Old soulsWhen asked what he thought makes him and Miles click, the 21-year-old replied: “We were discussing this only recently—why we think we are compatible—and we realized that it’s because of a lot of reasons. One is that we’re both old souls. On the negative side, we both tend to overthink. We’re also very passionate about what we do. We find a lot of things funny about each other. For some reason, even if I’m really taking myself seriously, she would laugh really hard at me.
“We’re really excited to work together again. We feel that we will be able to bring out the best in each other because even now, while working on different projects, we’re very involved in helping create each of our characters,” he pointed out. “We discuss work a lot. I changed my hair color for ‘Suntok sa Buwan’ and suggested that she change hers, too. For a while, she had orange hair. I would also get a copy of her script and write my notes and observations for her.
The recent Zoom chat with Inquirer Entertainment was to promote his latest film project, Ma-an Asuncion-Dagñalan’s “Blue Room,” which is an entry to the 18th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. Elijah described his character as “probably one of the more serious ones in the group.” He explained: “We all have drama scenes but Troy’s past is going to get dug up. The incident will cause his past to unravel.”“When people watch it, I want them to know that while it’s not 100 percent based on reality, it’s based on factual evidence and that stories like this happen to a lot of Filipinos. The abuse of power is real, not everyone gets due process. That’s one of the highlights of this film.