Director Maura Gia Samonte first met Diana at Robbie Tan’s Seiko office. The young girl told the director that she was being offered 1,500 dollars to be an entertainer in Japan. Mau told her to grab the offer. “It was my way of saying she would have a hard time making it big,” Mau recalls. “I felt she didn’t have a fighting chance because Rosanna Roces was still reigning that time. That was one of my miscalculations in life because now, she has several TV shows, endorsements, and she had made a few number of films.”
Launched by Seiko Films in 2002 in the movie Itlog, Diana went on to star in a series of skin flicks—Bakat, Kasiping and Liberated, Part 1 and 2.
In October 2002, she made quite a stir when she posed in a skimpy bikini on an EDSA flyover, in a pictorial for FHM Philippines. The photo shoot earned an ire of puritans but garnered maximum publicity for both Diana and the magazine.
Mau Samonte says Diana isn’t exactly his idea of a sex goddess. But he may represent the minority view. “Diana can be so many things to so many people,” Mau himself admits. “I know a guy who always tells me, ‘I’m only for Diana Zubiri.’ Others find her attractive maybe because of her simple beauty.”
Perhaps that’s exactly the message Diana Zubiri is sending—that the simple beauty of the girl next door is completely sexy, too.
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