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Ces Drilon tries hand at acting, joins cast of BL series

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Ces Drilon in a scene Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/life/12/15/20211214-ces-drilon-tries-hand-at-acting,-joins-cast-of-bl-series.jpg"/><figcaption>Ces Drilon in a scene from &quot;Love Team: Beyond Boys&#x27; Lockdown.&quot; <em>Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA -- Ces Drilon is trying her hand at acting as she joins the cast of the upcoming boys&#x27; love series &quot;Love Team: Beyond Boys&#x27; Lockdown.&quot;</p><p>A spinoff of the hit 2020 BL series &quot;Boys&#x27; Lockdown,&quot; the show sees Ali King and Alec Kevin return as fictional versions of themselves. </p><p>The broadcast journalist and former &quot;Bandila&quot; anchor plays the role of Ali&#x27;s mother, as seen in the recently released trailer for the series. </p><p>&quot;Ali&#x27;s from a showbiz family and I was a star in my day, something like that. And may pagka-stage mother,&quot; Drilon said in a virtual press conference. </p><p>&quot;I wouldn&#x27;t do that to my son!&quot; she added, laughing, referring to what her character did in the teaser. &quot;So I was having difficulty, parang ano ba &#x27;yan, &#x27;di ko pahihiyain &#x27;yung anak ko nang ganyan.&quot;</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tva6zY41G6c?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>Drilon did a workshop in preparation for her role, and acknowledged that her experience as a journalist and anchor also came in handy in projecting in front of the camera.</p><p>&quot;In a way, when you&#x27;re presenting, there&#x27;s a bit of projection that you have to do. Not acting, but projecting. So I think that helped also,&quot; she said.</p><p>Drilon went on to reiterate that she accepted the project only because she wanted to try something new, saying she has no plans of seriously pursuing an acting career. </p><p>&quot;Because of the situation, we are in the pandemic and all and I got retrenched from ABS-CBN, I thought it&#x27;s the time of experimentation. Why not do something you haven&#x27;t done before? I&#x27;ve actually appeared in some movies before, but always as a journalist, as an interviewer. So this was really new,&quot; she explained. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/07/16/20/veteran-journalist-ces-drilon-among-early-faces-of-abs-cbn-job-cuts">Veteran journalist Ces Drilon among early faces of ABS-CBN job cuts</a></li></ul><p>Produced by Ticket2Me, Bit by Bit Company, and 2TinCans PH, &quot;Love Team&quot; is helmed by the same creative team of director Jade Castro, writer and creator Danice Mae P. Sison, and executive producer Darwin Mariano.</p><p>Apart from Drilon, King, and Kevin, other cast members include Kaloy Tingcungco and Teetin Villanueva, with the rest yet to be announced. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/10/15/20/boys-lockdown-is-the-latest-bl-series-to-hit-ph">&#x27;Boys&#x27; Lockdown&#x27; is the latest BL series to hit PH</a></li></ul><div><strong>GETTING OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE</strong></div><p>Aside from acting and hosting an online show on Kumu, Drilon is also busy with her newest business venture, Provenciana, which offers products &quot;that are healing and nurturing from nature.&quot;</p><p>She now sees the unfortunate events of the past year as &quot;kind of a blessing&quot; as it forced her to get out of her comfort zone.</p><p>&quot;I think what happened after I was retrenched from ABS-CBN was I pursued my other interests. I took courses in natural perfumery, soap making, balm making, and scent making,&quot; she shared. </p><p>Drilon went on: &quot;In pivoting, I think I was successful in exploring other parts of me that I never would have had the pandemic not happened and forced me in that situation -- where I had to look for other means of earning income and fulfilling yourself.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Now, I feel so energetic. I didn&#x27;t realize that at my age I&#x27;d be so inspired and full of ideas. Twenty-four hours of a day are not enough, I feel,&quot; she said.</p><div><strong>Related video:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2zEvURFBzPk?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>

 Ces Drilon is trying her hand at acting as she joins the cast of the upcoming boys' love series 'Love Team: Beyond Boys' Lockdown.' 