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The queen strikes back
APRYLLE LIABRES (Contributor)

8 December 2007
HOLD ON to your hats, Chin-Chin Gutierrez is set to reprise her role as the haughty Doña Corazon in Maging Sino Ka Man: Ang Pagbabalik, who, by all accounts, will be just as wicked as she was in Book One.

"Corazon feels that the world owes her a huge debt since she lost her business and her son," Chin-Chin says. "She gave life to Roxas Shipping Lines and her son; unfortunately the former went under and the latter abandoned her. In addition to that, she ended up with a man who promised to take care of her but ended up hurting her instead."

"She thinks that everything that happened to her in Book One was a huge injustice, so expect her to do whatever it takes to get back all that she lost," she adds ominously.

In so doing, surmised the members of the entertainment press who were at the grand Press conference of the highly-anticipated follow-up to Maging Sino Ka Man, Corazon will once again wreak havoc upon the lives of her son JB, his girlfriend Celine (played by Sam Milby and Anne Curtis, respectively), her nephew Eli (John Lloyd Cruz) and his wife Jackie (Bea Alonzo). That she will do so is fitting, since the word associated with her in one of the teaser trailers for Book Two is 'power'—which means that she will use whatever power she has at her disposal to make life miserable for those who did her wrong.

However, Chin-Chin says there is a reason behind Doña Corazon’s wicked ways. "Once, my co-stars and I were asked to write a 'biography' of sorts for our characters. I wrote that she was mistreated by her father, and that she wasn’t allowed to express her emotions because he didn’t want her to appear weak—which is similar to her relationship with JB. Basically, she was raised in a hostile environment, which is why she had to grow up fast and developed an attitude similar to that of a warrior's."

"Every character has his or her own strengths and weaknesses," adds Chin-Chin. "All of them are made of equal parts shadows and light. That’s the beauty of how the show is written."

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