Showbiz royalty and one of the country’s most popular young actress of our generation, Julia Barretto was rejected many, many timed in her life as revealed by her mother, Marjorie Barretto who was interviewed during the TV Special “Just Julia @ 18″ that was aired on Sunday’s best of ABS-CBN Kapamilya Channel.
One of the Kapamilya’s most popular young actress of this generation, Julia Barretto was rejected many, many timed in her life as revealed by her mother, Marjorie Barretto who was interviewed during the TV Special “Just Julia @ 18″ that was aired on Sunday’s best of ABS-CBN Kapamilya Channel.
Contrary to popular perception that Julia Barretto’s showbiz success came easy because of her connections in the entertainment industry, her mother revealed that Julia’s popularity did not come easy.
Marjorie Barretto was quoted as saying “Sometimes people say na why it was so easy, bakit ang dali-dali ni Julia. Bigla na lang ganyan na siya parang walang pinagdaanan. Hindi niyo alam ‘yon, naka-ilang auditions ‘yan si Julia, naka-ilang look tests ‘yan. She was rejected many, many times in her life,” Julia Barretto’s mother revealed.
The actress Marjorie Barretto added further that “She’s not Julia Barretto because tita niya si Claudine, tita niya si Gretchen, nanay niya ako, hindi. Life was fair also sa kanya. She worked very hard to be who she is now and I also pray for her to shine on her own because after all it’s all her hard work,” she said.
According to the 40-year-old Marjorie Barretto, at first she didn’t want her kids to join the controversial world of showbiz but Julia was so persistent. Of all Marjorie’s kids, it was Julia who really wants to join showbiz and wanted to be an actress, but the mother of Julia told her daughter that she should finish high school first.
Until the time when Julia turned 16 years, the young daughter of Marjorie started crying so much and said “I’m already 16 and I’m getting old. If not now, when?'” Marjorie recalled.
One of the arrangement made by Marjorie to her daughter is that Julia should finish high school no matter what, and that’s the only time that Marjorie will allow her daughter to enter showbiz. Julia Barretto was fully aware of the pressure because she belongs to well-known showbiz clan but she took it as a challenge.
