expressing my hopes and dreams and frustration,” kwento ni Liza.
Sa bandang huli ng kanyang video ay muli niyang pinaalala sa publiko na siya ay tumatanda na raw at nais na niyang maging malaya na kung saan ay siya na ang nagdedesisyon para sa kanyang sarili.
Sinakripisyo raw niya ang halos buong buhay niya sa showbiz industry at ito na ang tamang panahon upang magbago na ito.
“I’m 25 years old now and I think people forget that I’ve been working for 13 years now since I was 12 years old. And I’ve been in six feature films over 500 episodes of teleseryes and have only really dabbled into three main genres: romance, comedy and drama,” sey ng aktres.
Patuloy pa niya, “And since I was 16, I had only really worked side by side with one main co-star with the same production company, rotating around the same three directors. And during all those years, I was never really asked for my input, my thoughts, my ideas. I felt like I was being told to be just a flower for so long and I finally started to explore a world of being able to create and tell my story.”
Saad pa niya, “I’ve sacrificed my childhood, I’ve sacrificed my freedom and I’ve sacrificed my happiness to present Liza soberano to the world. And I think that I’ve earned the right to finally be me, to finally be able to do things for me as Hope Soberano.”
“I’ve embarked on a fresh new chapter and I’m finally taking control of my life, pursuing dreams that I’ve always had to hold off on and it’s exciting, terrifying, anxiety-filled and confusing. But what I know for sure is that for the first time I’m finally living my life for me,” aniya.
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