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Lee Joon Has Not Ruled Out Singing
Lee Joon has been focused on acting lately and it has paid off. His drama "Heard It Through The Grapevine" won best drama at the Baeksang Drama Awards. He was nominated for Best New Actor in a drama even though he lost that award to ZE:A's Im Si Wan, who won for his role in "Misaeng."
Even a nomination is an honor.
But the fact that his acting career is really taking off does not mean that Lee Joon has ruled out singing in the future.
In an interview with the Korean media outlet OSEN, her was asked how he felt about the comeback of the band MBLAQ. He performed with the five-member band MBLAQ from 2009 until his contract with the J. Tune Camp agency ended in Nov. 2014. He announced his departure from the group in Dec. 2014 to focus on his acting career.
"I wish MBLAQ the best," he said.
MBLAQ recently announced that they planned a comeback as a three-member group in June. When Lee Joon left, Thunder, another member, also left to focus on his own career.
"I haven't heard the song," said Lee Joon. "But I believe they will do well."
The fact that he no longer sings with MBLAQ does not mean he is done with singing. Previous statements that he made have been misinterpreted.
"What I meant to say was that I wanted to focus on acting for a while, not that I will be quitting singing for good," I'm not pleased with my acting yet, so I want to focus on that for the moment. Later, if I'm given the chance to sing, I will consider it."
He has wanted to act since he was in middle school. It was less a conscious choice than something he naturally gravitated toward.
"Instead of deciding that I would concentrate on becoming an actor, it just happened naturally. I've wanted to act since I was in middle school and in high school I went to classes to learn how to act. It just happened naturally."
Before his appearance as the idealistic chaebol in "Heard It Through The Grapevine," he won praise for his performance as a deranged barista in the drama Gap Dong" and as an overnight star his first film "Rough Play." For his role in "Rough Play," he won a Best New Actor award at the First Wildflower Film Awards.
The last episode of "Heard It Through The Grapevine" airs on June 2.
Lee Joon fanboys over EXO and calls them “oppa”
In an interview with OBS, former MBLAQ member Lee Joon has revealed his love for EXO.
When Lee Joon was questioned whether he has been paying attention to other actors around his age, he revealed that he has only had time to watch Im Siwan’s works. However, he also stated that if he has more time, he would love to watch EXO member D.O.’s performances, because he has heard a lot of good things about D.O.’s acting.
Later on, Lee Joon also revealed that he is the type to leave comments on news articles online, stating, “I would never leave anything negative – I support leaving positive and encouraging comments. I would also never leave comments on my own articles.”
He then said with a laugh, “Actually, I’ve commented on EXO’s articles before. When EXO got #1, I left a message saying Suho oppa is handsome. I felt good watching the amount of likes go up for my comment.”
source: koreaboo, kdramastars, obs news
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Date: 2015-05-29 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-29 09:47 pm (UTC)Joon oppa, you're handsome too lol
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Date: 2015-05-29 09:49 pm (UTC)LMAO He has time to do that but not to watch dramas. I can see your preferences lol
I stop watching "Heard It Through The Grapevine" so I could do a marathon when it ends. I hope is still good.
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Date: 2015-05-29 09:53 pm (UTC)joon continues to be flaw free. even his taste in exo members is good. give suho that love he deserves :')
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Date: 2015-05-29 10:10 pm (UTC)And YASSS his good taste in EXO members. =D
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Date: 2015-05-29 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-29 10:38 pm (UTC)you can try reading initial discussion posts i made here on omona, just check lee joon's tag
i would say it's good, goes rather deep in the way characters are portrayed, acting is good too. just it has 32 eps :p
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Date: 2015-05-30 01:55 am (UTC)Joon's character doesn't get much play in the first half of it but he gets more development in the second, and he's excellent, esp with Go Ah Sung. (that girl will be the next Gong Hyo Jin, as long as knets can get over their bitchy comments about her face - she's lovely and talented)
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Date: 2015-05-30 10:47 am (UTC)But yeah, the "she's not actress-level" "she doesn't have the face of an actress" comments are so embarrassing. Especially when Go Ah-sung was on her way to CANNES (like, when will your conventionally pretty faves, K-netizens?), and the comments were primarily concerned with putting her down.
These netizens deserve their Kim Tae-hees, Han Ga-ins, Lee Yeon-hees, Suzys, and even Jin Se-yeons (YES I SAID IT), and the horde of decent-but-not-that-special pretty actresses that predominate on their television/movie screens.
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Date: 2015-05-30 03:11 pm (UTC)Like, ik the US has its share of utterly useless actors who only get jobs bc of their looks, but those bitches stay in their CW/Disney Channel lane where they belong, and pretty people who don't get that memo eventually get laughed out of the place.
