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What happened? Angelica breaks down in deleted 'Mrs. Reyes' scene

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Miguel Dumaual, ABS-CBN News

<p>(Spoilers for &#x27;Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes&#x27; follow)</p><p>MANILA - Angelica Panganiban breaks down as her character Cindy after being told a heartbreaking diagnosis by her doctor -- a scene from &quot;Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes&quot; that ultimately didn&#x27;t make it to the final cut of the acclaimed film.</p><p>The deleted scene, posted by producer Star Cinema on YouTube, shows Cindy learning of the medical reason behind her difficulty conceiving: she has &quot;lazy ovaries.&quot;</p><p>Cindy is then seen breaking down inside a toilet cubicle. The emotional scene gets a comedic twist, however, with Cindy addressing her ovaries.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RLXTmcQI8AY?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>&quot;Wala namang ganyanan!&quot; she says, in tears. &quot;Baka puwedeng mag-relax kayo &#x27;pag 40 na ako, o kaya meron na akong tatlong anak sa asawa ko. Huwag naman ngayon. Kinakarir ko ang lahat matanggap lang ako ni mom. Sige na naman, guys, please. Tulong-tulong tayo! Group effort!&quot;</p><p>Moviegoers who have seen the revenge comedy by Jun Robles Lana, which is currently on its third week in cinemas, will not recognize this plot point; Cindy being potentially barren was not mentioned throughout the film.</p><p>Lana, in a phone interview with ABS-CBN News Wednesday, explained that the scene was part of the original two-and-a-half hour cut of &quot;Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It was a hilarious scene, and at the same time, set up &#x27;yon for the audience to understand what the character is going through. Nahihirapan siya magbuntis, that&#x27;s why napaka-desperate siya na mahalin siya ng asawa niya,&quot; he said.</p><div><strong>&#x27;ENOUGH SYMPATHY&#x27;</strong></div><p>The filmmaker cited a number of factors behind his decision to exclude the plot point altogether, one being Panganiban&#x27;s &quot;brilliant acting.&quot;</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BdCq-KhjfBx/" data-instgrm-version="8" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:26.15740740740741% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BdCq-KhjfBx/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Tey Clamor (@teyclamor)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-12-23T10:40:39+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Dec 23, 2017 at 2:40am PST</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>&quot;Sometimes when you write a script, as a writer, you tend to provide all the information. And then when you start making the movie, you realize na ang galing-galing ng mga artista, may mga puwede kang alisin [na eksena], kasi sa portrayal pa lang nila, marami na silang naki-kuwento na hindi mo kailangan i-verbalize,&quot; Lana said.</p><p>Such was the case in Panganiban&#x27;s scenes as the submissive Cindy, who appeared desperate to please both her husband, Felix (JC de Vera), and her mother-in-law (Carmi Martin).</p><p>Lana surmised that even without the information of Cindy being infertile, there was &quot;enough sympathy&quot; for the character because of her often humiliating attempts to satisfy people in her life, made more sincere by Panganiban&#x27;s portrayal.</p><p>&quot;It wasn&#x27;t really moving the story forward. We decided to let go of that,&quot; Lana said, adding that he also had to trim the film&#x27;s final run time.</p><div><strong>&#x27;RISE AND FALL&#x27;</strong></div><p>This was one of the reasons behind the exclusion of another scene, where Judy Ann Santos&#x27; Lianne is seen being strictly professional with a patient who opens up about her own experience of being cheated on by a partner.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vNG7D3jf2a0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>As can be inferred from that deleted scene, Lana confirmed that it was supposed to take place after Lianne&#x27;s open letter to her cheating husband Gary (Joross Gamboa) went viral on Facebook.</p><p>Aside from giving the audience &quot;a glimpse of Lianne&#x27;s professional life,&quot; Lana said the scene was intended to show what the character &quot;has to deal with after inilabas niya &#x27;yung Facebook post.&quot;</p><p>But, more importantly, the filmmaker saw that it risked interfering with &quot;the rise and fall of emotions ng mga characters,&quot; pointing out that it would have been shown shortly before a pivotal confrontation between Lianne and Gary in a hospital.</p><p>&quot;I was trying to imagine kung ano rin &#x27;yung pagdadaanan ng audience,&quot; he said. &quot;I felt na it was just really too long and nada-digress from the main point of the story.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Hindi na kailangan. Nagpapatawa na lang, e. Parang punch lines na lang ang mga &#x27;to na puwede mo na alisin,&quot; Lana added, referring to a part where Lianne quips she is not Charo Santos of &quot;Maalala Mo Kaya,&quot; where letter senders share real-life drama.