This girl is on fiyaaahhh! Figuratively speaking, obviously. A night out with actress and podcast host Max Eigenmann over Mr. Jose. Ayayay!
“Babe!
Kain tayo ng Oyster sisig sa Locale! Ang sarap, grabe! I ate it last night and
I want to have it for dinner again later,” says actress and my dear friend, Maxine
Eigenmann thru a message she left in WhatsApp. People probably know her from
her character named Abby Rickson in that teenage series called Lipgloss which,
to be perfectly honest, I did not see one episode. Maybe I should, no? I’ll
try to search for episodes online, I’m sure there are all over the web, that
would be something that I could talk about with Max one of these days…over a
huge bottle of tequila, or maybe not. She’s part of a family consisting of really
talented people in the movie industry. Both her parents are actors. Her mom,
Bing Pimentel, and her late great father Mark Gil met while they were shooting the
classic movie Batch’81 by Mike de Leon.
Max is a single parent, a mother of two
beautiful boys and she calls them her “little monsters.” She loves spending
time with them, and it’s so adorable to see how attentive she is with her kids.
She also has a podcast video show which she co-hosts with equally gorgeous
Nicole Asensio called 2 Girls 1 Cup, yeah, I know some of you might be familiar
with that name because of that sickening video that went viral around 2007 but
trust me, their show is really not that extreme…kind of. Click the link to
watch some of their episodes.
Max and I got
along well immediately because she is really fun to be with. She’s very bubbly,
loud, but not obnoxious. You can talk to her about anything under the sun and
she would always have an opinion about anything and everything that you have to
say, which I really like about her because it would always keep our
conversations going. I must say that she’s one of my real friends. D’awwww.
At Massi's birthday
But I still want
to get to know her better and I’m sure you do too, hence this pow wow. So we
met at her place before heading to Locale at City Golf for dinner in which we
ordered, yes, the Oyster sisig that was really delicious by the way. We then
transferred to The Reserve Liquor Lounge, a stone’s throw away from where we ate, a
place where you would usually see her chill with some of her friends and
boyfriend who co-owns the place and who also spins there every Tuesday night. Faced
with her poison of choice, and my ultimate adversary, a bottle of Tequila, I
started asking her these series of questions. Read on!
How did we meet?
Her Version:
Max: Oh shit! We met in UNO, right? In a photo shoot that I was
assisting and styling. I wasn't the model when we met. You were a shoot
producer and it was in North Syquia at Juan Caguicla’s apartment. One sunny afternoon,
in the middle of 2009!
My Version:
She’s right, that’s how we met. I
don’t really remember who it was that we were shooting for UNO at that time since
we shot a number of women for the magazine but yeah, I met her at North Syquia
at the photographer’s place.
If you can give your sister Andi
an advice about love, what WOULD it be?
Max: Love yourself first because you cannot find self-worth when
you rely on what others think of you. You can’t base your self-worth on some guy
who doesn't love you anymore, and who’d make you feel that you’re worthless,
no, you have to find that worth within yourself. I should know!
What’s the best thing that YOU'VE learned from your mom and your dad?
Max: I grew up with my mom;
she raised me to be very well-mannered and to respect my elders. She would always
tell me before, if you don’t have anything nice to say, just don’t say anything
at all. My dad taught me how to not take life too seriously, because life as a whole
is already very serious and complicated. One of the things that my dad told me
also, especially when I entered the entertainment industry, was to always keep
my feet on the ground, and to love my job so that it would love me back.
What would make you stop
drinking alcohol?
Max: What kind of a question
is that?! Ha ha! My boyfriend owns a bar! I enjoy alcohol e, it’s kind of part
of my lifestyle, pero what would make me stop?
Me: Of course there would be something?
Max: To be honest, at this point, I don’t know. That’s an honest
answer. Maybe what would make me stop? If I wanted to. I mean I know I have to
tone it down a bit.
You know what? This is unfair!
Because the person interviewing me knows me too well! You know how to ask the
right questions.
Me: Well, I don’t know these things about you that’s why I’m asking
them. Ha Ha!
What’s your favorite part of being
a mom?
Max: Oh my goodness! There’s always something to be proud of and
you never lose something to fight for, something to do good for, those are the
best things of being a mom. And you always have something to share your
accomplishments with. Oh, and mga kisses nila.
What kind of men do you want
your kids to be when they grow up?
Max: I want them to be respectable boys. As brothers, I hope that
they can be good influence to each other and that they grow up not fighting.
That they know that they’ll always have each other’s backs. And I hope that
when they grow up, when they…OH MY GOD! Ayokong isipin! Shit!
Me: Tanggapin mo na!
Max: When they end up with someone, I hope that they would treat them
well, and that they’d end up to be good husbands, and to keep being good sons,
and just mainly to be good people lang. Mahirap na question yan kasi ayoko pang
isipin na tumatanda na sila.
Who would YOU rather spend an
entire day with, the guy that you really like or the girl that you really like?
Max: The guy that I really like because I’ve come to realize, that
after 27 years, that I’m really a girl. You can say that in your blog! I think
I was just really experimenting for a long time, and I like the attention, that’s
for sure, attention seeker ako e, so I like the attention that I get from both
guys and girls. But it came to a point that I realized that I’m straight as an
arrow! I really, really like your questions! Ha ha!
What’s the best thing about
being part of a huge, popular clan and what’s the worst part of it?
Max: The best part of being in a huge clan is that kapag may kaaway
kang isa, palagi kang may kakampi. Ha ha! We’re a big family and the best part
of it is that we’re really, really close to each other. A lot of people get
shocked about the fact na, di ba ang dami naming half siblings? Bakit ang close
naming lahat? I guess that was courtesy of my dad and us also, we don’t look at
it that way na komo half siblings kami, we shouldn’t be close to each other.
The worst part would be since almost everyone is in the same business is that we’re
always being watched. Everybody has something to say and everything that we do
sometimes get misunderstood. And that really affects us.
Why is tequila your favorite
drink?
Max: Because it makes me very happy, and not sloppy. Vodka makes me
chill but then I get sleepy fast. Wine gives me a very big headache the next
day. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drink everything but tequila is really my
favorite because it’s the only drink that I can last the whole night, if I don’t
mix it with anything else.
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