Inamin ng aktres na si Liza Soberano na nagugulat pa rin siya sa tuwing tinatawag siyang “Hope” ng ibang tao at sa isang panayam, naibahagi niya tila na-misunderstood siya ng mga tao sa kanyangnagdaang pahayag.
“It’s actually very surprising to me because now, when I go out, people call me Hope. I’ve been to concerts and stuff and people would scream ‘Hope! Hope!’ I love my name and everything, but now I was like, ‘Oh my god, I was so misunderstood,’” saad ni Liza.
Kuwento pa niya, marami sa mga netizens ang nagko-comment sa kanyang social media accounts at tinatanong kung bakit hindi pa rin siya nagbabago ng pangalan.
“Like, this is not what I want. I still want to be known as Liza,” dagdag niya.
Matatandaang matapos ang ilang taong pamamahinga nito sa showbiz ay muli siyang naging sentro nang usap-usapan dahil sa isang vlog na pinamagatang “This Is Me” at mapapanood sa kanyang YouTube channel.
“I know this was for my own good. It was to protect me and my career. But it was a career I had no say in. A career that in many ways wasn’t mine. I didn’t even choose the name Liza. It was chosen for me,” sabi ni Liza sa kanyang nakaraang vlog.
Paglilinaw ng dalaga, noong binanggit niya ito sa kanyang vlog ay hindi niya mini-mean na ayaw niya ang stage name.
“When I brought that up in my vlog, I was like, the name Liza wasn’t a name that I chose for myself. I wasn’t saying that I didn’t like it. I was just stating a fact. A lot of people don’t know that I didn’t choose that name,” paliwanag niya.
Nakadagdag rin daw siguro sa confusion ng mga tao ang kanyang naging controversial ad kung saan sinabi niyang “Call me Hope”.
“I feel like that kind of doubled down on that narrative but that’s not what I meant. We were trying to be kind of meta with it—when I’m an actress, when you know I’m a public figure, I’m Liza. And then there’s when I’m just being me or when I’m working on personal stuff or even like when I’m producing, directing, because I’m not the star. So, I was kind of trying to show people that there are two sides of me: there’s Liza and there’s Hope,” pagbabahagi ng dalaga.
