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Leandro & Carlo Muñoz: My brother, my friend - CONVERSATIONS with Ricardo F. Lo

October 29, 2000 | 12:00am

They’re 2 peas in a pod. Platitude? No, the truth. They treat each other similar bosom buddies, a very rare relationship among brothers.

Leandro Muñoz is the refreshing face in the Close-Up commercial. He’south 22, 5’vi" tall and forever smile (fifty-fifty when he has a toothache).

Carlo Muñoz is the obedient son in the popular "How-do-you-do, Billy!" PLDT commercial. He’due south 21, 5’vii" alpine and is the more serious one.

They are among the four children of Louie Muñoz, younger brother of Tita Muñoz, and Pat Garcia, a teacher. The two other Muñoz kids are Carissa (eldest) and Angelo (youngest, now also training as fellow member of Star Circle Batch ix).

After his large breaks in the FPJ-Judy Ann Santos starrer Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko (equally Judy Ann’s suitor) and in the Vilma Santos-Claudine Barretto starrer Anak (equally Claudine’s lover), Leandro is now starring in Star Cinema’southward Kahit Isang Saglit, flick-directorial debut of Gilbert Perez, again with Judy Ann and Piolo Pascual.

Carlo will before long start the 3rd episode of the PLDT commercial which will finally reveal who his girlfriend is. He’s having his motion-picture show debut in (also Star Cinema’s) Narinig Mo na Ba ang Latest?, topbilling Aga Muhlach and Joyce Jimenez. He’ll as well star in a digital movie-for-TV version of The Walter Navarro Story, playing the same (title) role he played recently in the ABS-CBN drama Maalaala Mo Kaya.

When the brothers showed up at Annabel’s Eatery (Tomas Morato) for this pictorial-Conversation, they ordered the same thing: Caesar’south Salad downed with iced tea. Leandro was wearing a shirt Carlo must have worn on Idiot box; and vice-versa.

Just how close the brothers are can be gleaned from the post-obit complimentary-wheeling Conversation:

Let’s commencement with likes and dislikes. Food, for starter.

Carlo: He doesn’t eat canned food, not even canned drinks.

Leandro: They make me experience dizzy.

What about music?

Leandro: Magkasundo kami. We both like dear songs, such as those by Christopher Cross, Angela Bofill. Mga ganoon.

Carlo: Old love songs, as well.

Films.

Leandro: My big favorite is Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and Braveheart. I like Tom Cruise’s graphic symbol in Jerry Maguire. I wish I were like him.

Hobbies.

Carlo

: We both love to play billiards.

Leandro

: I play chess but Carlo doesn’t.

Carlo

: I play basketball game merely he doesn’t.

Pets.

Leandro

: Dogs. I have a pet rottweiler.

Carlo

: And I have a Labrador.

Every bit far every bit temper is concerned, sino ang mas may atmosphere?

Leandro

: Same. Simply when we become angry, we don’t allow it out on people. ’Yung wall ang sinasapak namin (ouch!). Check out my room and you volition find my personal computer broken. One time kasi, I got angry at nasuntok ko ’yung computer. I’m now saving money to have it fixed.

Carlo

: Me? When I’m angry, I become verbal. Masakit ako magsalita. I do hitting the wall with my fist merely very seldom. Masakit, east! (Laughs)

How do y'all differ naman sa attitude toward life?

Leandro

: When I deal with bug, for case, parang I want to accept it like shooting fish in a barrel, one step at a fourth dimension.

Carlo

: I face the problems frontally and that’southward where nosotros differ. I confront the problem while Leandro sometimes pretends the problem isn’t there.

Who’s fabricated of harder stuff?

Leandro

: Si Carlo. Mas matibay ang dibdib niyan. I can be a softie; I weep easily.

Carlo

: Pusong mamon siya. (Laughs at Leandro)

Sa degree of maturity, who’s more mature?

Leandro

: Si Carlo. He’s far more mature than I am, even if I’m older. Siguro he’south five notches more than mature than I am.

How and where does information technology show?

Leandro

: In the way we handle coin. He’s kuripot.

Carlo

: No, I’m non. I merely handle money wisely.

Lifestyle. Way of life.

Leandro

: When we treat Mommy and Papa to a dinner in a eating house, we don’t mind spending.

Carlo

: I spend a lot on clothes; Leandro doesn’t.

How close are you?

Leandro

: Super! It seems like we’re attached to each other by Mighty Bond. Ganoon ka-close.

What are the things that you lot share?

