SAM MILBY CHASES HIS HOLLYWOOD DREAM

Written by adminFeatured News, News HighlightsFeb 4, 2012


By Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America Bureau
February 3, 2012

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – One of the Philippines’ most bankable Kapamilya star, singer/actor Sam Milby is now in New York to chase his Hollywood dreams.

In one of his Heartthrobs concerts last year, Sam Milby’s looks, talent and stage charm impressed a New York ABC Network TV executive who happened to be watching the show.
The TV executive then invited Milby for a meeting followed by screen tests and interviews.

Milby is making New York his temporary home so he could focus on auditioning for acting roles in US mainstream TV offered by numerous casting agents, thanks to the ABC TV executive.
Sam Milby said, “All emotions wrapped into one, nervous, excitement,siyempre nam-imi-miss sa Pilipinas, but most of all excited.”

Milby arrived from the Philippines Wednesday to move into his new fully-furnished apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

Milby had two pilot TV show auditions scheduled, just a day after he arrived from Manila – one for giant network ABC – makers of hit shows like Desperate Housewives, Greys Anatomy, and Lost.
The other is for CW TV network, known for shows like Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and 9-0-2-1-0.

Milby said, “My ultimate goal, of course, the whole point of me auditioning is to get into one of the pilot shows and not only to get into a pilot show to have that pilot show be picked up by the network to be put into full production.”

Leaving his lucrative career in the Philippines was not an easy decision for Milby.

Now he’s back to square one, after making it in the Philippine Showbusiness – he has accomplished a lot in the Philippines including an Emmy nomination for the teleserye “Impostor,” where he was the lead actor.

Milby said, “I have to take risks in life, you know what I mean, when I moved to the Philippines, wala naman akong trabaho nun eh, you know, I have no idea what I was getting myself into, with this I have an agency, I have good feedback naman, It’s just going by faith, you know, believing that something good will come out of this.”
The pressure to land a job in Hollywood may be high but Sam keeps himself grounded to the reality that the he may or not make it to Hollywood in just three months in the U.S.
Milby said, “Even if nothing happens, it’s still something good kasi, the experience you know, this is something that will help me grow as a person talaga, no matter what I’ll come out of this a different person and that’s a good thing.”

Milby says, if he makes it then he may stay longer in New York, if not, he will definitely come back again next year when pilot TV shows open its 2013 casting season.

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