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Director Mae Cruz Alviar calls 'Can't Buy Me Love' a new gen love story

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Reyma Deveza, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Stars and director of upcoming ABS-CBN primetime series “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Reyma Deveza, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/07/26/donbelle-direk-mae.jpg"/><figcaption>Stars and director of upcoming ABS-CBN primetime series “Can’t Buy Me Love.” <em>Reyma Deveza, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA -- Director Mae Cruz-Alviar shared more details about the upcoming ABS-CBN primetime series &quot;Can&#x27;t Buy Me Love,&quot; starring the love team of Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano.</p><p>In an interview with ABS-CBN News on Monday after the official announcement of the project, Alviar said the serye is a &quot;classic love story&quot; with new gen characters.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2735515" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div style="text-align:center"><em><strong>Director Mae Cruz-Alviar shares more about &quot;Can&#x27;t Buy Me Love,&quot; which stars Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano.</strong></em></div><p>&quot;Pero ang maganda rito kasi we&#x27;ve seen them already ng new gen doon sa kanilang series at past movies but this is like a classic, classic love story, pero ang characters mo ay very new gen,&quot; Alviar shared.</p><p>In the series, Mariano plays Caroline, a Chinese born to a very rich and traditional family.</p><p>Pangilinan plays Bingo, a hardworking guy whose dream is to provide for his poor family.<br/> <br/>Alviar did not disclose on where they will shoot the series but earlier said that they will start shooting this month.</p><p>The director also praised her two stars for being hardworking</p><p>&quot;Na-impress din ako sa kanila kasi talagang they want this. Hindi sila &#x27;yung okay nagkataon sumikat sila, nagkataon hit &#x27;yung projects nila and then nandoon na ang yabang na, no. Sobra silang ano pa rin, they want to make this work. They want to make this work even more,&quot; Alviar said during the project&#x27;s announcement.</p><p>For Pangilinan and Mariano, it was a dream come true to star in their first primetime serye.</p><p>&quot;Dream come true and I&#x27;m sure the supporters have all been waiting so ito yung parang regalo namin sa kanilang lahat for everything,&quot; Pangilinan said.</p><p>&quot;Grabe we&#x27;ve been seeing most of your tweets asking us &#x27;when will you guys start, when will you guys start?&#x27; Guys this is it we are going to shoot this month and it will show this year definitely. And, we can&#x27;t just wait na mapanood niyo ang &quot;Can&#x27;t Buy Me Love,&#x27;&quot; Mariano added.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/07/25/23/donny-pangilinan-belle-mariano-to-star-in-first-primetime-series">Donny Pangilinan, Belle Mariano to headline primetime series &#x27;Can&#x27;t Buy Me Love&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>Mariano and Pangilinan were first announced as the lead stars of “Can’t Buy Me Love&quot; last December as seen in an omnibus trailer of ABS-CBN’s 2023 titles.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/02/14/23/look-donny-belle-all-set-for-teleserye-debut">LOOK: Belle Mariano, Donny Pangilinan all set for teleserye debut</a></li></ul><p>It marks the latest career milestone of Mariano and Pangilinan, who earned their “phenomenal” moniker in 2021, their breakout year as a record-breaking pair with the iWantTFC series “He’s Into Her” and the digital release of their launching movie “Love Is Color Blind.”</p><div><strong>Related video:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aJTFZaeSAQk?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Director Mae Cruz-Alviar shared more details about the upcoming ABS-CBN primetime series 'Can't Buy Me Love,' starring the love team of Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano.

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Director Mae Cruz Alviar calls 'Can't Buy Me Love' a new gen love story

Reyma Deveza,

ABS-CBN News

Published July 26, 2023 04:48 PM PHT

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