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‘I’ve always dreamed of this day’: Julia in tears over starring in primetime teleserye

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/entertainment/08/15/08142018-julia.jpg"/><figcaption>Julia Barretto was in tears as she admits that she can&#x27;t quite believe that she&#x27;s headlining a primetime teleserye.<em> &#x27;Tonight With Boy Abunda.&#x27;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Three leading movie roles since the success of her entry to the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival; a late night drama alongside industry staples Bea Alonzo and Ian Veneracion; and now a headlining part in a teleserye that&#x27;s scheduled to air in one of the most coveted timeslots in primetime TV. </p><p>The success young actress Julia Barretto has enjoyed over the past two years makes it easy to forget that she was once labelled a &quot;flop&quot; who struggled to live up to her famous surname. </p><p>For a stretch in her career, where she fell to the sidelines as her contemporaries reached crazy levels of fame, she resigned herself to praying that one day it&#x27;ll all get &quot;better&quot; for her. </p><p>She called it the &quot;lowest point&quot; in her life, and in tears recalled how she never gave up despite these failings of her in an interview on &quot;Tonight With Boy Abunda&quot; this Tuesday. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1427344" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></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;I had faith,&quot; she said. &quot;Every night I talked to God and be like, &#x27;God, I know one day it&#x27;s going to get better for me.&#x27;&quot;</p><p>That day arrived when she was cast as part of &quot;Vince &amp; Kath &amp; James,&quot; one of the highest-earning movies in the 2016 edition of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. </p><p>Her pairing with Joshua Garcia, who co-starred with her in the movie, became a massive hit with Filipino fans, that it has now earned them the timeslot just after &quot;Ang Probinsyano&quot; --the highest rated show on TV currently. </p><p>&quot;Ngayon at Kailanman&quot; is scheduled to begin next week and Barretto is still struggling to let things sink in, turning emotional as she talked about how all this was once a &quot;dream&quot; for her. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRdwY02BVYo?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;I&#x27;ve always dreamed for this day. If before, people could easily --iyong api-apihin ka, iyong ibalewala ka. ...Super, super thankful ako. It&#x27;s just so humbling,&quot; she said. </p><p>She&#x27;s not resting on her laurels, though, as she quickly explained: &quot;I want to keep working hard, I don&#x27;t want to get comfortable, I don&#x27;t want to stop. The fire? It&#x27;s burning.&quot; </p><p>You can watch the full trailer of her new show below: </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m9cXLpfjFbA?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>The success she has enjoyed makes it easy to forget that she was once labelled a "flop" who struggled to live up to her famous surname. </p>

The success she has enjoyed makes it easy to forget that she was once labelled a "flop" who struggled to live up to her famous surname.