It always should be a cause for
celebration with fans of the Philippine entertainment industry whenever one of
its many talents receives an accolade from abroad. And in addition to the fandom
of the lucky award-winning star, it is their respective agencies, or better yet
their mother networks that count the showbiz personality in question as part of
their artists’ stable, that would be pleased at the added glory to their
branding. For instance, GMA7 artist Alden Richards in August was feted in the
2019 Seoul International Drama Awards. It was a win of sorts for the Kapuso
network, but the Kapamilyas have their own 2019 Korean award-winner as well.
According to The Philippine Star, Maja Salvador of ABS-CBN tele-seryes “Wildflower”
and “The Killer Bride” has won a Best Actress Award for the inaugural Asia
Contents Awards in South Korea. This media awards ceremony was the brainchild
of the annual Busan International Film Festival and was held Sunday, October 6.
Salvador received her ACA for her role as the vindictive anti-heroine
protagonist of “Wildflower,” which ran weekday afternoons on ABS-CBN from 2017
to 2018. Several key persons in the show’s production team also received
nominations at the Asian Contents Awards.
In addition to Salvador, Raymund
Ocampo and ABS-CBN Production Manager Maru Benitez got nods at the ACAs with
the nomination of “Wildflower” for Best Asian Drama, though it did not win at
the ceremony. Ocampo was the primary director of the afternoon revenge drama,
and he, Benitez and Maja all flew to Busan over the previous weekend to attend
the event. Accompanying them was Salvadors non-showbiz boyfriend Rambo Nuñez.
For her Best Actress Award acceptance speech, Maja thanked the ACAs for the
honor, describing her role as Lily Cruz/Ivy Aguas as a challenge and pleasure.
She called her award a great honor for the Philippines.
While already established as a
skill actress with versatile roles, Maja Salvador hit upon a definitive
typecasting for herself, starting with ABS-CBN’s “Wildflower.” In this and
currently-running primetime tele-serye “The Killer Bride,” she has codified the
archetype of a normal sweet-natured and innocent person who, after being
subjected to physical, emotional and psychological hardships by hostile people
and society around her, is twisted into a un-empathetic and gleefully malevolent
avenger of her past miseries, but as a result has somewhat become no less
monstrous than the guilty parties she targets.
As stated, Maja can be seen on “The
Killer Bride,” Monday to Friday evenings on ABS-CBN. While her Asia Contents
Awards Best Actress is her first from them, the actress has already proven
herself in several other international awards ceremonies.
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