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Apparently, this lawmaker does not want to star in movies.
This, as a congressman appeals to the local movie and TV industry to stop depicting solons as on-screen villains.
Pampanga 3rd District Rep. Aurelio Gonzales Jr. has filed an Anti-Typecasting Resolution which seeks to minimize, prevent or stop typecasting members of the Congress as outlaws in movies and TV shows to prevent negative perception from the public.
“We are portrayed as drug lords, murderers, warlords, bakit ganun? Kaya kapag may nakakausap akong mga bata sabi sakin ganyan pala yang mga congressman, masasama,” Gonzales said in an interview with GMA News.
Gonzales' House Resolution 2140 has already been transmitted to the Committee on Public Information.
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, however, said that the resolution could violate public’s freedom of expression and right to know.
“The House resolution has a chilling effect of indirectly restraining the right of the public to know the acts of their government and to hold their leaders accountable,” MTRCB Chairperson Grace Poe Llamanzares said in a separate statement Tuesday.
Llamanzares added that it is beyond MTRCB’s authority to prohibit an idea or concept until such is translated into a motion picture or television program that transgresses legal provisions.
“An act that determines what the public may be permitted to know or to watch could be interpreted as a species of prior restraint,” she said.
The Philippines' top judge was due to testify at his impeachment trial on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to save his job, with President Benigno Aquino saying his ouster is key to an anti-corruption drive.
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