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She was bubbly and very friendly during the
junket. She was telling everyone how at age 14 she had her first boyfriend who
happened to be Filipino and how she learned to speak bad Tagalog words and how
she came to love Filipino food. But during our actual interview, she related a
far more interesting experience she recently had with the paranormal at her new
house.
“In my house where I live in now, there’s a lot of
stuff that happens, a lot of activity,” she casually revealed.
This writer and the three Latin American
journalists with me in the roundtable were initially incredulous but as the
actress continued on with her creepy story, we all found ourselves increasingly
scared and completely silent, just allowing her to tell the story.
“I made friends with a medium who told me about
the things in my house and what’s going on there that no one would have known,
except me, and she told me about the things going on in my house — that there
are, like, good spirits in my house.”
“Just last week,” she continued, “ I was sitting
in my bed and I didn’t know why the front door opened completely wide. I have
security cameras so I looked at the security camera that looks at the front
door and you see that out of nowhere the door completely opens! And I have
these sensors that say front door, back door when you open the door and it was,
like, ‘front door’ and I am like, ‘Huh!?’ instantly and I could see no one had
come in! I go look right away just to make sure and you can see that it just
opens up.”
“Last night, I was watching TV and I know I heard
this (she made a clapping sound) and I got up, I looked at my boyfriend (Olivia
is currently dating football superstar Aaron Rodgers) and I was like, ‘Did you,
did you hear that?’ So I went to take a look and there was a pan that was on a
countertop that was now on the floor and there was nothing that would have made
it fall.”
So is she looking for a new house now?
“No, I love it! That’s the thing. I want them to
come! It’s exciting!
“The medium said different people have the ability
to connect but definitely, in my house, things have happened. It used to be
like you hear the door jiggling or when I am in the shower you just feel a wind
move around in the shower — it’s very strange, like a wind that gusts right
over you.”
Our conversation topic veered naturally to the
paranormal because Olivia is starring in Deliver Us From Evil, the frightening
new film from Screen Gems, based on the true-life experiences of a New York
City cop whose series of encounters with the supernatural tested his belief in
God and opened his eyes to the capacity of evil to sow bad things in our
society. Yes, what ups the scare factor in the movie is the fact that
everything about it happened in real life.
Australian superstar Eric Bana plays the NYPD cop,
Ralph Sarchie, in the supernatural thriller that brings together the dynamic
talents of director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and
mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Bad Boys, Armageddon,
Black Hawk Down). Acclaimed Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez also stars as Joe
Mendoza, a renegade Catholic priest hunting down demons in the city.
In the movie, Olivia plays Ralph’s strong-willed
wife, Jen, who assisted her and corresponded with her via e-mail when she was
preparing for her role.
“In the movie, where I am seen through Ralph
Sarchie’s eyes, it is really important for the audience to see what he has to
lose and so I had to create a really great family home base for him,” she said.
“I based her off through a lot of women I know whose husbands are in the
military or are police officers or firefighters and they put themselves on the
line every day. It was really important for me to depict her in a realistic way
that I see women who are very supportive of their husbands.”
Olivia’s previous high-profile role was in Magic
Mike and she expressed her excitement getting the part of Jen. “I felt like I
won a radio contest! This is the kind of character I haven’t played before. I
grew up in a military family and the one thing that you have to know being
married to a cop or a soldier is to be really understanding of the things that
they have to go through.”
Olivia’s former stepfather was a military man and
she spent her growing up years in US military bases all over the world (she met
her Filipino boyfriend in Japan) and she has nothing but respect for those
serving in the military and their partners who sacrifice a lot along with their
husbands or wives. The military experience plays a pivotal part in Deliver Us
From Evil.
“It’s really important for us to take care of our
soldiers, especially the ones who come back from war. We need to take care of
them when they come back home. We need a better system, better financial aid,
better mental health aid for them.”
Deliver Us From Evil opens in theaters on July 2.
See it and prepare to be scared.
XXX
Raymond De Asis Lo
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