Actress Giselle Sanchez reveals she will play the late president Cory Aquino amid controversy in “Maid in Malacañang”, the movie about supposed details of the last three days of the Marcos family at the Palace during the culmination of the EDSA 1986 revolution.
On Tuesday, Sanchez responded to backlash she received after the movie’s trailer showed her in a yellow dress talking to the phone with an unidentified caller concerning a plot to drive the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his family out of the country. After the call, she was shown playing mahjong with three nuns.
“For legal purposes, I will not mention any name but will refer to my role as ‘her character’ as I do play one of the characters of a movie[…] I have always wanted to do a project with Direk Daryll Yap as I am a big fan of his works as a writer and director,” the actress said in a Facebook post and her Manila Bulletin column “Gossip Girl.”
“Then, I received the script. My heart started pounding when I saw the line, ‘Get them out of the Philippines.’ In my mind, this was something I did not know, I haven’t read, this was something new… I was one hundred percent sure I will be bashed for performing ‘her character’,” she added.
Sanchez said she had reached out to Senator Imee Marcos, who serves as the movie’s creative producer, and asked: “if what was written in my script was the truth.”
“So I personally texted Senator Imee Marcos and she texted back in Filipino, ‘Yun daw ang sabi ng mga Kano.” (That is what the Americans told us),” she said.
“Direk Daryl Yap would like to remind everybody that, ‘Maid in Malacañang is NOT a bio-pic. This is a story of a family’,” she added.
The trailer received backlash from netizens as they pointed out that Aquino sought refuge in the Order of the Carmelites in Cebu on February 22, 1986.
“The attempt to distort history is reprehensible. Depicting the nuns as playing mah-jong with Cory Aquino is malicious,” an official of the order told in a statement.
Meanwhile, Kris Aquino’s official Twitter fan page, Kris Aquino World, earlier shared a written account of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma that said she was personally with Aquino when the latter had received a phone call from then-US Ambassador to the Philippines Stephen Bosworth.
In Palma’s account, the diplomat told Aquino that “Marcos was ready to leave but was asking to stay for at least two days in Paoay, his hometown in the North.”
At that time, late former Ferdinand Marcos was ousted by the People Power Revolution and was on his way to Hawaii.
“Cory’s initial reaction was: ‘Poor man, let us give him two days.’ But we did not agree with that idea. We thought that given the chance, Marcos may regroup his forces or extend his stay indefinitely. Cory then called Ambassador Bosworth to say that she could not grant the request. Marcos should just leave the country,” Palma wrote.
“When Ambassador Bosworth called her back, it was to say that Marcos had left. Cool as always. Cory turned to us after she put the phone down. She said simply: ‘Marcos has left.’ She said it as if it was the most ordinary thing. We all shouted jubilantly. Cory did not,” the magistrate added
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