Lola Gets takes on TikTok, spreads good vibes
Veteran actress Gina Pareno recreates trending
videos on TikTok, reaches 800K followers in 3 months
From rising to stardom as Darna in the 1960s to receiving local
and international accolades for lead and supporting movie roles in the 2000s,
veteran actress Gina Pareño – Lola Gets to many – has reinvented herself this
year, rising as one of TikTok’s unexpected sensations.
Dancing
through challenges and eliciting smiles and laughter all around, she has
garnered more than 4 million views, more than 4.4 million likes, and close to
900,000 followers.
Lola
Gets started on TikTok in May 2020 via @yourlolagets, with encouragement from her
granddaughter. “I was bored at home. It was like I was going to get crazy. Then
I saw my granddaughter doing TikTok,” says Ms. Pareño. “My first video that
went viral was the Wipe It Down (and Mirror) challenge. We now have 4 million
views!”
“Whenever
she sees me dancing or putting on makeup, she checks me out in my room. She
would ask me what I was doing. She always says she wants to also join and that
she also wants to dance. That’s when we realized, why not let her join TikTok?”
says granddaughter Angelika Shayne.
For
Gina, TikTok has been a platform where she can express her feelings, actions,
and emotions naturally. With the
intention to bring happiness to others, she relays that TikTok is about fun,
laughter and good vibes.
Lola
Gets has since gamely taken on other dance challenges, including My Chinita
Girl, Binibining Marikit, Takata, Maria, Love Story, and Selfie
Song, among others. She also shares down time moments while on set, including
fun times with her director, Joshua Maghirang.
“We’ve
experienced a lot of stress and anxiety during the first few months of
quarantine. With all our limitations, here comes Gina Pareño as Lola Gets and
viola, we created her TikTok account,” says Joshua.
#AskWednesday
Lovable,
hilarious and unpretentious, Lola Gets has endeared herself more to fans of all
ages when she started #AskWednesday on TikTok. “We did #AskWednesday so my
followers have something to look forward to,” she says.
With
#AskWednesday, followers get to ask questions to Lola Gets on the comment
section every mid-week. The next Wednesday, Lola Gets uploads a video answering
some of the questions and greeting fans.
The
comments would come from followers all over the world, mostly Filipinos, and
would range from questions about Lola Gets herself, to anything and everything
under the sun.
Capping
off her interview, Lola Gets left an inspiring message for her followers and
fellow creators on TikTok. She is grateful for the love and support from the
community as she embarks on her new creative journey that starts on TikTok.
Ms.
Pareno was born in 1949 as Geraldine Acthley to a Filipino mother and German
American father. She started her acting career in the 1960s and has since then
gained local and international recognition for roles in award-winning movies
such as Kubrador (2006), Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo (2006) and Serbis (2008). She has likewise played
memorable roles on television. Lola Gets was a role she played for a television
series in 2009, Tayong Dalawa.
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