Eula Valdes: No such thing as ‘repetitive’ roles

For Eula Valdes, there are no “small or repetitive roles.”

Throughout her career, the 53-year-old star has appeared in numerous soap operas—a handful of which had her playing a mother searching for her missing child, like her iconic role Amor Powers in in “Pangako Sa ‘Yo.”

Now, in the new GMA 7 afternoon series “Return to Paradise,” a familiar character is Amanda, whose daughter gets marooned on a desert island. Is there still a challenge in such roles? “Of course! Every project has its own challenges. It’s really up to the actors if they want to give a portrayal that’s ‘puchu-puchu,'” she said in a recent online press conference.

Every scene, even seemingly perfunctory on…

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