Author: Jerry Donato

BY JERRY DONATO Exciting and overwhelming were Matteo Guidicelli’s words to describe the official announcement of him as the new Pedro Penduko and the privilege of playing the Filipino folk hero. “The three of us, we’ve been very eager to start,” said the actor, in a recent media call, who, aside from himself, was referring to film director Jason Paul Laxamana and stunt director Sonny Sison. “With direk Sonny, we’ve been training for (the past) two months now, yung mga fight scenes namin, physical conditioning.” Matteo got wind of the good news that he got the role a few months ago but his team…