Philippine theater actor Lhorvie Nuevo-Tadioan has secured the title position in director Sonny Calvento‘s “Mom Possibly,” becoming a member of beforehand introduced star Anthony Jennings, Southern Lantern Studios revealed.
The horror-comedy-drama, a tri-national co-production between Southern Lantern Studios (Philippines), E&W Movies (Singapore) and Volos Movies Ltd. (Taiwan), follows Marco (Jennings), a younger man who reunites along with his long-lost mom throughout a high-stakes Asian sport present, solely to find she transforms into one thing monstrous at night time. Nuevo-Tadioan will play Minda, the mom on the middle of the supernatural narrative.
Within the position, Nuevo-Tadioan portrays a dad or mum who communicates minimally and retains a lot of her emotional life hidden. The character required a performer who can construct stress by what goes unexpressed – by hidden truths, contained emotions and deliberate bodily selections. The movie makes use of supernatural horror to look at the abroad Filipino employee expertise and the emotional toll of migration.
The casting represents simply Nuevo-Tadioan’s second movie undertaking – after her display screen debut in “Phantosmia,” a movie by director Lav Diaz that premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant – although she brings intensive stage credentials to the manufacturing. A veteran member of Tanghalang Pilipino – the Cultural Heart of the Philippines’ resident theater firm – Nuevo-Tadioan has constructed a popularity for performances requiring each emotional depth and bodily self-discipline.
Her work in “Anak Datu” introduced her twin honors: the Gawad Buhay Award for Excellent Performer and the Aliw Award for Greatest Featured Performer. Taking part in the character Potri Loling with none spoken traces, Nuevo-Tadioan demonstrated a capability to convey complicated emotional states by bodily efficiency alone.
That exact ability caught Calvento’s consideration. “In theater, Lhorvie carries a rare authority,” Calvento stated. “What moved me most was her capacity to carry an viewers even in silence. She doesn’t want dialogue to be felt – her physique and stillness already communicate.”
The director additionally praised Nuevo-Tadioan’s pure display screen presence. “There’s one thing deeply cinematic about her,” he added. “The smallest shift in her motion, the best way she holds a pause. These nuances already inform a narrative. That’s important for this position.”
Calvento believes Nuevo-Tadioan’s stage coaching has ready her to keep up the position’s understated depth and emotional complexity.
Manufacturing on the movie resumes in February. The undertaking has secured important trade recognition, profitable the TAICCA Growth Grant at Full Circle Lab Philippines and the Malaysian Growth Lab for Characteristic Movies in 2022, adopted by the TAICCA x CNC Award for Greatest Venture and the MPA Grand Award on the Taiwan Inventive Content material Fest in 2023.
