MANILA — Liza Soberano said she and former boyfriend and longtime onscreen partner Enrique Gil remain on good terms, but acknowledged that they have grown more distant as they move on from their relationship and their identity as a popular love team.
In the vlog of ABS-CBN News broadcaster Karen Davila, Soberano talked about her relationship with her former love team partner.
"We're okay. Our relationship ended on good terms, and even after that, we were still maintaining open communication. But, I would say over the past year, we haven't really been talking as much. I think ever since I made that final official announcement, with the breakup and everything," she said.
Soberano also believes that their fans just need time to get used to the fact that they are no longer a love team.
"We also wanted to give each other the space to kind of move on and find ourselves. And so, I think we're only able to really do that once there's an actual separation of the identities, because for so long we're LizQuen, you know. But now it's Liza and Quen, and I think it takes some time getting people used to that," Soberano said.
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LizQuen, Soberano and Gil's former love team, was one of the popular and iconic love teams in the Philippines's show business.
Asked what she learned from that whole experience, Soberano replied: "The best thing about being in a love team is that you have someone to share the pressure with. Looking back at it now, I was never really nervous, or I never felt pressured when going into projects, because mayroon kang person to kind of lean on. May kasama ka going through it. So that was very nice to have. I think it was nice to just have someone to kind of lean on and share that pressure with and the experiences with."
She added: "The hard thing about being in a love team, I think, is also that very same thing. Like, because you are a team, every decision has to be vetted by the both of you. Kailangan agree kayong pareho. And sometimes there are things that you you don't personally feel like is beneficial to your own individual career, and the other person will think it's beneficial to them. Pero you both have to do it anyway, because you're in a love team. And so I think, in that sense, nagiging limiting siya.
"But there's definitely things about it that are very beautiful. I think one thing that I realized about the Filipino people through being in a love team is how much Filipinos love love, which is actually so nice. It's so interesting. Like, Filipinos always get kilig over seeing people just being so in love. And I think being able to appreciate love in its rawest form is such a beautiful thing too.
"But, like I said again, there's also, when it's too much, it can be an invasion of privacy as well. And so finding that right balance, while being in a love team, is always difficult, especially when you're growing up in front of the whole country, but it was a fun time."
Soberano was one of the biggest stars in local show business when she decided to venture into the unknown and in 2022 she moved to the US to pursue her dream in Hollywood.
Now, Soberano stars in DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” with H.E.R.. which is now showing in Philippine theaters.
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