John Lloyd & Bea: A loveteam for all seasons, for all reasons

MANILA, Philippines - Fate brings them together...Fate tears them apart...Will faith in love be strong enough to keep them together?

The blurb for their latest movie, Star Cinema’s Miss You Like Crazy, might as well be the testimony to the loveteam of John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo who have been brought together by fate and been seemingly sealed together by fate.

As in the case of such immortal loveteams as Carmen Rosales and Rogelio dela Rosa, Nida Blanca and Nestor de Villa, Gloria Romero and Luis Gonzales, Susan Roces and Eddie Gutierrez, Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon, there’s no romantic love but only pure friendship between John Lloyd and Bea off camera, and yet their loveteam ticks and clicks because on the screen, they seem so real and so true, and that’s all that matters.

You can’t help but fall in love with them, whether on the small screen where their love started to bloom or on the big screen where it continues to flourish. Theirs is a loveteam for all seasons, for all reasons.

Bea was only 14 when she was paired with John Lloyd in the ABS-CBN soap Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, with Lorna Tolentino among their co-stars, followed by a few more including Maging Sino Ka Man Books 1 and 2 and I Love Betty La Fea. Before Miss You Like Crazy, they starred in three movies, all for Star Cinema, namely Close to You, Now That I Have You and One More Chance.

They have been paired with other partners, Bea with Piolo Pascual and others and John Lloyd with Sarah Geronimo and others, but their fans clamor for more of them together. That’s why the title of their new starrer is really apt. Their fans miss John Lloyd and Bea like crazy.

Directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, Miss You Like Crazy will surely rekindle in moviegoers the same beautiful feeling nurtured by previous John Lloyd-Bea starrers.

“I’m happy to be working with direk Cathy again,” said John Lloyd.

“Direk Cathy knows very well John Lloyd and my working habits,” said Bea. “Sanay na kami sa isa’t-isa.”

Also starring Maricar Reyes, Miss You Like Crazy is direk Cathy’s first project since she lost her husband in a freak biking accident in Baguio City last year.

In the story, John Lloyd and Maricar play sweethearts until Bea, while on holiday from her work as a hotel front-desk officer in Kuala Lumpur, comes into the picture. Bea and John Lloyd meet and match, only for fate to step in and bring them apart. Then they meet again, only for John Lloyd to find out that it isn’t possible for their love story to start all over again because fate is playing tricks on them. But then, true love triumphs in the end somehow.