Cover image via Cinemabravo.com
Jaclyn Jose won best actress in the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival in France for playing the lead character in Brillante Ma. Mendoza's rasping drama Ma' Rosa.
It can be remembered that the last time the Philippines won in Cannes was the best director award of Mendoza for Kinatay way back 2009.
Previous major acting prizes in A-list festivals won by Filipinos were the best actress triumphs of Nora Aunor for The Flor Contemplacion Story in Cairo in 1995 and Eugene Domingo for Barber's Tales in Tokyo in 2013.
Jaclyn Jose tells in an interview of Cinema Bravo the most challenging part of the film was Mendoza's instruction "not to act."
She was also told "not to wear makeup," because the director wanted her performance to be an au naturel as possible.
