Allen Dizon is a battered husband
2017 is the fruitful year for award-winning and internationally acclaimed actor Allen Dizon.
This year, he won the special jury prize for acting at the 33rd Warsaw Film Festival in Poland, alongside his co-actor Angeline Nicholle Sanoy.
This is for ATD Productions’ “Bomba” (The Bomb) where he won the jury’s nod for his tour-de force performance of a deaf-mute who has a taboo relationship with his ward.
He’s also one of tinseltown’s busiest actor.
Aside from the TV series “Amo,” he has just finished “Persons of Interest” where he plays the role of a blind chef who gets embroiled in an affair with an old woman.
He’s also the lead actor of Brillante Mendoza’s “The Right to Kill” and “Bayang Magiliw” where he shares stellar honors with Judy Ann Santos in the latter.
With all these projects coming to fruition, Allen has a lot to be thankful for.
“Unang-una nagpapasalamat ako sa Diyos na binigyan niya ako ng magagandang projects, magagandang roles at magagandang pelikula.
“Ang sarap ng pakiramdam. Happy din ako dahil ibang level na rin ang nakaka-partner ko kasi lahat sila magagaling. Mas humihirap ang roles pero sa palagay ko naman ay nagagawa ko nang tama,” he said.
Even though his two movies “Bomba” (The Bomb) and “Persons of Interest” have yet to be shown locally, the indefatigable actor will soon start his third collaboration with acclaimed director Ralston Jover in “Latay.”
The movie will deal about sexual politics and domestic violence against men.
One of the highlights of the film is the Aguman Sandok festival in Minalin, Pampanga where he gets to cross-dress.
Although he said in a previous interview that he felt awkward in doing gay or gay-themed roles where he has to cross-dress, he said that he has to change his mind.
“Pumayag na ako kasi hindi lang naman ako mag-isang magdadamit- babae. Marami kami. At saka isa siyang community. Magbabababae lang naman siya pero hindi naman aarteng babae. Lalake pa rin siya at part lang siya ng festival sa Minalin,” he explained.
According to Allen, his character is based on the true to life account of an acquaintance who had been subjected to battery (physically and emotionally) by his partner.
Although he is not the ‘ander de saya’ type, Allen does not want to judge men who consent to being abused by women or their partners.
“Kung sasaktan ka ng babae, parang hindi ka lalake. Parang wala kang bayag noon. Ba’t ka papayag na ganoon? Hindi ko alam dahil hindi naman ako ganoon. Hindi pa rin naman ipinapanganak ang babaeng aander sa akin,” he pointed out.
“Siguro, it’s the way na ganoon sila magmahal o nasanay na sila sa kanilang mga asawa noong girlfriend-boyfriend pa kaya depende siya. Malalim kasi iyon. O baka naman, dahil sobrang bait nila. Hindi mo rin naman masabi kung paano, kasi kanya-kanyang siyang situwasyon din naman siya,” he added.
He admitted also that he and his wife have differences sometimes but it has not reached a point where they have to resort to physical violence.
“Nasaktan na rin ako pero never iyong pisikalan sa isang babae. Siyempre, nangyayari rin na nag-aaway kayong mag-asawa. Minsan, sinasalo ko na lang iyong mga ibinabato sa akin pero never naman akong nanakit ng asawa. Ang mga babae kasi, dapat minamahal at iginagalang,” he said.
It is also Allen’s fervent wish to be directed by master director Lav Diaz.
“Siyempre, Lav Diaz iyon. Sino ba naman ang hindi nagnanais na maidirek ng isang Lav Diaz na bukod sa magaling ay winner sa Venice at Berlinale,” he praised.
