MUSIC AND STARDUST
t was mid-morning, and Bret Jackson I has anti-eyebags patches under his eyes in preparation for a shoot. He lounges comfortably but is full of enthusiasm with his answers. This is a man who looks and feels ready for the future, a far cry from the self-conscious teenager the Filipino public first got to know through Pinoy Big Brother Teens.
The community quarantine restrictions didn’t affect him as much socially, he says, because he was used to living by himself, but being by himself also gave way to his a-ha moment. “It’s been a lot,” he says. “The pandemic kind of made me think about a lot of things. My dad was living here in Manila. I was working and supporting him for a long time but then I just realized that he’s getting older and I don’t want him to live in Manila anymore. I want him to live by the beach, be able to relax and kind of like spend time just enjoying himself. I
