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THE CURTAIN COMES DOWN<br />
Jake Cuenca’s core is found in theater. He is an alumnus of The Lee Strassberg Theatre and Film Institute. This is the home of Hollywood actors and<br />
actresses like Alec Baldwin, Chris Evans, Uma Thurman, and Scarlett Johansson. In 2014, he won his first Best Actor Award from the International Film<br />
Festival Manhattan for the indie movie Awaken. Last year, his theatrical debut was the play called Lungs, directed by Andrei Pamintuan. “Theater really<br />
opens my eyes, because when it comes to theater, you can’t change things. You’re portraying literature, so you can’t change anything,” he says that<br />
with eager eyes like everything seems to have taken place just yesterday. “I just keep busy and keep myself falling in love with the craft.”<br />
Theater has undoubtedly morphed him as an artist, looking for something more. “[In theater,] you only have one goal. On stage, there’s no hiding,<br />
there’s no take two. There’s no changing the piece, because it’s literature. At the same time, you have the audience and it’s a different thing. There<br />
were these scenes from so many things. When doing it, I looked for something different,” he adds. He did one play as of this writing, but he knows that<br />
every time he performs on stage, all that he feels is that hint of renewal, which made him better.<br />
“I’m dying to perform [again] in the stage now. I’m already in the process of looking for my next play. Right now pa lang, I have such a busy schedule<br />
very hectic one, I’ll always make time for the stage. That’s something I will always do, even if I have to lose money because of it, because I love<br />
theater,” he adds.<br />
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