MANILA — “It's every actress' dream to win. It proves you're doing something right,” Anne Curtis said about bagging the best actress award from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (Famas) for her performance in the romance-drama “No Other Woman.” Anne's first win as best actress was for the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival entry, “Baler,” by director Mark Meily. “The first (win) came as a shock,” Anne told the Inquirer. “The second time was sweeter and more real. It gave me a sense of achievement. It meant that I wasn't just a one-time-big-time thing.” She added: “It took me 15 years to get to where I am. I had to play the roles of a balikbayan (homecoming Filipino) or a sister of the lead actress again and again. I had to do all these before finally getting the award-winning lead roles.” But she claimed she never intended to win an award. “I didn't think of it (award) in any way, especially while doing ‘No Other Woman.' I did the movie because I felt challenged to portray the character,” she pointed out. In the Ruel S. Bayani film, Anne played Kara, a rich and liberated woman who had an affair with a married man (Derek Ramsay). — Agencies
