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The Glorious Mystery That is Angel Aquino

By Sarge Lacuesta
Dec 14, 2018
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Angel Aquino doesn’t have a Facebook account, and she’s not a regular poster on Instagram. A few weeks ago, she made up for that sorry social presence with a movie trailer—not even the full movie, mind you—that broke the internet so much that all that traffic must have showed up in satellite heat maps.

“I hear the trailer picked up 17 million views on one platform,” she says, and adds, “—I don’t know where, but that’s what they say.” She was also told that the app hit number one on both iOS and Android stores on the day the movie streamed.

But that’s as far as she knows, or cares to know. After all, she was born well before the internet, and is of that generation that arguably still understands what a private life really is.

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It really is quite poetic, then, that she broke said internet with something quite private and intensely personal: an open-mouthed kiss, delivered with such enthusiasm and obliviousness that audiences could do nothing but gawp, equally open-mouthed, before attempting to decide whether they wished they were the recipient of that kiss, or wished they were Angel herself—because who doesn’t want to look an entire generation younger? 

But we must stop talking about age, because there are other things to talk about. She has things to discuss other than clicks and hits. Things on her mind that are more relevant and important than Facebook and social media and self-image, words on her lips that are more powerful and more jolting than a kiss—even a kiss from Angel Aquino.

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From topmost: Navy top by Labo.Art (P5,200); white shirt by Niu (P8,800); green dress by Labo.Art (P4,230); checkered coat by Aeron (P42,000); green coat by Aeron (P39,000); all at Tryst, Power Plant Mall

In this story: Photographs by Joseph Pascual • Styling by Clifford Olanday • Makeup by Renen Garcia • Hair by Roda • Production assistants Elyssa Christine Lopez and Ednalyn Magnaye Garcia

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