Atom Araullo claps back to the tirades of the director of his first film against him.
ATOM ARAULLO – The famous broadcaster Atom Araullo has a clap back to the tirades of ‘Citizen Jake’ Director Mike De Leon against him.
The “Citizen Jake” lead actor, the broadcaster Atom Araullo, addressed the remarks of the film’s director Mike De Leon against him after a while of remaining his silence.
The director has said that he is disappointed with Araullo as a person and not as an actor.
Thus, Atom has a response to this.
In a lengthy post on Facebook, Atom Araullo has said that it was the director who approached him first to do the role.
“Mike had no basis to determine whether I could act or not, much less carry an entire film (with what would turn out to be a challenging role). Naturally, my first questions were: Why me? What movie are we crafting to justify my participation as an actor?”
“Mike was adamant that he wanted a journalist and non-actor to play the character because of his unique vision for Citizen Jake. I believed in the director, and like others who admire his work, I wanted to see him make another film after some 17 years of retirement at the time. So, I said yes,” Araullo wrote.
With regards to the reported hurtful remarks, Araullo indicated based on his post:
“All I can say is that I have never made any claims about the quality of my output or my stature in the media industry. To do so would be futile and obscene. I just aim to do my best like everyone else, always acknowledging that one continues to learn and improve everyday. I’ll leave it to the public to appraise the value of my work, accumulated over a decade of being a journalist,” Araullo said.
“Despite everything, I do not wish to besmirch Mike’s reputation the way he did mine. However, I think it is important to explain that while many were shocked by his recent tirade, I was not. It was only the latest in a string of unprovoked, irrational, almost random tantrums that I had to endure during the making of this film, determined as I was to see it through,” he said.
“It had a profound effect on me, and to be honest, made it that much harder to perform my duties in the movie. Almost everyone who at one point worked on Citizen Jake knows this, and his voluminous texts and emails will bear it out. When others found themselves in Mike’s crosshairs, I tried to be there to lend a sympathetic ear. Perhaps his woeful behavior continues because he is never held accountable.”
Read his full statement below:
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