Between the time of his breakthrough and 1985, dela Cruz was announced as one of the supporting actors in another action film by Liliw Production "Tatak: Magnum" (1983) starring local actor Nelson Anderson who at the time was under a contract with them. It is unknown if dela Cruz filmed any scenes for the film, since he is not in the finished product. At the time, Anderson said he and dela Cruz were in talks for two projects. First the production house received the photos of a then-unknown Jean-Claude Van Damme, and were creating a film where Van Damme would have acted with both of them. The second came after Anderson introduced dela Cruz Italian neorealist films, they planned to make a dramatic characters based action comedy remake of Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1948). Both director Bobby A. Suarez and actress Marrie Lee said they were working with dela Cruz on a project that never materialized. According to Suarez, dela Cruz would have played his own version of Superman. There was a rumor that he did a film with fellow actor Palito who also had lead roles in spy films parodies. Palito said they would regularly perform live in sketches where both would wrestle and that they were simply guest in a film that he doesn't remember. According to both Eddie Nicart and Celing, dela Cruz worked at as an agent at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, where he would mostly be there to welcome foreigners, due to Cora Caballes' friendship with the head of the airport. Dela was authorised to carry a gun Fidel V. Ramos dela Cruz, who at the time was chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.