Published : Sunday, May 15, 2011 00:00AWritten by : BY BREN SORIANO
While In The Limelight host Rhian Ramos details out local showbiz news, the pert and pretty stunner delightfully graces anew the pages of Women’s Journal in a fashion coup – Cinderella’s – of some summery sort. But here, away from the sun’s u-v rays and the kapuso klieglights, she lightly reveals a bit more about herself and how she’s enjoying her definitive status as one of GMA’s brighter stars.
Women’s Journal (WJ): Have you been interested in astrology orastronomy?
Rhian Ramos: When I was in grade school (San Beda Alabang), I signed up into a club to study the stars. In sixth grade, we would go camping and someone would bring a telescope and we’d take turns looking through it. Tapos, buong gabi gising kami, titingin lang sa sky. That time, inaalam ko pa kung may dadaan na satellite – kasi minsan nakikita mo na gumagalaw lang siya na star at hindi nagbi-blink blink.
But did it occur to you that someday you’d be a star?
No, not at all. Nuon kasi, I have lots of interests. When I’m interested in something, I like learning about it. I really get into it. Kasi feeling ko all that we have really is time – so you spend time doing all things that you like…The danger lang is you might spread yourself too thinly. So, if you like many things, you have to choose what you really got to do, how to interconnect them.
How come you’ve chosen to be in showbiz?
A lot of it kasi, I have this need to create…to make some sort of art, to express. And you can do that in different ways. In this case, performance arts…sometimes I like to sing, sometimes I like to design – whether it be furniture, clothing or accessories. I found out na, what better job to have than something you know, where you can actually have fun doing it. Of course, money is fun and all that – that’s why probably we work and enjoying the paycheck – but at the same time enjoy working for it while not thinking about the paycheck.
So how did you get into acting?
It’s funny but my family kasi… I’ve beeen indirectly just linked to showbiz all my life without even knowing it. Because my tita (Ida R. Henares) started as a dancer in Penthouse, then she ended up being a manager (of Primeline) and then moved to GMA Artist Center. Another tito was also a talent manager. . . My whole life, it was something that our family didn’t want the kids – kaming mga magpi-pinsan – to go into.
But it was nonetheless in your background.
Well, lahat kami, we perform in some sort of way. Some of us act, some of us sing, some of us dance. But we never thought of it as a job; we just like doing it every so often.
In my case, I did a commercial to raise money for a drum set… Then one of the higher-ups in GMA (Annette Gozon) saw me in the commercial and asked the Artist Center to look for me or to contact my manager whoever it was. That was so I can audition for Captain Barbell.
Nagulat ang tita ko because, ayun na nga, she didn’t really want the family in showbiz, kasi alam na niya yung world na yun medyo magulo, competitive…Still I was asked. I went in, I did theaudition. Then I got the part.
Sometimes din, I see many young people trying and trying to get into showbiz and it’s hard. Then I would question it for me because it was so easy. I never thought about showbiz; I just did a commercial; I just wanted a drum set. Next thing I know, I have a job – and home-schooled na.
Minsan kini-question ko rin kung bakit ang dali para sa akin… but it just felt so meant to be. Sometimes I would ask my director in Captain Barbell (Dominic Zapanta who was in the room when I was auditioning), “Why me?”…Kasi when I was in the room, hindi ako marunong mag-Tagalog. Kaya kong mag-Tagalog, naiintidihan ko pag nababasa ko; pero hindi ko kayang sabihin, nabubulol lang ako. So, I read the script – iniitindi ko lang siya but I would say it in English. Kunwari, pag kakausapin ako ni Richard (Captain Barbell) in Tagalog, sasagot ako in English. Then, Direk said he saw something there – it wasn’t being forced daw.
That you’re a natural?
Something like that. Apparently it wasn’t being forced. Then, that’s when I just concluded, ako na lang nag-decision. Parang it was meant to be. It was meant to happen… It wasn’t like acareer planning thing, or what I wanted to do with my life… I was really young; I was 15 so hindi ko pa iniisip yung part na yun; I was 2 years away from college, at hindi man lang alam kung anong course ang kukunin ko…It was just meant to happen.
With your prettiness, you’re not a pure Filipino?
Hindi. I’m half-British, half Filipino.
The family is all here?
My mom and dad split when I was 9. He now lives in Thailand; he has a wife there. That’s where he lives and works now… Paminsan-minsan nakikita ko siya: he comes here, or pinupuntahan ko siya kapag hindi ko na siya mahintay.
Ilan kayong magkapatid?
