MB:
Typecasting used to be a huge, insurmountable stumbling block to an actor’s rise to stardom. Recent events have proven this otherwise.
Back then, if one jumpstarted his career playing villain roles the way Bella Flores and Zeny Zabala cornered the market in the 1950s and ’60s and throughout the ’70s, it literally meant the end of whatever ambitions they had for stardom.
Happily, such a mindset has changed through the years. Producers point to a growing maturity on the part of audiences, who can now appreciate an actor for his talent and not just for his looks or what he had prior.
GMA Network is revolutionary in casting actors formerly known as contravidas in lead roles.
Glaiza de Castro as Grazilda, Jackie Rice in “Sisid,” and Bianca King in “Sinner or Saint” are recent beneficiaries of the network’s unorthodox policy in juggling roles.
Earlier, before the nation was shocked by her sex video scandal, there was Katrina Halili in “Magdusa Ka.”
Katrina, Glaiza, Jackie, and Bianca had been some of GMA’s resident contravidas before network took a second look at them and cast them in lead roles.
The move is apparently part of GMA’s efforts to build up as many lead stars as possible. It is a vision not shared by ABS-CBN, whose concept of lead stars is glamour minus the fangs.
Information Courtesy of MB / NESTOR CUARTERO
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