From the time matinee idol Rogelio dela Rosa was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1957, the once definite line separating politics from show business began to blur. For albeit slowly in the decades that followed, dela Rosa’s successful transition seemed to have triggered a realization among other actors that their popularity can go well beyond the silver screen.

Of course, the best proof of this phenomenon is action star Joseph Ejercito Estrada’s rise to the highest seat in the land, notwithstanding his short-lived presidency.

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