ENRIQUE GIL READY TO SHOW UNSEEN SIDES OF HIMSELF IN 'STRANGE FREQUENCIES'

ENRIQUE GIL, THE ACTOR, IS entering into a narrative world, where he also takes on the role of an amateur ghosthunter in "Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital."

- JERRY DONATO

Enrique as himself makes an interpretation of a character that the public and even the people closest to him are not privy to.

In the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) official entry, Enrique, the person we know, and Enrique, the character we are about to get to know, are "strangely" one and the same. That is commonplace in the meta genre, in which the real and the reel intersect.

"We were portraying characters. We were portraying ourselves," said Enrique of his experience starring in a film, described as meta found footage horror in a brief chat with The STAR, "but of course, it's an interpretation of my character in the movie, in the film story just to make things interesting."

"It's something I would not normally do, to make the story more interesting," added he, hinting at one of what Enrique, the character forays into this realm. That is the leader of newbie ghosthunters, plus being a producer of the content and the film.

"All our cast members were playing as themselves," shared he, who was referring to fellow actors, Jane de Leon, Rob Gomez, MJ Lastimosa and Alexa Miro, whom he invited to be part of the show, being filmed within "Strange Frequencies."