Now it can be told. Jericho Rosales initially hesitated in courting courting Janine Gutierrez all because of her age.
“I thought she was 24! EJ, my make-up artist said that she’s 24. And I said, ‘What?! Okay, bye,’ Alam mo ‘yun? Bye, I’m not dating a 24-year-old girl,” the actor said in his recent interview with Karen Davila.
At 44, Jericho felt he’s too old to court a woman almost half his age.
Thanks to technology, the Lavender Fields actor found out that Janine’s real age is 34 and not 24. He discovered this when he googled information about the Kapamilya actress.
“I Google, Google, Google, Google. Sabi ko, ‘Oh, okay puwede pala. Puwede pa pala.'”
Jericho and Janine play husband and wife in the Kapamilya primetime series Lavender Fields. He plays Tyrone de Vera and she Iris Buenavidez-de Vera.
To get a better understanding of their character, Jericho invited Janine to a “script reading.”
“One day I had asked her, ‘Would you like to do a script reading with me?’
“I’m sure she has her own version of the story. But why would I ask for a script reading? She’s the only person I haven’t worked with.
“She was going to be my work wife, my wife in the show. All of the decisions that my character was going to do in the show was because of the relationship that they have. This is not some easy working relationship. We needed to ano, so I said in my head: ‘Oh, coffee! Script reading and coffee!” he explained.
The actor brought his iPad and met Janine at a cafe.
“I brought my iPad out and she started laughing. She was like, ”Holy God, you have an iPad.’ I said, ‘Yes, this is a work meeting.’
“To cut the long story short, six hours later we never got to open the iPad. I was like, it ended up with like, Japanese food at 3:00 P.M. and then she went to her Lola Pilita Corrales and that’s it.
“And I was, ‘Wow, I can spend like, three hours talking to this girl…’ That’s when I felt something,” the actor shared.
Talking to Janine for three hours, Jericho found out tha “she talks calmly, a sweet person who’s like, almost never upset about anything and handles herself really well, with such humility.”
“She’s this type of person that, okay, a ‘no’ is a ‘no’ and a ‘yes’ is a ‘yes’ and she knows her decisions and she does it in a very smooth and soft, tender kind of way,” the actor noted. (NIGEL CHAVEZ DE ESTRADA)
