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Lea Salonga initially thought Hollywood Walk of Fame honor was a ‘prank’
Lea Salonga. Picture: Instagram/@Msleasalonga
Lea Salonga has all the time obtained loads of reward for her work, to which she is seemingly used to. However when she was knowledgeable that she needed to be immorted to the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, she thought it was only a joke.
“I discovered about it for the primary time a day after I arrived in Manila. I nonetheless do not consider it occurred. I nonetheless do not consider it’s truly going to occur. I believed,” Somebody joined me? “She stated a handful of reporters on the sidelines of the” Into the Woods “media on Thursday 31 July.
Earlier this month, the Manila Worldwide Movie Competition (MIFF) confirmed that the award-winning theater actress was one of many Honorees 2025-2026 that can obtain their star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame beneath the Stay Theater/Efficiency class.
Salonga is the fourth Philippine that’s honored with a Hollywood Stroll of Fame star after Rob Schneider, Bruno Mars and APL.de.ap.
“It’s simply a kind of issues that you do not assume you assume … and on condition that my work is normally in New York or Manila, it’s not one thing that I anticipate as a result of I’m not precisely a Hollywood individual, the Disney votes regardless of,” she stated and observed that her voice actor experiences like Princes Jasmine and Mulan.
The actress confessed that she remains to be unbelief that she would obtain such recognition.
“Hindi Ko Talaga Inasahan (I did not anticipate it in any respect). However I really feel actually pleased that it’ll occur. Hindi Ko Talaga Inasahan Na Mangyayari” Yun (I did not anticipate one thing like that might occur), “she stated.
“I nonetheless do not consider it occurred” 😱
Look: Lea Salonga confessed that she “nonetheless could not consider” that she can be honored with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, nearly to the purpose the place she thought it was a joke. | @Hmallorcainq pic.twitter.com/gzatoqfiqp
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Observe that almost all of her work is ‘targeted on theater’, Salonga stated that she would ‘perceive the lake’ if it was a Stroll of Fame prize within the theater business.
“The vast majority of what I’ve carried out is geared toward theater. If there may be an equal of the Stroll of Fame in New York Metropolis, then ‘Yun Pa (I might perceive that). However that is Los Angeles, that is Hollywood, that is movie, that is tv. I’m like, that is nice,” she stated.
Salonga will show the position of the witch within the Filipino staging of ‘Into the Woods’. This marks her second time that she accepts the character after the main position because the titular character within the Singapore manufacturing of the musical in 1994.
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Additionally a part of the manila staging or “into the woods” are eugene Domingo, Arielle Jacobs, Josh Dela Cruz, Nic Chien, Nyoy Volante, Mikkie Bradshaw-Volante, Joreen Bautista, Mark Bautista, Teetin Villanuioz, Lala, Lala, Lala, Lala, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaezaeza, Lalaeza, Lalaeza or Lalaeza. Facuri, Kakki Teodoro, Jamie Wilson and Rody Vera.
The musical will probably be carried out within the Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Makati Metropolis from 7 to 31 August. /EDV