“It’s been a long road to where we get to be front and center.”

So this is a card I’ve been trying to play for a long time.

It’s incredibly gratifying to be sitting here today."

(from left) Tito Manny (Joey Guila), Regina (Elena Juatco), Eugene (Eugene Cordero), Joe Valencia (Jo Koy), Tita Teresa (Tia Carrere), Tita Yvonne (Melody Butiu) and Susan (Lydia Gaston) in Easter Sunday, directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.

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“There’s millions of those movies made.

“Look at this room, look around right now this is America,” he continues.

“There’s white, there’s Black, there’s Asians.

(from left) Eugene (Eugene Cordero), Joe Valencia (Jo Koy) and Lou Diamond Phillips (as himself) in Easter Sunday, directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.

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[Easter Sunday] is specific.

Yeah, it’s a Filipino family, but it’s a Filipino family that lives in America.

And I’m also running for office.”

Easter Sundayis in theaters today.

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