Award-winning actress Cherry Pie Picache not compensated enough?

(INTRO) Ms. Cherry Pie Picache is one of the most awarded actresses of her generation. Last year she won two Best Actress awards during the awards season – the Golden Screen Awards from the Entertainment Press Society and the Gawad Urian from the Manunuri – for her work in “Foster Child.”

Doesn’t she get tired of winning awards?

“I think getting an award is one of the best or wonderful things that could happen to an actor. Winning an award means you are being appreciated for your hard work or a good job that’s why it feels good to win an award. When it comes to acting, I really do it for passion and if an award comes along, I guess that’s one fulfilling moment,” says the award-winning actress, who’s playing an important role in “Tayong Dalawa,” the newest ABS-CBN teleserye that will premiere this January.

The past two years, it’s not only in the local shores where Cherry Pie had been reaping awards. Even in the international film festivals, her mettle as an actress has not gone unnoticed.

But more than the prestige that the awards bring to her, Cherry Pie jokes, she also hopes to get more decent compensation for the good work that she’s been giving.

“At times, I feel embarrassed with the awards. Not that I am not proud of them but I sure hope that I could get more compensation, I mean, a higher pay. Hindi naman uso dito sa atin na pag nanalo ka ng award puwede kang magtaas ng presyo. Baka kung gawin mo iyon, baka wala nang kumuha sa iyo. Pero kidding aside, sinasabi ko okey na ako sa prestige. Gusto ko rin naman ng cash ngayon. Sana ma-compensate ng cash ‘yung prestige na nakukuha ko,” she says.

But Cherry Pie was also quick to point out that she should just accept the blessings because good roles and good opportunities are hard to come by. The years 2007 and 2008 were very good ones for her. She garnered critical acclaim here and abroad. “I would just like to savor the blessings that I have been given,” she says. Unlike Ms. Gina Pareno, who had been in showbiz for the longest time, who would have thought that the awards she’d been reaping now would come at her age. “On my part, I will just cherish the moment,” adds Cherry Pie, who plays the daughter of Gina Pareno in “Tayong Dalawa.”

It’s also not an issue with her if she only gets an acting nomination. Or she doesn’t get a nomination for an acting job that she believes she did well.

“As an actor, we know if we deserve to win or not. Honestly, sometimes, if I get nominated for a project which I feel I don’t deserve, I really ask, ‘Why?’ More or less I can say which project I am really proud of, or which one deserves recognition or appreciation. But I don’t mean to speak ill of my work because I treat each project well and I give it my best always.”

Cherry Pie is pleased to have been given the chance to work with Ms. Helen Gamboa who is making a TV comeback via “Tayong Dalawa,” which stars Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson and Jake Cuenca.

“She’s a very pleasant lady, very gracious. She takes good care of all us, not just the cast, but even the production staff as well. That’s why we all describe her as a very gracious lady. We don’t have any problem when it comes to work. She’s very diligent when it comes to work,” she describes her co-star.

“Even if she had a hiatus form her craft, you can still the fire and the passion in her, and how much she loves her work, her craft and how she misses acting.”

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Marian Rivera is still the favorite topic among writers—not only by those who like her, but also by those who abhor her and hate her like a plague.

Hers is a damn if you, damn if you don’t situation. We are sure you are aware of the negative publicity that has been hounding Marian these past weeks, not only with the issue regarding her alleged part in the breakup of Karylle and Dingdong Dantes, but also with her alleged “pagtataray” with some members of the press.

When Popoy Caritativo and his alagas Dennis Trillo, Mart Escudero and Marian Rivera, threw a belated Christmas party for the press, they (of course), did not invite some of the press people who were deemed “not friendly” or hostile towards Marian.

But then, we heard, that some press people who were not so kind with Marian, were also among those who were present at the said party.

One of them, who even labeled Marian as “Nega Star of the Year” when he appeared as one of the guests in the New Year’s Eve presentation of “Juicy” (hosted by Alex Gonzaga), was brimming with happiness from his seat as he won one of the many prizes up for grabs at the said party.

Ernie Pecho, one of the veteran movie scribes who called Marian “plastikada” and “Tupperware” at the presscon of “Desperadas,” supposedly told some writers who were invited to the said party to thank him.

“Kung hindi ko siya tinawag na plastikada, hindi sila magpa-party as some sort of damage control,” the veteran movie scribe was supposed to have said.

Well, everyone is entitled to his own opinion. We just find it odd that such matter of giving a party to share one’s blessings was given a different meaning just because they belong to the opposite side of the fence.

Marian and Dingdong, meanwhile, are set to start work on their new project for GMA 7 titled “Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang” to be directed by Bb. Joyce Bernal (of  “Marimar” and “Dyesebel” fame).