After a long vacation, GMA 7 actress Marian Rivera will finally return to television, in a new drama series tentatively titled “Catarina.”
She was last seen in the Kapuso primetime series “Temptation of Wife,” which wrapped up in April.
When she renewed her contract with telecommunications company Smart Talk ‘N Text last October, she hinted that the coming drama show would pair her with a new Kapuso leading man. Marian’s new partner turned out to be younger heartthrob Alden Richards.
She said that a sit-com was also in the works. “Apart from comedy, it will also show off my dancing (skills),” she volunteered.
Although she regards herself as a whiz in the kitchen, a cooking show is not on her wish list. She’s also not keen on hosting her own show for now although there was a plan for her to join the GMA 7 noontime show “Eat Bulaga.” (She is now managed by Triple A, the same team behind Tape Inc., the producers of “Eat Bulaga”).
She insisted that she was aware of her strengths and weaknesses as an entertainer and would rather focus on drama and comedy.
MARIAN Rivera thinks the wedding is delayed “because people keep asking about it.”
She recently went out of her comfort zone, producing the movie “Kung-Fu Divas” with Ai-Ai de las Alas.
“I learned a lot. We are thinking of releasing it abroad, in Cambodia, where my shows are aired,” she said. There is talk of a sequel, too.
It seems Marian is raring to go regional.
She was nominated for best actress at the recently concluded Asian TV Awards for “Temptation of Wife,” together with fellow Kapuso, Lorna Tolentino (for “Pahiram ng Sandali”).
She recently won best drama actress for “Temptation of Wife” at the local movie press’ Star Awards for TV.
As a telecom endorser, Marian had to overcome her initial trepidation of social media and joined Instagram.
Instagram bashers
She has a simple way of dealing with Instagram bashers: “Report, delete, block, goodbye!”
As for posers who pretend to be her online—like the parody Twitter account that skewers local celebs with relish—she hollered, playfully: “Bakla sila! (They’re gay!)”
Seriously now, she’s pretty game and doesn’t mind the posers “for as long as they are just having fun and are not hurting me and other people.”
That was precisely why she joined Instagram, so that the public would know her real personality. “I am able to show the real Marian to my fans. I’m able to share personal photos—with my father, mother and grandmother, people I love deeply. I hope they would see that I have simple dreams. That I love to cook.”
Her big dream is to enrol in a culinary school. She often whips up Filipino delicacies like sinigang, kaldereta and adobo for boyfriend Dingdong Dantes.