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Guess what?: Acha lives with AIDS in new movie
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span class="inline inline-left">Kapanlagi.comJAKARTA: Actress Acha Septriasa says playing the role of a person living with HIV/AIDS in her latest movie, Nada Untuk Asa (Nada for Asa), has been a huge challenge.
In the movie, Acha must stay optimistic even in the face of her disease. 'Acting as someone with such an illness is not easy, especially when you have to look like a healthy person but you're not,' she said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Acha, who won Best Actress at the 2012 Indonesian Film Festival, said she watched a lot of YouTube videos to find out how persons living with HIV/AIDS managed their health.
'They need to take medicine every 12 hours and I needed to know how they usually felt after taking their medication,' Acha said.
She added that she hoped the movie would be educational, and could help persons living with HIV/AIDS find greater acceptance in society.
