After the successful US premiere of his newest Star Cinema movie "Love Me Again: Land Down Under", Piolo Pascual shares how the Pinoy audiences abroad reacted to his first movie outing with leading lady Angel Locsin.

“We had a screening last week in LA (Los Angeles) and Frisco (San Francisco). Both screenings were well-attended naman. It was fun to have a premiere in the States. It was also our first time that we got to watch the film also. Mas active yung tao kasi they were excited. They were reacting in every scene. They were just screaming and crying at the same time so it was fun. We had a blast,” he recalls.

After their teleserye Lobo ended earlier this year, Piolo says he has looked forward to doing another project with Angel.

“We've become more comfortable of course after Lobo. We were together almost every day for eight months. With this movie, we got to know each other better because we had a lot of downtime. It was really better for us that we got to do a movie right after Lobo,” Piolo shares.

The matinee idol also shares that he and Angel finally found the opportunity to bond and become closer while doing the movie.

“Our working relationship is very different now. It’s changed a lot. We’ve become more comfortable. In Lobo, it was straight-out drama and puyatan. I never had a chance to really bond with her or even get to know her better. But with the movie, we had time both in Bukidnon and Australia so we really had time to talk and just have fun. We were really more comfortable now while doing the movie,” he adds.

Piolo, who plays a cowboy in film, also admits that his character in the movie is almost the total opposite of his role in Lobo.

“It’s very different. I played a soldier in Lobo and I was very stiff and very formal. While in Love Me Again: Land Down Under, I played a cowboy. I had to learn how to ride a horse. Character-wise, he was very free-spirited, so very, very contrasting yung characters,” he says.

In order to accurately portray his role, Piolo willingly learned how to be a cowboy while shooting scenes in Bukidnon.

“I was in the stables every day for a month. I was training almost every day when I got to Bukidnon. I was riding horses and I got to like it. I didn’t just learn how to ride a horse, I also had to learn things like how to lasso and how to master cattle and be a rancher,” Piolo recalls.

The star also had a good experience with his director, Rory Quintos. “She was very nice to work with because she doesn't intimidate or give us a hard time. She listens to her actors. You can talk to her. She knows what she’s doing and it's very, very important that the director knows what she's doing and she knows her shots,” he says. The multi-product endorser says that the movie was one memorable project for him.

“The whole movie is unforgettable. I mean, the shooting in Bukidnon and the outback in Australia. There’s no one favorite moment talaga,” he admits.

This coming holiday break, Piolo shares his plans to travel abroad for a vacation with his family.

“I’m spending Christmas with my family in the States. I leave just before Christmas—on the 24th—and I’ll be there until after New Year. We’re having a white Christmas in one of the mountains in California. And for New Year, we’re going to Utah so I’m very, very excited. I’ll also get to rest,” he happily shares.

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