Julia nag-iiyak, nagmakaawa kay Marjorie

Ibinandera ni Marjorie Barretto sa debut special ni Julia Barretto last Sunday sa ABS-CBN na hindi rin naging madali para sa kanyang anak ang pagpasok sa showbiz.

Ang pagkakaalam daw kasi ng madlang pipol ay hindi nagpakahirap ang dalaga sa pagpasok sa industriya ng telebisyon at TV commercial dahil nga anak siya ng dalawang kilalang celebrities (Marjorie at Dennis Padilla).

“Sometimes people say na why it was so easy, bakit ang dali-dali ni Julia. Bigla na lang ganyan na siya parang walang pinagdaanan. Hindi niyo alam ‘yon, nakailang auditions ‘yan si Julia, naka-ilang look tests ‘yan.

She was rejected many, many times in her life,” paliwanag ni Marjorie sa Just Julia Beautiful @ 18 na umere nga noong Linggo.
“She’s not Julia Barretto because tita niya si Claudine, tita niya si Gretchen, nanay niya ako, hindi.

Life was fair also sa kanya. She worked very hard to be who she is now and I also pray for her to shine on her own because after all it’s all her hard work,” hirit pa ni Marjorie.

Nu’ng una ay talagang kontra ang nanay ni Julia sa pagpasok nito sa showbiz pero talaga raw gusto ng dalaga ang mag-artista.
“Among all my kids, siya talaga ‘yung may gustong mag-artista.

I said finish high school first. Then one time, when she was 16, she went up to me and I said, ‘No, no, I don’t want to talk about it.’ She started crying so much and she said, ‘I’m already 16 and I’m getting old. If not now, when?'” chika pa ni Marjorie.

“So our only agreement was ‘okay I will allow but you really have to finish high school no matter what,” dagdag pa ng dating aktres.

Para naman kay Julia, talagang pressure sa kanya ang maging isang Barretto, at isa raw ito sa mga challenge sa kanya, “Every interview ‘yun ang question, how is it like to be a Barretto? I answer the same all the time.

Being in the business, nakaka-pressure talaga siya because you have expectations to live up to but then it became my motivation to do even better.”

Hirit naman ni Marjorie, “There’s so much expectations and sometimes their generation – Julia, of course, included – they get judge for the past mistakes of us, the older generation, hindi ba?

“So I always tell them that maybe the mistakes that we’ve made, it’s there teach a lesson. Take the good with you and then throw away the bad things that we’ve done,” chika pa ng nanay ni Julia.