Maria Ozawa in “Fast Talk with Boy Abunda” | Image: Screengrab from YouTube/@GMA Network Japanese actress Maria Ozawa recalled the first time she found out that she was famous in the Philippines, wondering why, as she had never even been in the country at the time. “This is my 10th year here in the Philippines. Maybe at the end of 2014, I had Filipino friends visiting Japan and then they were saying, ‘Why don’t you visit the Philippines? Have you been there?’ I’ve only been to Cebu once, and Manila I haven’t and they were like, ‘Oh, you’re famous there’ and I was like, ‘Really? I’ve never been to the Philippines and I’m famous?” she shared during a recent appearance on Fast Talk with Boy Abunda .
Ozawa recalled that she proceeded to visit the Philippines the following year and emphasized that she ended up loving the hospitality, the Filipino food, and the weather. Rising to fame from her adult movies, Ozawa is now playing David Licauco ’s mother in the GMA series “Pulang Araw.” The former adult film star revealed she had “mixed feelings” about accepting the role.
“It was very hard, actually, because when I first read the script and my role, I had mixed feelings, of course, because when it comes to history, it’s really hard to repeat that because nobody wants to, you know, remember the bad things that they had to go through in every country, which doesn’t mean only in Japan or in the Philippines,” she explained. The 38-year-old a.