It all started with the multi-awarded movie “Die
Beautiful” starring Paolo Ballesteros as the transgender woman Trisha, whose
death came right after she was finally crowned as a beauty queen. During
Trisha’s wake, her best friend Barbs would grant the latter’s wish to be
presented as a different Hollywood star each night of the wake.
Barbs, played by award-winning actor Martin del Rosario,
continued her journey in Die Beautiful’s spinoff movie, Born Beautiful, shown
in cinemas last January 2019. In Born Beautiful, Barbs would go on with her
life as a mortuary beautician, where her life would take interesting turns
including an overwhelming identity crisis, which would have her questioning her
gender preference and would see her attempting to go back to her born identity,
that of a straight man.
If you couldn’t have enough of Del Rosario’s portrayal of
Barbs, and, yes, even of Trisha who still appears in the series as an imaginary
ghost, then you are in for a great treat as Cignal Entertainment has just added
the series adaptation of Born Beautiful in its roster of original, must-watch
videos. The series is the full-length – uncut and unfiltered – version of the
movie hailed as one of the bravest and funniest Filipino films ever.
“Born Beautiful was originally planned as a series, before
Cignal Entertainment and our partners decided to launch it as a movie. Now, the
audience could have the best of both worlds as they had the movie first, and
now the series where they can watch never-before-seen scenes, and thus have
better appreciation of the story and its characters,” said Cignal Entertainment
President & CEO Jane Basas.
Follow Barbs’ journey and “immerse” in the colorful life
of members of the LGBT community in each 30 minute-or-so episode of the series.
Cignal Entertaiment has started serving the first two episodes, which you can
now stream on demand at Cignal Play. One episode each of the 12-part series
will be dropped every Monday until the last episode on June 10, 2019.
Directed by Perci Intalan, Born Beautiful is produced by
Cignal Entertainment, the original content division of Cignal TV, the country’s
largest pay-TV platform; Octobertrain Films and The IdeaFirst Company, which
produced Die Beautiful, among other acclaimed films and series.
Born Beautiful will make you laugh, cry, and believe that
love is beautiful! Watch now!
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