MARIFE Necesito, who landed an important role in “Mammoth,” which stars Academy and Golden Globe Award nominee, Michelle Williams, and acclaimed actor Gael Garcia Bernal, shared with us the link to the trailer of her international film (posted on the bottom of this blog). “Mammoth” is the first English-language film of Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson.
As we reported earlier, in “Mammoth,” Marife plays Gloria, a mother of two sons who leaves the Philippines to work as the nanny of the daughter (Sophie Nyweide) of a successful New York couple, played by Gael and Michelle. When Gael’s businessman character goes to Thailand, he realizes that he wants to change his life. This development sets off a dramatic chain of events that impact the characters of Marife, Michelle and Sophie.
Marife informed us that she filmed her scenes in New York, Sweden and the Philippines, specifically in Subic and Bataan. The trailer of the film prominently features Marife, including an emotional scene where she speaks in Tagalog to her two sons on the phone. The two sons are also shown on a beach in the Philippines, as shot by Lukas’ cinematographer, Marcel Zyskind, whose credits include Angelina Jolie’s “A Mighty Heart.”
Marife shared that she had to dub a few of her lines in a dubbing studio in Makati. She also told us via e-mail that in anticipation of the film’s release early next year, she is doing phone interviews with the Swedish press, as arranged by Memfis Film, one of the production companies involved in the making of “Mammoth.”
The Filipina actress added that Lukas is still making final editing work on “Mammoth.” Lukas is the highly praised filmmaker of films like “Lilja 4-ever,” “Show Me Love” and “Together.” Lukas, who made the final decision to pick Marife for the part, was hailed by his esteemed compatriot, the late Ingmar Bergman, as a “young master.”
Marife said she enjoyed working with Michelle, whose credits include Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain,” and Gael, the Mexican thespian who’s enjoying a sterling international career with such films as “Babel,” “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Amores Perros.”
Here’s the link to the trailer.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am
have you seen the film? it depends on how the director/scriptwriter treats the character… i mean it’s just being truthful to what happens in the real world, there are several Filipina maids abroad… nothing new about that
March 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Hello this is only a role , why ,Anything wrong being a nunny? Hello again even here in the United States they have a popular tv show Nunny but the lead actress is British meaning even British can do the job.Here in the states do you know that even american can do that job specially now that things has been change , life is not that easy to americans and a lot of people are homeless due to recession .Lets face it the image of filipina in England are housemaid and i dont see anything wrong with that, maybe in your house you have maid so whats seems to be the problem?
February 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Ren: At isa pa Innggit ka lang kasi wala ka sa international film. heheheheh
February 11th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Yeah you’re right ren, there’s nothing in the film that filipinos should be proud of.
It only emphasizes the fact that we are 3rd rate citizens.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Our Filipina actresses are mostly cast as either housemaids, bar girls, nurse, yaya, etc. This is how the western world sees our women…