Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo

Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo
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Directed by	Erick C. Salud Trina N. Dayrit Mark Meily
Starring	Kris Aquino Kim Chiu Gerald Anderson Albert Martinez Coco Martin Gina Pareno Jacklyn Jose Gabby Concepcion Maricar Reyes
Theme music composer	Rey Valera
Opening theme	"Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo" by Gary Valenciano
Country of origin	Philippines
Original languages	Filipino, English
No. of episodes	58 (as of April 9, 2010)
Production
Production location	Philippines
Original release
Network	ABS-CBN
Release	January 18, 2010 – Present

Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo (lit. If We Were To Be Apart) is a currently airing Philippine primetime drama series broadcast on ABS-CBN.

Overview

Casting

After some time, Kris Aquino, has come back to primetime after her last series, the successful television adaptation of Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara. Leading the cast, Aquino plays Celine, a woman who has trusted too much. Joining her is the "love team" of Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson who have previously worked together in the successful teleserye, Tayong Dalawa. The two are playing star-crossed lovers though both their families have hidden secrets. Also from Tayong Dalawa are Coco Martin and Gina Pareno, who gained popularity for portraying Ramon and Lola Gets.

Veteran actors, Gabby Concepcion and Albert Martinez are also in the cast. This is Concepcion's next project right after the hit series, Dahil May Isang Ikaw. Because Martinez was still on the religious series, May Bukas Pa when production on Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo began, and his character in May Bukas Pa was killed off during the first week of Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo. Although he left the show, Martinez had been very popular as Mayor Enrique. Concepcion and Martinez are romantic rivals for Celine. Maricar Reyes and Jacklyn Jose are also in the cast. Jose is back after her last series, Nagsimula sa Puso, where she also played a villainous role.

Production

On July 2009, in an interview in the Philippine talk show, The Buzz, Kris Aquino revealed that she would be starring a primetime drama with Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson. The series was supposed to be Robin Padilla's comeback show on ABS-CBN, but he turned the offer down. Production started October 2009. The locations were in different parts of Luzon. According to Aquino, they shot scenes in Zambales, Marikina, and Manila. All the character's first names are adapted from international singers.

On November 25, 2009, ABS-CBN released a teaser via their official YouTube account. It revealed the complete cast and characters. Then, on December 27, 2009, ABS-CBN finally released its first full trailer during The Buzz, showing its release date, January 18, 2010.

Story and Development

Plot

Celine is trapped in an unhappy marriage with Frank. One day Celine is shocked to hear that Frank’s plane crashed. Grieving the loss of her husband, she finds comfort in her friendship with Steve, the investigator assigned to the accident. Celine discovers that Frank had an affair with Astrud and they had a love child named Ringgo.

Eight months later, Frank is found alive. Steve walks away from his relationship with Celine. But Celine is already pregnant, however, she tells Frank that he is the father of the daughter she named Gwen. From then on, Celine vows to be loyal to her family.

After nearly eighteen years, Celine is reunited with Steve. She learns that Steve is married to Celina. Celine realizes that she still loves Steve, but she knows that they are no longer meant to be. To make things more complicated, Gwen, who has grown into a pretty young lady, meets Robbie, the younger brother of Celina. Gwen and Robbie begin as enemies, but later fall in love.

Synopsis

A rather unfortunate event brings Steve and Celine’s paths together. An airplane crash leads them towards the same place while searching for two different people--Celine for her husband Frank who was then flying the aircraft turned to rubbles; and Steve for a fugitive who was reported to be one of the same plane’s passengers. It is a truly devastating event for Celine; and to further add injury to her loss, she once and for all discovers from her husbands recovered belongings that he is in fact the father of Astrud’s son, Ringgo. With Frank’s body nowhere to be found, Celine is then left with no other choice but to assume that her husband is finally dead. Now that she’s a widow, she once and for all decides to move on with her life. Surprisingly, her goal is made easy by Steve’s sudden entry in her life; but unfortunately, their love affair is immediately cut short by Frank’s rather unexpected return.

