2 weeks ago, multi-awarded film director Joey Reyes spent almost 2 hours chatting with the bloggers talking about his directing career, personal life and his project in OctoArts Film for the 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). His film My House Husband stars celebrity couple Judy Ann Santos and her husband Ryan Agoncillo with Cinemalaya 2011 Best Actress Eugene Domingo. This family film will be showing nationwide beginning December 25, 2011.
According to Direk Joey, the film is not the sequel of Star Cinema’s Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo but it is an original story of OctoArts Film that will fit perfectly to Juday and Ryan. My House Husband is about a couple where the wife happens to be the breadwinner of the family while the husband acts as the housewife. At first their set up steps on the masculinity of Ryan which fuels with their neighbor played by Eugene. But in the end there will be a realization to Ryan’s character where he will appreciate this responsibility and sees himself being good at it.
They taped all the scenes in the southern metro which favors to Juday who just gave birth recently which is also easy for Direk Joey because he enjoyed working with his three lead stars.
Aside from the movie, Direk Joey also shared that he is current working on a project where he will be submitting it a Cinemalaya next year. According to him, this project contains almost huge percent of himself and hoping it will passed. Direk Joey mentioned that Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal influenced him to become a filmmaker during his college year as a writer in La Sallian (De La Salle University school organ), and later as an intern where he discover the life in the production. His favorite movies were Lino Brocka’s Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang and Ishmael Bernal’s Manila By Night.
I thought Direk Joey has this personality to be reserved and picky with what he says but to be honest he is “kalog” and very accommodating with no hesitations in answering funny and tough questions. It is rare for big personalities like him to be all out with opinions and views and I really appreciate that time that I met him in person. At least next time I can smile at him when I saw him in the mall or in the lobby of ABS-CBN or even mention tweets with him I just hope he answers back.
Other facts about Direk Joey, he collects Batman villain action figures, he loves to chat and tweets, go to the gym, owns a blog, and goes to Boracay alone on weekend. After My House Husband he hope his next film will be a heavy drama.
