The Canadian-born Kitsch alleged that an airport officer threatened to send him back to Japan, his port of origin, because his passport had run out of pages. The officer, supposedly from the Philippine airport, also demanded that he be given an iPhone.
Bureau of Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon says the Friday Night Lights star might have confused the Philippines to Indonesia.
"I feel confident that Mr. Kitsch was mistaken in saying that his bad experience during his travel was in the Philippines," he said via an interview by ABSCBNNews.com.
Biazon also pointed out that authorities had found no customs or immigration records of Kitsch's visit to the country and that the Philippine government had not given any permits for location shooting for his movie "Savages," in contrast to what he said on the Letterman interview.
The Hollywood movie "Savages," being directed by the award-winning Oliver Stone and also starring John Travolta andUma Thurman, was actually filmed in Indonesia.
Biazon appeals to Kitsch to retract his statement if he has the chance.
"Unfortunately, the damage was done…In the meantime, Mr Kitsch, perhaps you can help us redeem our lost pride," Biazon said.
The Taylor Kitsch starrer "John Carter" is set to premiere in the US and the Philippines this Friday, March 9. It will have a red carpet premiere at the IMAX Theater of the SM Mall of Asia this Wednesday night, March 7.
Cross-published in Starmometer.com
Savages was filmed in Indonesia and not in the Philippines. Another Hollywood assholes actor.
ReplyDeletehe degrade philippines.... he is an actor but he dont know where his fuckin location? omg... ur film should be ban... hollywood asshole...
ReplyDeleteI am a Filipino thus i am open minded. we shouldn’t judge ppol juz by 1 mistake dey committed. Giv d guy a chanz 2 xplain himself. Considering he was jet lagged, rundown misin4md & confused coz d ques. was spontaneous, he might be clouded by his bad xperienz frm d airport. he didn’t cam 2 think dat david mentioned phil. instead of Indonesia. We shouldn’t be ill-mannered and criticizing ppol as if we’re better dan dem. D words thrown @ him r far mor offensive & demeaning. Prove dem wrong by words of wisdom.
ReplyDeleteNAIA was labelled as d worst airport in d world dat’s y our gov’t reactd dat way coz 8s another blow. Yes both of dem shud apologize 2 redeem the country’s image as well as theirs. Win-win right? Hu knows ds is a blessing in disguise 4 d country.
the Philippine gov't should make a move to totally BAN this film...it's not enough to clarify which location it was being film but the important is the reputation of the entire country..."GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES"
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