To Frank’s delight, Celine gets pregnant; but surprisingly, the latter isn’t exactly as excited as he is. Apparently, she is pretty certain that the kid in her womb isn’t Frank’s--it is actually Steve’s. On the other hand, Steve somehow gets a kid of his own. Incidentally, he meets a poor orphan in Cebu named Robbie; and while waiting for the kid’s elder sister Celina to fly back home, he volunteers to temporarily adopt him. Surprisingly, aside from finding Robbie’s legal guardian upon Celina’s return, Steve also ends up finding himself a loving wife. Celine tries her best to be a good mother to Gwen; but to her dismay, her daughter only ends up hating her than ever. Apparently, Astrud’s plan to subtly win Gwen’s confidence is a raging success; surprisingly, the young lady even admits to her that she would rather have her as a mom over Celine. On the other hand, Robbie gets shot. Being an aspiring honorable policeman that he is, he tries stopping a deranged man from shooting an innocent driver, thus leading to his unfortunate predicament.

As the story goes on Celine is having problems being a mother too Gwen and being a teacher a mother and keeping secrets so her family wouldn't break apart meanwhile Gwen's rebellious side kicks in and as the mother daughter feud goes on anger erupts both mother and daughter because of Astrud's ways both think oppositely where Celine thinks Astrud is just making Gwen do all these things just to get her side and her fathers while Gwen thinks its only her mothers thinking that is wrecking everything no wonder to even her attention no one can get along. The past seems to catch up on Celine meanwhile as she heads to a convention Robbie and Steve get into the picture coming to Manila for same reasons and Steve working while Robbie is going to take his education in the police academy here in Manila meanwhile Frank persuades Gwen to say sorry to his mother but as she heads to the bathroom Robbie and Gwen meet and unexpectedly things don't go so well as the twos bitter enoounter makes things not so well especially now Celine and Celina meet and even Steve's return makes it irritable even for Celine to know that Steve is married to Celina and as paths cross Gwen keeps seeing Robbie wherever she goes even at parties and even when Celina decided to apply as a teacher at Celine's school as Celine and Celina become friends and as employee and boss both women feel same way unhappy marriages as for Celina she cannot give a child to Steve and as for Celine she feels as if the consent of Frank makes it hard to get her daughters attention because of her rebellious ways and because no one understands that all she wants is a perfect family after all she has gone through and now things go awry as Steve is doing a case basically Celine can't help but sell the school because she doesn't want the family to get to close after days and weeks later and because of Gwens behavior she decides to go to Australia which leads to Ringgo not coming which leads the family into more drama now that Ringgo and Gwen and Ringgo have met Celina's suspicion of another woman leads to more peril in Celines life as Frank and her start fighting meanwhile Gwen gets kidnapped but survives and Robbie and Steve save her and see a RX bracelet left in the scene which enters 3 unsuspected women who are trying to get back at Frank and Astrud who they owe too and are the biggest syndicates in the underworld meanwhile as Astrud sees Steve and Celines closeness a problem occurs and what leads them close is when Celine confronts Astrud and after her hit she comes back and Frank and Gwen become close after feeling what Celine felt hurt now As days go by Celines pregnancy and Robbie and Gwen go to the same school the bitter meetings never end and as for Celina after Steve is doing Gwens case he wants to step up as father to Gwen and for the last few weeks he gets closer and closer to danger and meanwhile Ringgo meets Christina and both get to know each other better until one day when Robbie and Ringgo and Gwen were going out to an outing Christina was told by Astrud to leave him alone but as they all left the driveway out of nowhere a team of men kidnap all 3 which leads to a heated up revealation to everyone as The RX have something to do with Frank's disappearances and Astrud's new business the two now work for the underworld and now Steve believes Frank maybe the one all around it Celine doesn't believe it but Franks mother Petulah does and as they are kidnapped all 3 can't believe that Frank maybe all around it meanwhile as weeks go by after kidnapping the Crisanto's and Sebastians are all distraught even Ringgo and Astrud but as the RX gang come in after the survival of the 3 running away from the cruel syndicates Ringgo looks for answers after remembering Astrud had a bracelet with an RX while Robbie and Gwen's love cannot be handled by Celine Celina nor Frank as Steve is still on the case Christina and Ringgo's hearts come together but Frank leaves again but his disappearance and Steve getting close to information about the RX gang Astrud decides to locate where Frank is but the RX team leader Aludra does not want to give information Astrud witnesses and incident between Steve and the man who was Steve's hope for justice Astrud is now in bigger trouble as the police are thinking she is the one who shot Steve meanwhile Ringgo must lie but the only truth he can tell is about the RX gang meanwhile Robbie and Gwen's hearts aspire each other Celine breaks everything apart as one day they get a package from Frank saying his last words for leaving the RX gang to live in Australia with the family so no more harm can be done but the story still continues with twists but how will their futures go even the love between Robbie and Gwen and even Ringgo and Christina and Celines new life as her new child to Frank makes the family closer what things will begin to come their way ?

