New finds make their bid for stardom

PRESSMAN. On the brink of “something” bigger?

Each show biz season, literally hundreds of starlets do their best—and worst—to get their big, starmaking break, but only a happy, hopeful handful get what they’ve desperately prayed for. This year, those lucky and plucky few include:

JC Santos, who’s getting his big break on the new ABS-CBN soap, “Till I Met You,” costarring with no less than the popular JaDine love team of James Reid and Nadine Lustre.

You can bet that scores of other “deserving” male starlets were angling for that plum “introducing” slot, but it went to JC, so he must have something special that made the show’s casters and producers decide on him.

For her part, Kim Domingo was plucked out of the cast of “Bubble Gang” to play the other woman on Heart Evangelista and Dennis Trillo’s recent teleserye, “Juan Happy Love Story.”

Kim was gifted with the attention-calling role due to her promising combination of beauty and sexiness, which she put to good use to “confuse and seduce” Dennis.

It takes a lot to distract a male lead player from the famous and fabulous charms of Heart Evangelista, so Kim had her work cut out for her to make Dennis’ “distraction” believable.

Screen seductresses

In the new film, “Camp Sawi,” other screen seductresses are being showcased, hopefully to their individual and/or group advantage. The sex comedy stars Andi Eigenmann, Bela Padilla, Yassi Pressman and Arci Muñoz.

Some of them, like Andi, have already achieved star status, but others are still in need of that extra “push” to clearly stellar status, so the movie could be a key career move for them.

In Yassi’s case, the push comes at the right time, because her recent vehicles have indicated that she could be on the brink or edge of “something” bigger.

Aside from “Camp Sawi,” Yassi is currently being featured as a young journalist on “Ang Probinsyano.” Will her recent and current vehicles take her “higher and higher?” The jury’s still out on that one, but here goes “something!”

For her part, Sandara Park is no newcomer, but she’s back in local viewers’ purview once more as a celebrity judge on ABS-CBN’s new talent search, “Pinoy Boyband Superstar.”

The Korean charmer’s first experiences in local show biz weren’t all that happy, prompting her to fly to her home country to make it in the music biz there, with much better results.

Now that she’s regionally popular, we hope that Sandara’s bid to revive her star status here will be successful. Why not a new film starrer for her after her juror duties on her new talent tilt ends?

Success and acceptance the second time around are even sweeter, and should be hers to savor!