</p><div><strong>ROMANTIC SUB-PLOT</strong></div><p>A third deleted scene also released by Star Cinema, meanwhile, was meant to flesh out a sub-plot involving Panganiban&#x27;s Cindy and Nico Antonio&#x27;s Steve. It shows the two talking about random encounters while having dinner at a restaurant, Ma Mon Luk, where a four-way confrontation among the Reyeses earlier took place.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n9dxIYCyw0Q?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>In the film, it&#x27;s suggested but not explicitly that Cindy and Steve fell in love. But in the original cut, Lana said the love story was &quot;quite developed until the very end, at makikita natin na na-in love sila sa isa&#x27;t-isa.&quot;</p><p>The deleted scene, he explained, was meant to &quot;flesh out the romance, and makita pa &#x27;yung chemistry ng dalawa.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Kasi iyon talaga, inalis, e. Wala na &#x27;yung mga tinginan, &#x27;yung getting to know each other, &#x27;yung falling-in-love stage. Iyon, nawala lahat &#x27;yun,&quot; he added.</p><p>Aside from the scene being &quot;too long,&quot; Lana shared that his decision to do away with the scene was a matter of trusting the audience&#x27;s intelligence.</p><p>&quot;Pag gumagawa ka naman ng pelikula, you don&#x27;t really have to provide all the answers,&quot; he said. &quot;Otherwise, there&#x27;s really nothing left to discover. Magandang napapaisip ang audience, magandang nakikiliti sila.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I think noong makita na si Steve &#x27;yung katabi ni Cindy, makikiliti &#x27;yung audience: &#x27;Sila ba? Magkakatuluyan ba sila?&#x27; Mas interesting iyon,&quot; the filmmaker said.</p><div><strong>&#x27;MERCILESS&#x27; EDITING</strong></div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BXSUkJblG-r/" data-instgrm-version="8" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:50.0% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BXSUkJblG-r/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Jun Robles Lana (@junrobleslana)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-08-02T09:24:20+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Aug 2, 2017 at 2:24am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Numerous other scenes were deleted for similar reasons, Lana shared, including one where Lianne is shown reconciling with her best friend, portrayed by Gladys Reyes; and another where Gary and Felix have a dramatic confrontation, after the latter asks his newly transgender partner to lessen wearing feminine outfits.</p><p>Asked if he regrets not being able to include several scenes his team had already shot, Lana answered readily, &quot;Hindi.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m really merciless when it comes to editing my own films,&quot; he said. &quot;Siguro if I had more time, baka ibang movie pa &#x27;yung nailabas ko, e. Iyon talaga ang process ko. I believe in the input ng mga taong kasama ko sa production, ng cinematographer, ng production designer, ng editor.&quot;</p><p>Lana, whose award-winning career as a screenwriter and later as a director spans over two decades, knows full well that after the process of filmmaking, &quot;posible at madalas talagang ibang-iba &#x27;yung lumalabas na product doon sa original blueprint or screenplay. &quot;</p><p>&quot;Basta masaya ako sa kinalabasan, iyon ang pinaka-importante -- na feeling ko, lumabas &#x27;yung vision ko as a director, and na-serve ko &#x27;yung hinihingi ng kuwento,&quot; he said.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BadqyncF5PF/" data-instgrm-version="8" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:26.15740740740741% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BadqyncF5PF/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Jun Robles Lana (@junrobleslana)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-10-20T08:44:23+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Oct 20, 2017 at 1:44am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>

<p>Angelica Panganiban breaks down as her character Cindy after being told a heartbreaking diagnosis by her doctor -- a scene from "Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes" that ultimately didn't make it to the final cut of the acclaimed film.</p>

Angelica Panganiban breaks down as her character Cindy after being told a heartbreaking diagnosis by her doctor -- a scene from "Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes" that ultimately didn't make it to the final cut of the acclaimed film.

What happened? Angelica breaks down in deleted 'Mrs. Reyes' scene

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What happened? Angelica breaks down in deleted 'Mrs. Reyes' scene

Miguel Dumaual,

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Published February 01, 2018 07:26 PM PHT

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