When asked to give a closing message, Jeffrey shared a story about Liza, and revealed how she was actually lined up to audition for a really big role. "Who loves the character of Zendaya in [Spider-Man: Homecoming]?" he asks the audience. He goes on and says that Liza was actually offered to audition for that role!
"They reached out to her to audition [for the role of] Mary Jane, one of the most iconic characters. And she was not allowed because she had to do the same thing she was always doing," he narrated.
Jeffrey notes that it was Liza's contract with ABS-CBN that halted her from pursuing the role. According to him, a contract like Liza's, which entailed ten years of staying under the same management, "was unheard of anywhere else in the world."
"Imagine a Filipina actress was [the star in] one of the biggest Marvel movies in history. Imagine [if] she was Mary Jane, what that would do for Philippine entertainment," he adds.