Is Barbie Forteza’s, my favorite relatively young actress, career has the possibility to go bust?
Let me answer the question later. But first, let me answer why I adore Forteza first?
I believe that this Kapuso loyalist is one fine, if not one the most talented actresses in the roster of talents currently being groomed in Kapuso talent factory.
Film directors, namely Antoinette Jadaone and Jerold Tarog, are vocal about their desire to have Forteza in their future film projects.
Even the fiery and often times ferocious to a fault fandom collectively billed as Noranians, they know that this GMA darling cannot be simply dismissed or frowned upon knowing the fact that her performance, together with that of the superstar Nora Aunor’s, in Derrick Cabrido’s Tuos, received praises and recognition.
Of course, a little cause of concern to most of her fans, if we talk about the state of her career, is the nagging reality that despite all the heaps of praises of her being a force to reckon with in terms of acting, to a score a movie that will reign supremely in the cinemas continues to be an elusive dream.
Most of the time, Forteza played the lead in convoluted and mawkish melodramas. Perhaps that was their way to push her marketability and versatility as an actress.
Now, it quite a puzzlement with the announcement that not only is she set to star but they have already started taping for the television incarnation of a Snooky Serna-Maricel Soriano movie of yore, Anak ni Biday versus Anak ni Waray, which also starred former movie queens Gloria Romero and the late Nida Blanca.
This Serna-Soriano starrer was one of the “bread-trip kind” and insignificant projects that the two did when they did not know any better and their fanatics and supporters did not mind for as long as it satisfied their idol cravings.
Frankly speaking, if the career planners of Forteza want her to further blossom and bloom, they should have realized and suggested to the powers that be, that some of the best artistic and film collaborations of La Serna and La Soriano were Mel Chionglo’s Teen Age Marriage, Ishmael Bernal’s The Graduates and Carlos Siguion Reyna’s Inagaw Mo Ang Lahat Sa Akin.
If these film classics were made reincarnated as the fresh projects of Barbie, then we all know that it will be a treat for all.
Thus, I cannot help but wonder, though Forteza and the rest of the cast are ecstatic with this forthcoming primetime comedy show, is there a possibility that her career goes bust with this latest caper of hers? My answer is as good as yours – Y-E-S.
Without a doubt, on the “boom” side of the career scale, is the devastatingly beautiful Bianca Umali.
All the public perception that she is nothing more but a starlet and whose claim to fame is being the significant other of Ruru Madrid, she may say good riddance and farewell to it all.
The young miss’s career is pushed to stellar heights as she headlines the HBO Asia series Half Worlds.
About to shoot their third season here in the Philippines, Half Worlds is a dark fantasy thriller that highlights the lives and denizens of an underground society comprising of mythical characters and creatures from Asian Folklore.
Umali will play the character of Alex, a half-human and half-engkanto. The maverick Mikhail Red directs whose film Dead Kids currently makes ripples and waves on Netflix.
Another Filipino actor, Sam Concepcion is also part of the series.
Thus, we no longer need to wonder, and it is a no brainer that Bianca Umali’s career is an affirmative boom, boom, boom!
