Vice Ganda is set to star in a new movie this year. Entitled And The Breadwinner Is, the project marks the first collaboration between Star Cinema and The IdeaFirst Company. It is also the first time for Vice Ganda to be working with award-winning director Jun Robles Lana.
“This is the first time we’re working together, and I’m really happy. This is a highlight of my career not just for this year, but for my movie career. This is one of the biggest highlights,” Vice Ganda said.
Lana expressed excitement about working with Vice Ganda for the first time, promising viewers a different cinematic experience filled with comedy, drama, and heartfelt moments.
“It is everything that people are waiting for in a Vice Ganda movie, the hilarious and riotous comedy and so much more. If we’ve seen Vice makes us laugh, we will also see him touch our hearts,” the director said.
With Lana’s directorial style combined with his comedic brilliance, Vice Ganda hopes to fulfill his dream of doing a film that will resonate with viewers long after its release.
“I’ve had my fair share in the box office somehow. I want to have in my filmography a movie that’s been fought for in international film festivals. This is my dream. I have been praying for a movie that has internal value,” he said.
“You know, there are also movies that didn’t do well at the box office but have internal value in Philippine cinema and in the consciousness of the people who watched it. There comes a time when it’s revisited because of the type of film it is. I want to experience that now,” the TV host-comedian added.
The movie’s writers, Daisy Cayanan Mijares and Jumbo Albano, shared that And The Breadwinner Is will relate the experiences of a family’s breadwinner and explore their joys, pains, struggles, and hopes.
Vice Ganda thanked the viewers who supported his movie career and made him the highest-grossing Filipino movie actor of all time whose movies have raked in a gross total of P4.6 billion at the box office.
When asked who is joining him in the cast, Vice only revealed that her co-host in It’s Showtime, Jhong Hilario, will be part of the movie.