Josh treats film crew to lechon
Posted by Mai on August 9th, 2007
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Josh treats film crew to lechon
By Edith Regalado
Thursday, August 9, 2007
MT. DIWALWAL, Compostela Valley – What can $260 buy? Lots of lechon (roast pig) and lots of beer.
Hollywood star Josh Hartnett wanted to know what constituted a typical Filipino feast. When told that lechon and the local beer were enough, he took out 13 pieces of $20 bills from his pocket and threw an impromptu party for the local and foreign production crew of his new film as well as the Philippine Army security detail assigned to him on his last night here.
Hartnett, who went on location shooting at a gold-rush site on Mt. Diwalwal for the $18-million detective thriller “I Come with the Rain,†gave the feast as a way of thanking Filipinos for their hospitality.
Hartnett egged Bryan Catoera, owner-driver of the black Isuzu Trooper used by the actor throughout his six-day stay here, to get the party started, as shooting for the film was packing up Tuesday night.
“I told him lechon and San Miguel beer and he immediately got from his pocket 13 pieces of $20 bills to be used to buy two lechon at P4,000 each and five cases of San Miguel,†Catoera told The STAR shortly before the small get-together started Tuesday night at the dining hall of the Pink House Hotel where Hartnett and the rest of the production crew of Central Films Productions were billeted.
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