ONE of the prettiest female actors on GMA Network, Max Collins, is back on the drama front after lingering in comedy (as one of the cast of hundreds in the Friday gag show Bubble Gang) for nearly half a year. The last time her fans saw her in a dramatic role was in the historical drama Ilustrado playing an abbreviated role as Consuelo Ortiga.
Collins, a cousin of 2013 Miss World Megan Young a couple of degrees removed, is happy that she is finally back in drama. “It is, after all, why I am in show business,” she said during a tea-time interview at a Quezon City restaurant just before the holidays.
dramatic role in Kailan Ba Tama Ang Mali?
In Kailan Ba Tama Ang Mali? she plays a married woman whose husband (Geoff Eigenmann) neglects until she meets another man (Dion Ignacio) who treats her like a princess and offers her a lifetime of happiness.
Collins says the show is not just about the character she plays, but about three other people—her husband, her boss, and the woman in between that is being played by Kapuso returnee Empress Schuck.
“It’s going to another heavy drama for me,” Collins said smiling. “This early, I am now working on how my tear glands will well up sooner than the director can shout ‘cut’…he he he,” she says jokingly.
This is the first time she is paired with the now buffed Eigenmann who seems to have moved on after the heart-rending break up with Carla Abellana early last year. He wasn’t at the press con when we were talking with Collins. The publicists of the show said he was a bit under the weather, so he sent word he couldn’t make it to the conference.
Collins who is rumored to be the apple of Pancho Magno’s eye said, “No, there’s nothing between Pancho and me. Yes, we go out every now and then but with other friends along.”
Has Magno hinted at pursuing her?
Collins was giggly after hearing the question, but blurted out, “No. Honestly, no. We’re friends, but no more than that.”
What if Eigenmann falls for her during the course of the taping of the show? And that will be about three or four months?
The pretty actress was uneasy trying to find words to answer the question. And then she said, “Hindi naman siguro (I don’t think so)! I don’t know him that much, but I don’t think I am his type.”
Collins and Eigenmann belong to the same management team—PPL by Perry Lansigan—and more than colleagues in the business, they have formed fraternal dealings. They try to look out for each other, and while they have not worked in a drama previously, she knows Eigenmann will extend to her the support he is known to give his female co-stars.
“I am glad we will be working together so I’d get to know him deeper than how I know him now. That is if he’s open up to me, or he’d allow me to be open with him.
Taping has started for the show, and she hopes it would make her 2015 a year to look forward to.
Does she have any desire to join a beauty pageant? “One beauty queen in the family is enough,” she said referring to Megan Young.