At the beginning of the film, recently restored and remastered by ABS-CBN, Dimitri faces a double whammy: he is visited by a former flame who threatens to tell his wife everything, as his current lover prepares to exit his life-for a woman. In this ensemble drama on infidelity, Eddie plays the rigidly polished husband hiding his homosexual affairs from his bombshell of a wife (Gloria Diaz). As Dimitri de Joya in Nagalit Ang Buwan Sa Haba ng Gabi,1983 I Love You,he plays the wealthy widower putting financial pressure on the widow (played by Boots Anson-Roa) left to deal with the debts of her dead husband.Ĩ. Towards the end, he becomes an unreasonably controlling father who wouldn’t let just any coño (Gabby’s character, of course) near her unica hija. “Why ba do you want to make bunot my balbas?” he says, lovingly mimicking the Taglish talk of April (Sharon). In the former, he begins as an endearing father to her doting daughter. He played dad to Sharon Cuneta first in Danny Zialcita’s Dear Heart,then to Gabby Concepcion, in P.S. As the rich patriarch in the early Sharon-Gabby movies, 1981 Watch out for the opening scene-Tony’s wake-where Adrian, looking down on his former lover’s dead body, delivers the line: “So young. In this dramedy about the rise and fall of an actor who slept his way to the top, Eddie (sporting micro shorts, tank tops and a fabulous perm) plays Adrian, the flamboyant director with legs for days, competing with three women for the heart and body of Tony (Rudy Fernandez). In this epic romantic drama set during the Spanish colonial era, Eddie plays a member of the landed gentry who teaches the peasant Kulas (Christopher de Leon) about the ways of the upper class. As Don Tibor in Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? 1976 As the philandering husband in Huwag Pamarisan: Mister Mo, Lover Boy Ko, 1975īernal’s exploration on the changing sexual mores of the mid-70s has Eddie playing both Mister and Lover Boy where, according to film critic Joel David, he gets to bring out “the comic and sinister aspects of the philandering husband missing in the usual love triangle movies.”ĥ. His selfish motives eventually turn the lead character Kuala (Lolita Rodriguez), whom he gets pregnant, into the village idiot. In this small town drama that mirrors the ills of a larger society, Eddie plays the lawyer with a failed career in politics. As Cesar Blanco in Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, 1974 “Hindi ako katulad ng iba na puroshort-cuts!” 3. In this satire on the moviemaking industry, Eddie plays the idealistic helmsman who refuses to be called ‘Direk.’ “Hindi ba sinabi ko sa yo tumatayo ang balahibo ko kapag tinatawag akong Direk?” It is said the film’s director Ishmael Bernal fashioned Eddie’s character as his mouthpiece, expressing his displeasures and frustrations on the movieworld through the sophisticated and temperamental Direk. As the film director in Pagdating Sa Dulo, 1971 VIDEO: the late Eddie Garcia on his accidental foray into stardomĢ.Eddie Garcia on life as the reluctant icon: “Whatever it is, do it well”.The public and private lives of Eddie Garcia. ![]() Of the 600+ performances, here are the ones we’d be hard pressed to forget. Despite the combination sinister stare and cigar-and-cognac voice which he carried with him to any role because, well, that's part of the Eddie Garcia DNA, he was able to give each of his screen personas a unique flavor and dimension that make them memorable and always utterly watchable. If his personal mantra holds true- “Whatever role is given to me, I do it well because that’s the best recommendation for your next project"- it could only mean he kept getting better with every film. With a mindblowing 600+ movies to his name, it wouldn’t be wrong to conclude acting was the man’s great calling. It would be safe to say Eddie Garcia has played it all. From bachelor to doting dad to grandfather roles. ![]() From closeted gay man to virile chauvinists and the most despicable of machos.
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