Cast and Characters

Main Cast

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Kris Aquino as Celine Crisanto

• Kris Aquino as Celine Crisanto - A perfectionist mother raised by a perfectionist grandmother. Devoted wife to her husband Frank. She will do everything to please her husband in any way she can. As a kindergarten teacher and primary school owner, she is dedicated to her profession and tries to make a constant balance between her career and family life.

• Kim Chiu as Gwen Crisanto - Celine's rebellious teenage daughter with Steve. She hates her mother because Celine always wants perfection, but was spoiled by her father and Astrud. Falls in love with Robbie.

• Gerald Anderson as Robbie Castillo - Falls in love with Gwen. Lost his parents at a very young age; was saved and raised by Steve. Robbie is protective of his elder sister Celina, who marries Steve. Dropped out of the PNP Academy a year before graduating, he currently works at NBI with Steve.

• Gabby Concepcion as Steve Sebastian - The biological father of Gwen. He saves Robbie as a child and takes him under his wing. Steve falls in love and marries Celina, Robbie's elder sister. He's an NBI agent who is dedicated to saving lives. But he still regrets not having saved his own (first) wife and their unborn child from death while she was working overseas.

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Kim Chiu as Gwen Crisanto

• Albert Martinez as Frank Crisanto (RX Gang code name: "Uno") - Celine's airline pilot husband who was thought of as dead after a plane crash, but turns out to be alive after several months. He has a son, Ringgo with his co-worker, Astrud, due to an affair.

• Coco Martin as Ringgo Quijano - Frank's out of wedlock son to Astrud, and with whom Gwen is raised as her brother. Rebellious and believes he is abnormal because of his mental illness (bipolar disorder). Ringgo looks up to his father and respects him so much that he gets himself (and his sister) in trouble following his wishes.

• Gina Pareño as "Mama Pet" - Frank's overprotective mother. She loves Frank so much that she will do anything for him. She corrects every mistake Celine, Frank, or Gwen does. After becoming a widow, she raised Frank alone and did everything to give the best of everything to her son. Now that Frank has his own family, she still lives with them and gets in between their family affairs.

• Jacklyn Jose as Astrud Quijano (RX Gang code name: "Tres") - Co-worker of Frank, with whom she has a son, Ringgo, due to an affair. She spoils Gwen so that Gwen would love her more as a mother and because she can't take Frank away from Celine.

• Maricar Reyes as Celina Castillo - Elder sister of Robbie. She and her brother lost their parents after they got shot. She marries Steve, but finds out that she cannot produce a baby.

• Jessy Mendiola as Cristina Angeles - She and Ringo meet at aeronautics school and fall in love. Her dad (Mark Gil) is unsupportive of their relationship, yet they continue their relationship in secret. Her father's family wants to move him for physical rehabilitation in the USA, after a hit and run accident, so they are threatened by an imminent long distance separation.

• Maxene Eigennman as Alicia Magdalena - Attended the PNPA with Robbie, with whom she falls in unrequited love, but their relationship remains platonic. Left PNPA a year before graduating, she currently works at NBI with Robbie and Steve.