Dalawa lang.
Also going into showbiz?
Mukhang wala siyang plano. There was a time she auditioned din pero I guess it wasn’t for her. At saka nuong pumasok ako sa showbiz, she never got used to the attention. Pag naglalakad kami sa mall and people would come up to me, she would feel uncomfortable. But she’s more creative; she studied culinary arts. I guess performing is not her interest.
How is your Mom? Is she a stage mother like others’ mothers?
No, I don’t think so. Because I have rules. Sabi ko, if I’m gonna start this showbiz thing…
Kasi nuong time na ini-offer sa akin, ayoko pa. Gusto ko pang mag-school. Katatapos ko pa lang mag-second year, and I finally found a school I really like. OK, well, if I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna treat it as a job. I want to make my decisions – yung pag gusto ko yung project or pag ayaw ko; or kung ano susuotin ko – I want to be the one to decide. So Mom agreed… Now I could count the number of times she visited my set with my two hands and in my five years in showbiz. She doesn’t really go, but she goes to all of my premier nights. She’s so supportive that the second I ask her to be there, she’s there, with no miss.
Your parents must be very proud of you now.
Yes. They both claim to be my Number 1 fan. Pinag-aawayan nila yung title na yun.
My dad searches my name in the Internet every day. So, for sure every interview that I do, he’s gonna read it, including this. My mom naman searches the things that are written and available here sa mga newspapers and magazines.
Your Mom is comfortable that you’re still with her?
Yes, yes. She likes it that way.
How far are you from motherhood yourself?
Ohh no! That’s not even a concept. I don’t even think about it as an option at the moment. I feel like… when you live your life, it’s like building something. You first have to lay the foundation; you have to know which steps to take first. Motherhood is not just the step right now.
Again if you look ahead, and given that you have a very supportive set of parents, don’t you like to become a mother yourself and have a family life that’s so like what you have now?
Definitely I do want to become a mother. It’s just not my time yet as I don’t think I’m smart enough, caring enough to be a mom myself. I have so much to learn eh.
Parang minsan, I find myself asking if I made the right decision, or if I get into a situation I tend to think if I make the right decision. . . I don’t want to have a child and wrongly raise him or her. I want the child to have a good head on his/her shoulders. I’ve been wanting to adopt though – that’s what I’ve decided, but not now. And when I have a baby, I want him or her to have a dad.
How’s your mom as a mother?
My mom loves kids. Now that we’re grown up, I find my mom playing with every baby she finds. There was one time I got home and there was a cute kid in my house, “Mom, where did you get that child?”
She went like, “Ahh, naglalakad sila sa village. So I said baka they want to come in and pumayag naman yung yaya, eh di ok.”
When you’re a kid you don’t really realize how caring your mother is because you expect it. Yung parang always, “Mom, can you help me do this; can you help me do that?” And it just feels natural na they will help you. You don’t even think like, “Thank you for doing this for me.”
But now that we’re grown up, I see her more motherly than ever. It took time to know how motherly she is. Sometimes I’ll just go home, tired from work. In her night gown, she’ll wake up even if she’s tired herself. And she’ll go to my room and go like, “Rhian, are you alright?”
I’m like, “Ohh, hi, why are you awake?”
“Noh, I woke up because I can hear you walking up the stairs.” Ok, she would tuck me in and she would do like that my hair and then she’ll ask, “Was your day okay?”
Also, sometimes when I get home, she would say, “Guess what I did today?... Your taxes!” Kasi pinagmamalaki niya when she does things for me. She’s so efficient. Every time she can teach me how to do something, she will teach me – about investing, about my money, about paying taxes…
You see yourself in showbiz for how long?
Ahh, that I’m not so sure about. Kasi, para sa akin, nakikita ko yung showbiz as a business na hindi ikaw ang magdi-decide how long you stay. If the people allow you, then you stay if you can. Then, while you’re in it you think of your back-up plan already.
You have a back-up plan?
Yes, I always have a plan B. I’m studying some stuff now. I’m about to take up business management at the school I endorse now. I’m gonna fit it to my schedule. Though, as I do showbiz as a full-time job – I can’t afford to go to school all the time – they’re gonna send me a teacher or tutor.
Also, I’m gonna take up fashion design – and probably come up with a store one day. I had it in my mind already that maybe Cinderella could carry my line. Siempre their department store is great having that kind of leverage – different kinds of people shop there all the time. So, I would like that those who shop there buy my line. I haven’t started it but it’s well, well part of my big plan.
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