“WAG na lang, ok na ‘to.” This is the top actor Aga Muhlach’s answer to the question whether he’d be open to do a soap opera for television—the trend in show business these days. A number of his contemporaries from the eighties and nineties have done so—Richard Gomez, Ariel Rivera, John Estrada—but as he says, he’s satisfied with the work that he does. He has a weekly sitcom, Ok Fine ‘To Ang Gusto Nyo, and films one movie a year, usually to box-office acclaim.

Muhlach has nothing more to prove anyway, if it’s just about the fame that a soap opera can bring. Neither does he need one to establish himself as a competent actor—he has trophies from every local award-giving body. Nonetheless, the reason why the dramatic actor refuses any offer to do a teleserye—and there are a lot—seems to come from an artistic point of view.