‘Exciting time to be a Filipino actor’: Inclusion rider paving way for Iñigo Pascual, others to pursue H’wood dreams

It’s opening so many opportunities for Filipino artists to cross over,” said singer-actor Iigo Pascual when asked about his thoughts on what is called in Hollywood as the “inclusion rider,” a contract provision that provides for a certain level of diversity in casting and production staff.

Iigo is one of the main cast of the American musical drama series “Monarch” that started airing there on Sept. 11 on Fox.

“There’s no more exciting time to be a Filipino actor than today,” declared Iigo, who spoke to a select group of writers about the work he did for the series that was shot in Atlanta, Georgia, for eight months in 2021.

“It’s not like in the past when you can’t play lead…

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