Extended Cast

• Francine Prieto as Mrs.Smith
• Bing Davao as Matt Cordero
• Pooh as Barry
• Josh Ivan Morales as Denny
• Mark Jayssel Lucelo as Robin/X2O
• Miriam Quiambao as Aludra Andaya / Dra Ludrana dela Cruz
• Gaby Dela Merced as Alina Aquino
• Janice Huang as Asha
• Paolo Serrano as Angelo, NBI Agent
• Mark Gil as Tony Angeles
• Ronaldo Valdez as Socorro Morales/Supremo
• Francine Prieto as Mrs. Smith, buyer of Celine's Pre-school and Rx Member
• Marvin Raymundo as Daniel Magdalena
• Hanna Flores as Diane, Gwen's friend
• Hiyasmin Neri as Brittany, Gwen's friend
• Tibo Jumalon as Roy Corpus, New NBI Investigation
• Zoren Legazpi as Miguel, RX Manager
• Kitkat as Maggy, Gwen's new Friend

Special Participation

• Gloria Romero as Barbaba de Jesus, Celine's grandmother.
• James Aquino Yap as Michael Crisanto - The toddler son of Frank and Celine Crisanto.

Guest

• Angel Jacob as Gladys Sebastian
• Phebe Khae Arbotante as Young Gwen
• Joseph Bitangcol as Young Steve
• Izzy Canillo as Young Ringo
• Paul Salas as Young Frank (10 yrs. old)
• Carlo Lacana as Robbie (10 years old)
• Elijah Magundayao as Ringgo (8 years old)
• Fred Payawan as Bogs
• Bam Romana as Tonzy
• David Chua as August
• Franco Daza as Justine
• Nico Ibaviosa as Justine's brother
• Ketchup Eusebio
• Shekinah dela Cruz as Myrene
• Antonette Rose Lacaba as Gwenneth
• Dionne Monsanto as Kinnah Asistio
• Tess Antonio as police informant
• Wendy Valdez as Aurora
• Yogo Singh as Robbie (5 years old)
• Erika Padilla as Mandy, Cristina's friend
• Randolf Stamatelaky as guy singing in party
• John Medina as syndicate member
• Irene Magalab as Kaye Ramirez, Aurora's sister
• V-Jay Barrientos as Juan
• A-Jay Barrientos as Lovely
• Kristel Fulgar as Young Aludra
• Angel Sy as Young Alina
• Celine Lim as Young Asha
• Cassandra Ponti as RX Member
• Amy Austria as Ursula Angeles
• Jhong Hilario
• Bojo Molina as Waldo, an ex-convict and Socorro's right hand man
• Christian Vasquez as Young Socorro/Supremo

Production Crew

Production Crew

• Musical Director: Jessy Lasaten and Carmina Cuya
• Production Designer: Nancy Arcega
• Lighting Directors: Alfredo Hernando, Ferdie Marquez and David Siat
• Master Editors: Jesus Mendoza Jr. and Ray-an Ludwig Peralta
• Head Writer/Writer: Arlene Tamayo
• Executive Producer: Ms.Emarald C. Suarez
• Production Manager: Dagang Vilbar
• Executive In Charge Of Creative: Rondel P. Lindayag
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Roldeo T. Endrinal
• Directors: Dondon Santos, Trina N. Dayrit and Erick Salud

Reception

Theme song

For the third time, Gary Valenciano sings the theme song for a series which stars Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson. The other two are Tayong Dalawa and Sana Maulit Muli. The title of the series was derived from the song, "Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo", which was originally sung by Rey Valera and covered by Gary Valenciano for the show. Other songs featured on the show are "Lapit" (lit. "Closeness") by Yeng Constantino and "Pagka't Mahal Kita" (lit. "Because I Love You") by Bugoy Drilon.

Launch

Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo was launched as one of the ABS-CBN offering for the 60th celebration of Filipino Soap Opera ("Ika-60 taon ng Pinoy Soap Opera"). Together with series such as Rubi, Tanging Yaman, Habang May Buhay, Kokey @ Ako, Magkano Ang Iyong Dangal?, Agua Bendita and a series of Precious Hearts Romances Presents seasonal episodes. The shows were launched during the ABS-CBN Trade Launch for the first quarter of 2010, entitled "Bagong Simula" (New Beginning).

See also

• List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
• Pinoy Big Brother: Double Up
• Dahil May Isang Ikaw

External Links

• Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo free episodes on-demand at TFCNow
• Kung Tayo'y Kagkakalayo