One time, we were in Bulacan shooting one of the Shake, Rattle & Roll episodes. We were both seated in our directors’ chairs in the middle of a vast rice field under the light of a full moon that turned the waters around us into silver. We were waiting for the lighting set-up to be finished and this, as you know, can take hours in open fields. And there we were with our feet soaking in bangus-infested waters drinking coffee and discussing Sondheim, Monty Python, Mick Jagger and Philip Glass. Escudero would point out at intervals Aldebaran, Cassiopeia and the Pleiades just as Joel Torre did in Oro and he told me, “Peque, isn’t this the life? Where else in the world does anybody have a chance at this? To be sitting in the most unexpected places in the Philippines in the most unexpected hours of the day and talking? Talking and soaking it all in. It doesn’t get any better than this.”
via “Courage in the face of mediocrity.” A eulogy for Don Escudero by Peque Gallaga | JessicarulestheUniverse.
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