Monica Cuenco, lead star of the musical play Bituing Walang Ningning, is now on TV.
She appears as Iska in Kuya Soju’s widely read online novel Iska Ispiritista, now a weeklong series on TV5’s Wattpad Presents.
For her debut appearance on television, Monica has for a leading man, TV’s heartthrob, Martin Escudero. The actor recently bagged the Gawad Tanglaw Award for Best Performance by an actor for his work in TV5’s drama series, Positive.
In Iska Ispiritista, directed by Soxy Topacio, Monica is Iska, an orphan girl who possesses a third eye and can see “dead people”. Although Iska hates her gift, what with the constant ambush of ghosts who are asking for her help, Iska’s special gift proves to be handy one day.
The story begins when the snooty Donya Dora knocks on Iska’s door, and claims that the property left to Iska and her siblings by their deceased parents is now hers. Donya Dora tells Iska that her father pawned their house and lot to her and had defaulted on payment a long time ago. As a last gesture of kindness, she is willing to forego her claim if within six months, Iska can return the P1 million her father owed her.
TV5’s primetime kilig mini-serye Wattpad Presents is now on its fifth season as it continues to give the young and young at heart with top rated rom-com stories from the biggest online writing Wattpad.
Wattpad Presents: Iska Ispiritista airs from Dec. 7 until Dec. 11 at 9 p.m. on TV5.