Spanish actor Andreas Munoz returns to Manila: ‘I love the Philippines’

As the star of theupcoming historical film Ignacio deLoyola, Spanish actor Andreas Munoz said he is glad to back in the countryto attend the film’s premiere in Manila. 'It feels great. It feels reallygood to be here. It’s my third time to be here and it’s been lovely to behonest. I’ve been eating a lot of food, a lot of Filipino food. My favorite onenow is sisig and lechon as well (laughs). In Cebu I’m going to try the reallechon. All you Filipino guys are amazing. You always have a smile on your faceand that’s really welcoming. That’s something to be grateful (for) so i lovethe Philippines. And I know it’s more fun in the Philippines it’s true,” heshared.

The film’s specialscreening at Solaire will be accompanied by a live scoring by the ABS-CBNPhilharmonic Orchestra and accompanied by the Ateneo Chamber Singers. Andreasadmitted he is thrilled that his family flew in from Spain for the event.'Yeah I brought them here. Being with my mom, my dad, my brother andsister. It’s the best thing I’ve done ever and they’re going to be with me herein the Philippines. It’s the first time in Asia for them so I just want to givethem the present of that. We also got a chance to go to Tagaytay to see thevolcano and we’ve been to different places to visit the pink sisters so we dida bit of tourism. We’re going to Cebu after the initial premiere and go to thebeach and try some lechon,” he revealed.

As he plays thelife story of St. Ignatius, the 26-year-old actor said one of his favoritescenes was shooting battle scenes in Spain which also served as the backdropfor the most recent season of the popular fantasy series Game of Thrones. “We got really beautiful locations in Spain that’swhy obviously for the season six Game ofThrones came to Spain. It feels powerful. Spain is beautiful. We’ve got alot of corners still to explore and people need to come there to film. For mycharacter it’s been so easy being in my character because I was surrounded bythat. I just needed to say my lines. It was really powerful. I’m really proudof the battle scenes and the cave scene. I was really looking forward to thebattle scene because I think it’s something that people want to do like a fightwith swords so I was really looking forward to it. That’s one of my favoritescenes but it was hard to do because of the heat. It was 42 degrees orsomething like that in Carmona with all the costume and then the armor andsurrounded by fire. So it was hot but I enjoyed it a lot,” he recalled.