It’s difficult to set up a face to face interview time with Jennylyn Mercado. It’s damn near impossible, actually, with her schedule plotted out to the last minute-her week is entirely filled with tapings, rehearsals, and shoots; pushed in is some time for working out, and whatever precious little hours that remain free, will of course be spent with her seven-year-old son, Jazz.
Magazine Q&A’s are given to the hair and makeup shift, half of which is drowned out by the noise of the hair dryer. Jennylyn is as adaptible as she can be, however, and one can’t begrudge her hectic schedule as she has taken on the roles of two persons: mother and father.
In the past couple of years, the actress has become the newest romcom queen, a kind of young Julia Roberts, quirky and sassy with the right amount of vulnerability. Her turns in “maindie” films like English Only, Please, The Prenup, and Walang Forever, opposite male heartthrobs Derek Ramsay, Sam Milby, and Jericho Rosales respectively, have garnered her acting awards and a steady stream of work.
Jazz is growing up in a household of all women, and there is nothing untraditional about that. From a grandmother who took on the role of a single mother to her abandoned niece, to a mother who overcame childhood trauma with love and forgiveness, Jazz is not short on role models, nor does he lack in any satisfaction. “Huwag muna mag-asawa, mawawala sa akin,” Lydia says wistfully of her daughter. “Until I die, magkasama pa rin kami.” And at 29, Jennylyn Mercado has found her rhythm. It is now the rest of the world who has to try and keep up.
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