{"id":1907,"date":"2013-07-27T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:06:11","slug":"no-retirement-yet-for-leo-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2013\/07\/27\/no-retirement-yet-for-leo-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"No retirement yet for Leo Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1908\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-leo-martinez-manilagenesis.com-icon_leo_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1908\" alt=\"Photo from manilagenesis.com\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Photo-leo-martinez-manilagenesis.com-icon_leo_0.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from manilagenesis.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Veteran actor Leo Martinez, who plays a retired family man seeking fulfillment after retirement in the black comedy \u201cTuhog\u201d, said retirement is far from his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez who has been in the business for 45 years now said he\u2019s lucky that \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as \u2018retirement\u2019 in show biz.\u201d He quips, \u201cOtherwise, do I just spend the days drinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see myself retiring. Acting is my life, and I will continue to do it as long as I can. Look at Eddie Garcia,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from \u201cTuhog&#8221;, he is also part of GMA-7\u2019s teleserye \u201cKakambal ni Eliana\u201d, and he appeared in recent films such as \u201cOn the Job\u201d, which was shown in the Director\u2019s Fortnight of this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival, and \u201cAlagwa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, who is the Director-General of the Film Academy of the Philippines, also shared that he has already finished shooting \u201cIbong Adarna\u201d, which is directed by Jun Urbano.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s something that he enjoys doing, it is sharing his knowledge and experience with young actors. He said, \u201cIf I can contribute anything to the industry, it would be teaching. It\u2019s my way of giving back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez started as a theater actor, and co-founded the Repertory Philippines in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor Leo Martinez, who plays a retired family man seeking fulfillment after retirement in the black comedy \u201cTuhog\u201d, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-katherine-marfal-teves","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}