But there's nothing like the Korean obsession with making people happen just because their looks fit the 'image' of what you want an actor/actress to look like, and giving them major roles on public broadcast tv just because they book commercials (seriously, it is sf screwed up that someone's ability to smile prettily in an ad and book that ad, is more of a factor in whether they get an acting role or not, than actual talent. And stans see nothing wrong with that, some of the excuses I see being made for idol actors on this site and others are such bs).
Netizens routinely drag all of the people you named for bad acting, and rightfully so. But then they go and drag actually talented actresses like Go Ah-sung too, whose acting is flawfree but she doesn't have the "look" they like and apparently doesn't play nice on some variety show - which is not even her fucking main job. If this is the shit she's been subjected to over the years, I have all the more admiration for her withstanding the pressure to remodel her face as per approved Korean beauty standards - it takes a strong mind to have that level of 'fuck it' going on in a place where everyone is that obsessed with looks and celebs aren't shielded from internet comments.
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Date: 2015-05-31 10:39 pm (UTC)Yeah, and we're lucky in that usually when people are criticizing Hollywood stars for not being able to act, what they're really criticizing is how they act like that same person in every project (e.g. I think Jennifer Aniston got or used to get this a lot) - which isn't even always a fair critique IMO - not that they generally can't convincingly emote.
The people who genuinely suck at acting like Megan Fox almost never get the opportunity to screw up good projects (when you look at her filmography it's basically only Michael Boy acting-is-optional projects; other than TMNT, the last major role she was allowed to have was in Jennifer's Body six years ago).
Looks still invariably factor too much into which actresses get a shot/get pushed (and there's way too much age discrimination, especially lately when all the established and up-and-coming major young female stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone & Margot Robbie keep getting cast with guys at least a decade older), but when I look at the Korean acting industry, I feel the US has it comparatively good.
Netizens routinely drag all of the people you named for bad acting, and rightfully so. But then they go and drag actually talented actresses like Go Ah-sung too, whose acting is flawfree but she doesn't have the "look" they like and apparently doesn't play nice on some variety show
This. And whenever any of those talentless actresses is in some way pitted against an idol, that 'actresses are inherently superior' mentality comes out, and it just makes me smh. Like, they realize getting acting jobs solely because you're pretty is in no way less embarrassing than getting acting opportunities because you're an idol, right? And at the very least most idols don't get major leading roles in big network projects (with the exception of Suzy) as Han Ga-in, Kim Tae-hee & Lee Yeon-hee routinely do.
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Date: 2015-06-01 05:46 am (UTC)And tbh while the looks obsession has real downsides and has led to the likes of Ha Ga In, Sung Yuri, Suzy, Jin Se Yeon etc having acting careers when they really shouldn't, let's not kid ourselves that idol casting isn't equally a slave to it either. More often than not, idol actors who do book lead roles are chosen for it purely because they aee the 'pretty' or popular one in the group/the "face" rather than having any talent. That's how Yoona ended up with lead role after lead role in dramas while Sooyoung, who actually is the best actress in SNSD, had no lead role till 2013. Or how Hyeri who sucked in all her acting work so far, ends up with an almost guaranteed starmaking role in Reoly 1988 when Minah is the one with the most acting ability in Girl's Day. (Eunji lucked into her role by winning it in an audit ion when no one knew that Reply would be anything but a throwaway cable drama, but if Cube had guesses at that potential for the franchise they'd probably have stuck Na Eun in the role. Or tried to anyway, seeing how many acting jobs they got her as a rookie for being A pink's visual).
And honestly, from 2012-13 p much all the roles for under-23 actresses in Big 3 prime time drama lead roles were taken by idol actresses with the exception of people like Park Shin Hye or Shin Se Kyung who were established before that as child actors. Or shitty excuses for actresses like Jin Se Yeon . I'm quite happy to see that trend dying in the last 6 months or so since we actually got people like Shim Eun Kyung, Kang Sora, Baek Jin Hee and even Lee Yubi scoring lead roles, and the only idols in sight are ones like Uee who can actually act.
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Date: 2015-06-01 06:24 am (UTC)Absolutely? I was just criticizing the K-netizen impulse to act like pretty-but-talentless actresses were automatically on another level than idols when they're just as bad.
but if Cube had guesses at that potential for the franchise they'd probably have stuck Na Eun in the role. Or tried to anyway, seeing how many acting jobs they got her as a rookie for being A pink's visual
Naeun does seem like she'd suck but I don't think I've seen her in anything...is she bad?
