Ashley Ortega's young but impressive career

CALL her all sorts of appellations — but never a starlet.

Ashley Ortega admits to getting affected the most when netizens address her as nothing more than way below an actress.

It was only after the Kapuso star got booted out of Pinoy Big Brother (PBB)'s Bahay ni Kuya was she all the more inundated with a wave of harsh criticisms thrown her way.

Ashley says that even prior to her short-lived PBB stint, she in fact was in the crosshairs of socmed bashings. These grew all the more during her post-eviction.

"Before I simply wouldn't give a hoot if people bashed me. But what finally got me was the 'starlet' thing," she laments.

No other actress who has just been around for too short a time can deliver with much aplomb as Ashely Ortega. PHOTO FROM INSTAGRAM/ASHLEYORTEGA

She wishes people wouldn't be too hard on her considering: "I've only been in this business for five years. There's still a lot to do, a room for improvement."

Good thing, Ashley has earned quite a sizeable number of netizens who believe her stature has leveled up.

This group cites Ashley's successive projects on GMA (from "Legal Wives" to "Pulang Araw," and in between) with variegated roles she can sink her teeth into — and yes, no other actress who has just been around for too short a time can deliver with much aplomb and astonishing grace.

The longer ones included!

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LET'S do real talk — we still can't get enough of Nora Aunor.

With lingering pain that refuses to go away, perhaps a way to slough it off is to watch her come alive in the movies.

By experiencing her even onscreen is to immortalize her while paying tribute to her legacy.

The country's Superstar and National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts had left behind three significant films awaiting commercial exhibition.

With all three bearing single-word titles, these are "Kontrabida" and "Laro," both helmed by Adolf Alix Jr., and "Ligalig" by Toppel Lee.

In Laro, Nora was said to have fearlessly done menage à trois scenes with leading men Martin del Rosario and Mark Newmann.

Certainly not one to back out from doing sizzling scenes way past her age and stature, Nora had heaped praises from Martin who she had given moral support.

Alix is eyeing an earlier playdate for Kontrabida; while Martin says they might settle for an October showing of Laro in time for Nora's showbiz anniversary.

Lee's horror flick Ligalig has yet to find its opening date.