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Alden Richards freed up his schedule to shoot movie with Sharon Cuneta

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MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">(2) Alden turned emotional when he shared the life lesson of expressing love to our parents while they&#x27;re still with us.<br/><br/>Director Nuel Naval revealed that Sharon was casted first and choosing Alden was a longshot because they were unsure of his schedule. But Alden made it work.</p>— MJ Felipe (@mjfelipe) <a href="https://twitter.com/mjfelipe/status/1731332257389117749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>MANILA -- Right from the introduction, Sharon Cuneta and Alden Richards were all smiles during the grand media conference of their Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) movie &quot;Family of Two&quot; on Sunday.<br/> <br/>Cuneta&#x27;s last MMFF appearance was back in 2009 for &quot;Mano Po 6,&quot; while Richards&#x27; was &quot;My Bebe Love: Kilig Pa More&quot; with his then on-screen partner Maine Mendoza, plus Vic Sotto and Aiai delas Alas. </p><p>Cuneta said she missed doing wholesome movies like &quot;Family of Two,&quot; which was graded G by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.<br/> <br/>Director Nuel Naval and writer Mel del Rosario revealed that it was Cuneta who was cast first as Cineko Productions head Enrico Roque always wanted to produce a movie for the actress. </p><p>When Cuneta gave the green light, they chased for Richards, who admitted that he freed up his schedule just to accommodate the movie.<br/> <br/>Richards turned emotional when he talked about the life lesson of expressing love to parents. In real life, the actor lost his mother back in 2008 -- and he regretted that he was not able to show back his mom the love and appreciation for taking care of him.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/13/23/sharon-cuneta-to-work-with-alden-richards-in-new-movie">Sharon Cuneta to work with Alden Richards in new movie</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/21/23/sharon-cuneta-alden-richards-begin-filming-movie">Sharon Cuneta, Alden Richards begin filming movie</a></li></ul><div><strong>Related videos:</strong></div><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=2851644" 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><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=2848326" 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>

Right from the introduction, Sharon Cuneta and Alden Richards were all smiles during the grand media conference of their Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) movie 'Family of Two' on Sunday.

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Alden Richards freed up his schedule to shoot movie with Sharon Cuneta

MJ Felipe,

ABS-CBN News

Published December 04, 2023 11:53 AM PHT

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Updated December 04, 2023 02:30 PM PHT

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