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Quality over quantity

Cherrie Pie has nothing against the networks. In fact, she seems to be a big favorite of ABS-CBN. She has starred in almost all of its major teleseryes and worked with nearly all of its major young talents, including Claudine Barretto in Mula sa Puso and Saan Ka Man Naroroon, Judy Ann Santos in Sa Puso Ko, Iingatan Ka and Heart Evangelista in Hiram na Mukha. Currently, she is starring opposite Jericho Rosales and Sarah Geronimo in Pangarap na Bituin, a musical teledrama inspired by the Sharon Cuneta film Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas.

In Pangarap na Bituin, Cherrie Pie plays Alberta, Jericho's aunt and manager. Her character is overprotective, controlling and, to a point, domineering, although, as Cherrie Pie puts it, "she's coming from something. She's a villain, but she's not the typical villain in that she's evil. She's shrewd, scheming, manipulative and two-faced, but for a reason, which is that she cares about Terrence (Jericho). She has the best of intentions, but she's doing things the wrong way."

Cherrie Pie says she's always been very comfortable with ABS-CBN. What she wonders about sometimes is the wisdom of turning out stars in vast numbers without really giving them time to develop and grow. "One thing different about this new generation [of stars] is that they're network-based," says Cherrie Pie. "You do one reality show, and after that, you have 20 or 30 new stars. And sometimes, because of that, their training is not as tedious or as solid. That's why you have talents whose careers burn out after only a few years."