And honestly, from 2012-13 p much all the roles for under-23 actresses in Big 3 prime time drama lead roles were taken by idol actresses
Maybe, but I also don't think there were that many starring roles for under-23yo's - there's such a paucity of young, decent up-and-coming actresses that female leads were/are mostly being played by late 20s-40-year-olds (which has its upside in that "older" actresses aren't being squeezed out of roles)
I'm quite happy to see that trend dying in the last 6 months or so since we actually got people like Shim Eun Kyung, Kang Sora, Baek Jin Hee and even Lee Yubi scoring lead roles, and the only idols in sight are ones like Uee who can actually act.
IA, tho Kang Sora & SEK have proven that with the wrong material they can be pretty bad, so here's hoping they're given quality projects from here on out (haven't checked out the new Hong sisters drama with Kang Sora yet).
I want to know who exactly Jung So-min pissed off in the industry to STILL not be getting significant roles
I want a female-driven project that utilizes JSM, Moon Chae-won, Lee Yubi, Kang Sora & Baek Jin-hee (I hear Kim So-eun is good too?) - all of them! lol
And a female buddy comedy with Han Groo, Kim Seulgi & Shim Eun-kyung!
(the ridiculousness of 37 y.o Maggie Gyllenhaal being "too old" to play some 55 year old's love interest like wtf)
Wait, what?
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Date: 2015-06-01 02:59 pm (UTC)As for Naeun, Cube was pushing her hard on the acting - supporting roles in as many dramas as they could find, etc., even a sageuk - and then Eunji won her Reply role via an actual audition and stole all the Apink acting thunder.
there's such a paucity of young, decent up-and-coming actresses
This is p much the lie casting directors told themselves to justify locking girls like Jung So-min, Kim So-eun, Kim Ji-won, Han Groo, Park Eun-bin, Baek Jin-hee and lord knows how many talented actresses born in the late 80s-early 90s out of roles for those couple of years. It's not that the talent wasn't there, it was more that the girls in that age group who actually had talent were p much perpetually shafted in favour of idols who were at best mediocre and at worst, unspeakably bad (and the actresses who did get cast were mostly long-established mediocrities like Lee Yeon-hee or Shin Se-kyung, or else unspeakably terrible - see: She Who Must Not Be Named).
It got to the point where it was so bad that articles started coming out last year about how young actresses weren't getting even a chance at major roles if they weren't already idols, and honestly it's only after that that I've seen the idol stranglehold on younger female lead roles ease up and networks consciously start going after sorta-talented actresses for lead roles instead of idols.
And personally, I want to know who Jung So-min and Han Groo have both pissed off. I can't believe Han Groo keeps missing out on major roles when she is that phenomenally talented, and I also can't believe Jung So-min got demoted to cable lead/network supporting lead. It's ridiculous, after seeing them in Can We Get Married I know they both deserve better.
(PS: Maggie Gyllenhaal recently said she was told she was "too old" to be cast opposite a 55 year old. Let that amount of wtf marinate, if you can take it all in - I stil can't)
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Date: 2015-06-02 06:40 am (UTC)"The other non-acting stuff" is what really ruffles my feathers, though. Using level talk to imply more than just looks when pitting a talentless pretty actress against an idol, especially if said idol has shown a little bit of promise and said actress hasn't. The 'actresses are inherently classier/prettier/just better' mentality.
I'm a little more pessimistic about the field of young female talent than you are. I'm starting to even loose faith in Kim Ji-won and Lee Yoo-bi, from what I've seen of them lately. Hopefully LYB really pulls off this role opposite Lee Junki (tho I think Kim So-eun would've better suited the female lead - but hey, it's still 100x better than Jin Se-yeon). JSM & Han Groo are the only actresses I'm really excited about, and JSM's lack of success is particularly suspicious to me mostly because she's very conventionally pretty - she has that cute, petite, feminine look Koreans are really into. Whereas I always expected Han Groo would have to work way harder than she should have to in order to get noticed, to get the big opportunities, I expected JSM to waltz to the head of the pack. But she's struggling more than almost all the actresses we've listed.
(PS: Maggie Gyllenhaal recently said she was told she was "too old" to be cast opposite a 55 year old. Let that amount of wtf marinate, if you can take it all in - I stil can't)
That's so, so gross. I opened up an article on that and while some of the comments were sympathetic, others were like: "What he really meant was that you're ugly." The incredible sexism of the entertainment industry feeds on and is enabled by the misogyny of the society at large.
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Date: 2015-05-30 04:26 pm (UTC)but of course you are right, you can't complain about bad acting while expecting casting decision to be made by who has the prettiest face, it seems only men are allowed to have a much wider range of looks and still be considered attractive
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Date: 2015-05-31 10:10 pm (UTC)Ooh, I'll have to check that episode out.
it seems only men are allowed to have a much wider range of looks and still be considered attractive
Exaaactly.
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