Teenstar, 2004
by: Diana Casacop
John Lloyd Cruz isn't someone who's born with a silver spoon in his mouth... rather someone who is born with talents coupled with charisma to make it a star.
Unlike his screen parther Bea Alonzo, this actor has an impressive record of shows tucked in his belt. He's been part of Palibhasa Lalake, ASAP, Kaybol, G-mik and Tabing Ilog. The latter is where he was able to first showcase his acting range, more so when he joined soap princess Judy Ann Santos in Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka.
Ask why he's in showbiz, he'll tell you because he needs to-- at the same time curious to know how it is to be in the work of show business.
"I never dreamed to be in show biz. I wanted to be a soldier, a marine, and then a scientist, but my fond dream is to be a pilot. When I go back to school, maybe I should take up a course in flying.
He had undergone extensive training in acting, personality development and physical enhancement to actually fit in. Now, he does a lead part in ABS-CBN soap It Might Be You-- after the higly successful Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay. The said soap taught him so many things in acting and gave the biggest break in his career for it made him an instant popular. John Lloyd, along with Bea, has a box-office movie to boot (My First Romance). He, too, got a lot of endorsements after-- Urban Bags, Outland Sandals, Blue Soda, Libresse, Sarah Lee, Silka-- and still counting. What else could he ask for?
Reality check, one can't have it all. If you have fame, you can't have a good, lifetime relationship. They say, that's the prize show biz personalities, at least most of them, get. Should we say that now includes John Lloyd?
Everything was going smoothly, with Ciara Sotto, the ever understanding and supportive former girlfriend of John Lloyd. The ex-couple tried not to be affected by the favorite tandem on TV thing, but that's how show biz goes. As I said, on can't have both fame and someone to hold on.
Said to have been trying to win Ciara back, JOhn Lloyd is happy to be doing another movie (of course, with Bea, which has a working tie of Because of You), getting good ratings again with It Might Be You and being voted, along with Bea, as the Most Popular Love Team in the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Foundation. Surely, Talent Center is all smiles for the two. Just how in the world were they able to build chemistry with two persons who have a four-year gap?
Mystery must have been playing behind the loveteam, disclosed John Lloyd. "Ang dami pang hindi alam ang mga tao between me and Bea. Let's admit that we have a chemistry. When we execute it's as if it's for real."
Really, as if for real?
"Yes," Bea's quick reply. "Even before Lloydie and I were like that, but we're much okay now. We're becoming comfortable with each other. Just like that. We never takl about ourselves or the intrigues."
Okay, they are not lovers; tell hten just how close they are right now.
"I believe there's a certain level of closeness and certain level of maturity, 'yung maturity ng relasion n'yo. Meaning, talagang we're good friends. We are not close, but she's my friend," John Lloyd said.
He said they met at the audition. He kinda felt awkward because she is just new then, "I thought parang bata," he admitted, but adding that through the soap's (Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay) workshops, he got to know her and has seen the teener's ability to act a role more than her age.
Will they be partners for real? John Lloyd said, It takes time and a long while. They just have to leave it open.
With Bea, she can't tell, but she believes in the so-called destiny-- if you're destined to be partners, no matter what happens, you will still end up with each other.
Should destiny tell John Lloyd "It Might Be Her" after all?
"I just hope, if we ever end up together, there would be no pressure from the outside, he ended."
Is he saying this basing on a past relationship?