As a kid, Abdul Raman was terrified of Cherie Gil.
He had yet to understand the distinction between reality and fiction, and so he believed that the actress and the ruthless villains she played on television were one and the same. He didn’t want to become an actor, he recalled. “What if I run into her?”
He did run into her. By a curious twist of fate, Abdul joined the talent search “StarStruck” in the same year Cherie was selected to sit as one of the judges. Now, surreally enough, the two find themselves working together in GMA 7’s coming drama series, “Legal Wives.” But he’s no longer scared, Abdul said. In fact, he now sees and treats Cherie as his “second mother.”
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