It was an impromptu homage to their beloved Jaclyn Jose at the Arlington Memorial Chapels in Araneta Avenue, Quezon City.
There was mobilization, though.
And they all came on the second night of the wake.
Led by Coco Martin, the whole cast and crew of ABS-CBN's "Batang Quiapo" were there to give their last respects to the most cherished colleague on the set and the most versatile thespian onscreen.
Coco said that it was Jaclyn who apparently was oriented of the raw business politics who paved the way for his entrance to the most anticipated broadcast network in the country.
Although Martin was already famous worldwide because of his exposure in the internationally acclaimed movies of maverick filmmaker and producer Brillante Ma. Mendoza such as "Tirador," "Kinatay," "Serbis," among others, ABS-CBN added splendor and dimension to his career.
It's because the Star Network spends a lot on its marketing and advertising not excluding its engagement in the nitty gritty of the tricky game in the media business for supremacy.
This Coco knew best being as a clever player in the ordinary quotidian in and out of showbiz.
Without much ado, Martin signed up with the Kapamilya Network and his world was never the same again.
He soared to higher heights of popularity if not power to influence and move the masses.
For this, he was thankful and indebted to Jaclyn.
That is why his eulogy for Jose was quite endearing, passionate and lengthy.
"Ang haba ng speech ni Coco pero malaman (His valedictory address was long but substantial)," observed progressive entertainment writer and editor Art Tapalla.
The chapel was filled to the rafters, said Art, and it was witness to the historical travesty of poetic justice in the painful struggles of the common men, on and off-screen, delineated and embodied by Coco in an interplay of diverse personas and interests, self-vested or otherwise.
Jaclyn is already history and she is etched in the hearts and minds of Coco and the Filipino people after she died of myocardial infarction or a heart attack as delivered in an official announcement by her daughter, actress Andi Eigenmann.
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