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Liza Soberano in a promotional shoot for 'Lisa Frankenstein.' Universal Pictures international

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Liza Soberano excited to be back on the big screen

Josiah Antonio

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/LizaFrankenstein-02072024.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Liza Soberano in a promotional shoot for &#x27;Lisa Frankenstein.&#x27; Universal Pictures international"/><span class="fr-inner">Liza Soberano in a promotional shoot for &#x27;Lisa Frankenstein.&#x27; <em>Universal Pictures international</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Actress Liza Soberano is excited to be back on the big screen as her Hollywood debut &quot;Lisa Frankenstein&quot; opens in Philippine cinemas on Wednesday.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m really just excited for them to finally have something of mine to watch. They&#x27;ve been reaching out to me for the longest time, asking me to start going back into acting, and I&#x27;ve been like, &#x27;I am. It&#x27;s just like, all of my projects haven&#x27;t come out yet.&#x27; So I&#x27;m excited for them to have something to look forward to,&quot; she said in an interview with ABS-CBN News for the digital series &quot;On Cue.&quot;</p><p>In Lisa Frankenstein, Soberano plays Taffy, whom she describes as a &quot;mean girl&quot; that you&#x27;ll love.</p><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="2952470"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><p>&quot;That was actually the director Zelda (WIlliams&#x27;) intention. She said that she&#x27;s so tired of like, the stereotypical cheerleader, mean girl, like most popular girl in school. So she wanted to create a character that is very much that. Like the Regina George at school, but this time, she&#x27;s nice. And like, you wanna hate her, but you can&#x27;t,&quot; she said, referring to the popular character in the 2004 hit movie &quot;Mean Girls.&quot;</p><p>Soberano admits feeling pressured at first, when asked how it was like working with co-stars Katheryn Newton and Cole Sprouse.</p><p>&quot;Katheryn and Cole, they were such amazing co-actors to work with. I was really nervous coming into the set, because you know, I grew up watching the both of them, really. Cole started when he was six months old in the industry, Katheryn started when she was four years old. So I knew that I would be working with like, industry veterans, even though they&#x27;re very young, &#x27;cause they&#x27;ve been working practically their whole life,&quot; Soberano said.</p><p>&quot;And of course, Zelda Williams, she is an amazing director, this is also her first feature film ever. So I was really nervous coming in, but they did a great job at making me feel so comfortable and so confident on set. They were really trying to boost my energy and my confidence, &#x27;cause I was just like, very shy,&quot; she added.</p><p>&quot;I was afraid of like, over-stepping or I was afraid that like, I wouldn&#x27;t kind of understand or be able to bond with them just because of the cultural differences. But they were very warm, and I learned so much from them, and they were such great actors that like, I was just drawing energy, positive energy and vibes from them throughout all of our scenes that we did together.&quot;</p><p>Working on her first Hollywood film, Soberano said it was definitely a learning experience.</p><p>&quot;I would say the main difference that I kind of noticed between Hollywood productions and Filipino productions, is that in Hollywood, they have all these different departments that are like highly specialized. And so, like for example, with the glam. Make-up artists will never do the prosthetics, or whatever. But here in the Philippines, I would say, it kind of feels like one big family on set, where everybody kind of takes on multiple responsibilities, multiple roles,&quot; she noted.</p><p>&quot;And everybody just works together, in like, creating something great. Unlike in America, I feel like everybody has their own responsibility that they take on. And they just like, really embody that role, and they kind of own that, whatever department that they are controlling. So I would say both has like, their benefits, and both are really fun,&quot; she added.</p><p>&quot;We work with what we have, which I feel like has made me such a great actor.&quot;</p><p>Ultimately, Soberano said &quot;Lisa Frankenstein&quot; reminds audiences to love the people who will support you.</p><p>&quot;I just want everybody to kind of go home, feeling like really excited about what they watched, happy, and of course, there&#x27;s that underlying, like, social responsibility that we have as entertainers and creators to send across like a good message for people to take home with them,&quot; Soberano said.</p><p>&quot;And I think that would be, for me the most important message is like, to love the people that truly like, are there for you and support you. And just like, really be there for them, and allow them to be there for you. I think that&#x27;s like, the biggest lesson that I kind of learned from Lisa&#x27;s character, the main character,&quot; she added.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s a lighthearted, fun movie, and I want everybody to have fun. It&#x27;s going to be released around Valentine&#x27;s Day, too, so there&#x27;s also a romance theme to it. So it&#x27;s kilig, it&#x27;s funny, it&#x27;s morbidly. It&#x27;s a little bit of everything in one.&quot;</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="2783433"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script>

<p>Actress Liza Soberano shared her takeaway from her upcoming film 'Lisa Frankenstein' along with her experience working on Hollywood.</p>

Actress Liza Soberano shared her takeaway from her upcoming film 'Lisa Frankenstein' along with her experience working on Hollywood.