MANILA, Philippines – “Valentine Box-Office King” Richard Gutierrez described his latest movie “My Valentine Girls” as “nakakaaliw” yet surreal at the same time. It’s because “it’s hard to believe na araw-araw for three days we were shooting kissing scenes, romantic scenes.” But it was with Solenn Heussaff that he did the longest kissing scene in the movie, he revealed during his post-birthday presscon at the Imperial Palace Suites.

Asked why it had to be long, Richard said the director (of the episode “BBFF” or “Best Boyfriend’s Friend”) wanted it to be passionate. And it was a good thing that Richard and Solenn knew each other even before “Survivor Philippines” and so “we were very comfortable with each other,” Richard said.

Richard has probably played all kinds of roles in his Valentine movies. He was an intelligent janitor in “Let the Love Begin,” a cocky playboy in “My BFGF” and a cargo plane pilot in “When I Met U.” All these movies were well-received by moviegoers whomever Richard was paired with. In “My Valentine Girls,” the actor is out to prove his versatility as he plays diverse characters.

His birthday wish is for his latest movie to be another box-office hit.”

In “My Valentine Girls,” Richard plays four roles – a novelist, a taxi driver, a public attorney, and an electronics engineer. The main story introduces Richard as novelist Arvin who struggles to write his next book of three love stories. He seeks for an “inspiration” with the help of his sister Mayi, played by child wonder Jillian Ward.

In “Soulmates,” he is Oslec, a taxi driver who dies and becomes a ghost and lover to Rhian Ramos’

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