Lotlot De Leon won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2014 Manilla Film Festival in her first film with director Erik Matti, “Kubot: The Aswang Chronicles 2.” When she was offered the part in “On the Job: The Missing 8,” she immediately said yes.

“I was told that I was going to play a journalist who would be fighting for justice,” she says. “Weng’s road is really straight. She’s not the type to say yes if she feels that she needs to question why she has to do a certain thing. I have to watch the news over again and how the journalists would ask questions, how courageous they would be, not being scared and just wanting to know the truth and impart the truth to everyone who needs to hear it.”

Here she talks more about her role in the acclaimed film and why it doesn’t matter whether her character is prominent in the film she’s starring in.

Interview and video by SAMANTHA LEE

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