Carlo

: We used to share a room, until Leandro had the room downstairs fixed. Now he has a room of his ain and the room we used to share is all mine. The room downstairs used to exist the one occupied past Mommy and Papa who at present utilise ane of the rooms upstairs.

Leandro

: Yous should see my room. The walls are decorated with blown-up photos and posters of my idols – John Lennon, Jackie Chan (including a poster of his motion picture, Rush Hour) and many others. I also collect caps, hundreds of them, and they are all over the walls of my room.

What else do you share?

Carlo

: Clothes. Luckily, we are of the aforementioned size. When I’m tired of wearing my clothes, I ransack Leandro’due south cabinet and borrow his clothes. Ganoon din siya. Not only clothes; we also share shoes, pants and even underwear.

Leandro

: What’due south mine is his and what’due south his is mine. If you notice in our TV shows, ’yung suot kong shirt ay naisuot na ni Carlo in another show. Or the pants Carlo is wearing ay suot ko the other day on A.S.A.P.

What about secrets and confidences?

Leandro

: We’re supposed to be privy to each other’south activities. I’grand open to Carlo about my love life only sometimes, he keeps things from me especially about his girlfriends.

Do y'all besides share girlfriends?

Leandro

: E'er! No, I’m just kidding. ’Yung sa kanya, sa kanya; ’yung sa akin, sa akin.

What’southward your type of girl?

Leandro

: Gusto ko chinita. Mga Lucy Liu type.

Carlo

: Information technology doesn’t matter if the girl is not so pretty as long as she has a pleasing personality.

Has it ever happened that you adult a crush on the same girl?

Leandro

: Never pa. Oh, wait. Carlo one time had a girlfriend na napunta sa akin.

Carlo

(surprised): Who?

(Leandro whispers the girl’s name to Carlo)

Carlo

: A, siya ba? I didn’t know na naging girlfriend mo siya! You never told me!

Leandro

: One fourth dimension naman, ’yung crush ko napunta sa kanya.

Is it true that you accept several girlfriends?

Leandro

: I don’t even have one. My focus right now is on my career. Girlfriends simply distract your concentration on your work. I still have to find the correct girl.

And you, Carlo? Haven’t you had another girlfriend since y'all broke upwardly with Carol (Banawa)?

Carlo

: None. Similar Leandro, I’m concentrating on my career. Carol and I bankrupt up last yr after the decease of her brother in an accident (at the SM motorcar park, with Carol’due south father besides badly injure past monoxide poisoning). Ballad is the breadwinner in the family; I’grand too helping my family.

Do you share in the family expenses?

Leandro

: I shoulder the electrical and phone bills; Carlo pays for the weekly grocery. We as well scrap in in other household expenses.

What are your nearly memorable babyhood experience(s)?

Leandro

: When our little sister Katrina died. It was a very painful experience. When nosotros were small, Carlo and I were non really addicted of toys; si Katrina ang toy namin. She was born with a congenital heart defect. When Mommy and Papa came back from the hospital where they rushed Katrina, they told us, "Katrina is now in heaven!" I knew what they meant. I ran to my room and closed the door and started throwing things around. I couldn’t have the fact that Katrina, our toy, was gone.

Carlo

: That’south right. Katrina was our favorite toy. Leandro and I had friction match-boxes but nosotros just destroyed them. We put gas all over them and burned them. Our big source of happiness was Katrina. We were in grade school when it happened. Katrina wasn’t fifty-fifty vii-years old then.

What games did you play as kids?

Leandro

: Games that other kids played – patintero, cops and robbers.

Do you fight for each other?

Leandro

: When we were in loftier schoolhouse, Carlo came running to me crying. May nang-not bad daw sa kanya sa school. A bigger boy. He was in get-go-year high school and I was in second year. ’Yung nang-bully sa kanya, fourth-year. So I sought out the guy and confronted him. Laban talaga! We were then studying at Lourdes School.

Are yous that matapang?

Leandro

: I used to exist, especially when I was younger. You know when you’re younger, you’re impulsive. You don’t use your head; abroad kaagad! Only as yous grow older, you think 10 times before y'all get into a fight.

What did you want to be when you were kids?

Leandro

: I wanted to be a doc. Or lawyer. That’due south why I enrolled in San Beda. But I ended upwards finishing Business concern Management.

Carlo

: I wanted to be popular but I never thought I’d end up in showbiz.

Do you ever fight?

Leandro

: Oh, aye, we do!

How do you fight?

