Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
Vice Ganda did not arrive at 50 looking for a grand realization about himself.
At 50, Vice Ganda is not only the superstar, the box-office force or the ‘Unkabogable’ presence in Philippine entertainment, but the performer who now understands that laughter becomes a kind of service.
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From box-office hit comedies, Vice moved on to something more dramatic, most recently via ‘Call Me Mother,’ the 2025 Jun Robles Lana (rightmost) film that showed a more restrained, emotionally grounded side of him as an actor.
The film earned the box office star the 51st Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actor award, making this chapter of his career feel especially significant.
Besides his flourishing career, Vice Ganda is also grateful for his solid relationship with husband Ion Perez.
Vice is not trying to pass himself off as young. He is too intelligent for that.
What he resists is the idea that aging means becoming irrelevant.
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