Carlo

: Nagsusuntukan kami. But that was before. Afterwards the suntukan, we’d divide. After a few minutes, friends na uli kami. Wala nang sorry-sorry. What did we fight about? Wala lang. Pocket-size thing. Parehong mainit ang ulo, nagkasigawan. Hayun, suntukan na!

Who got into showbiz offset?

Leandro

: Carlo was alee. He was a fellow member of (the ABS-CBN Talent Center’s) Star Circle Batch 6, launched in November, 1997. Ako naman, Star Circle 8, launched in May, 1999. We were supposed to be together in one batch, but co-ordinate to Talent Middle bawal daw ang magkapatid na magkasama. Also, when Carlo joined the Star Circle, I was still in school.

And Carlo wans’t?

Leandro

: We were a trivial hard-upward then, so Carlo sacrificed himself so I could study. The plan was for him to go back to school as soon as I graduated. Just then, hayun, pumasok na siya sa showbiz.

Carlo

: Leandro used to just back-trail me to auditions.

Leandro: Really, ’yung Close-Up commercial ko, it was tsamba. I accompanied Carlo to the agency to get his check for a commercial. It so happened that in that location was a VTR going on, so nagpa-VTR na rin ako. At nag-audience. There were more than than 300 of us. I idea I didn’t stand a chance. The guy with me in the commercial was much taller than I was then they fabricated me walk on apple tree boxes joined together. Hindi halata in the commercial, di ba?

It was Leandro who kickoff got the big breaks (as one of Claudine Barretto’s leading men in the long-running ABS-CBN soap Saan Ka Man Naroroon and now in Tabing-Ilog; as Judy Ann Santos’ love interest in the FPJ blockbuster Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko; and and then, before the soonhoped-for-shown Kahit Isang Saglit, as Claudine’s suitor in the Vilma Santos record-breaker Anak, submitted as the country’s entry to next year’south Oscars’ Best Foreign-Language Moving-picture show category). Didn’t it brand you feel insecure?

Carlo

: Not at all. I knew that my time would likewise come.

Information technology has, at present that you’re alluring attention with the PLDT commercial and, recently, after playing the title role in The Walter Navarro story on Maalaala Mo Kaya (TWNS

will soon be made into a movie-for-Television receiver, as well with Carlo in the atomic number 82 role). And you’re also in the bandage of the new ABS-CBN soap, Pangako Sa’yo. When it rains, information technology pours. How exercise yous experience about information technology, Leandro? Doesn’t it make you lot feel insecure?

Leandro

: Hindi. Wala naman ganoon sa amin, e.

No professional jealousy between yous?

Carlo

: None. I’m happy for his good fortune and he’due south happy for me.

Could you tell the states more than about your role in Kahit Isang Saglit?

Leandro

: It’s a love-triangle drama. Piolo and I are both architects, then is Judy Ann. We both develop a beat on Judy Ann, Piolo and I, but information technology was I whom Judy Ann chooses. And then something tragic happens to me. I become comatose later on an blow, just I proceed seeing Judy Ann. How? That’s the revelation in the movie. The story is about letting go and moving on. That’s what our director, Gilbert Perez, will tell you. And I agree with him. It’southward heavy drama but it will brand yous experience light when you become out of the moviehouse."

In existent life, didn’t you develop whatsoever crush on Judy Ann?

Leandro

: No way. We’ve been skilful friends; matagal na kaming magkakilala. We were schoolmates dorsum in loftier school. She knows my friends and I know her friends. We have common friends.

Do you have whatsoever movie, Carlo?

Carlo

: Yeah. It’south chosen Narinig Mo na Ba ang Latest? I play an advertizement executive.

Do you give each other tips/pointers?

Carlo

: I tell Leandro when I see something incorrect in his interim. Sometimes, he forgets to fix his hair and I have to call his attending to it.

Leandro

: It’due south as well his hair. Sometimes information technology gets likewise long and likewise thick and I have to remind him to become a haircut.

If ever y'all do a movie together, what roles would you like to practice?

Leandro

: As brothers, of course!

Carlo

: Brothers na magka-abroad but subsequently nagkabati din.

How would you lot draw each other in a few words?

Carlo

: Okay na okay siya.

Leandro

: He should have been my kuya; he’s more mature than I am. Responsible. If he were our kuya, he would steer our lives meliorate, me and our younger brother and older sister. He would be a perfect kuya.

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Source: https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2000/10/29/91792/leandro-carlo-muoz-my-brother-my-friend-conversations-ricardo-f-lo