Kim Hyun-joong cast in Playful Kiss
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Kim Hyun-joong of SS501 has beaten out fellow contenders Jung Yong-hwa and DBSK’s Chang-min for the lead role in Playful Kiss, aka the It Started With a Kiss / Itazura na Kiss remake.
With those options, it seems they were determined to cast an idol-star-turned-newbie-actor, which just confuses me when you’ve got such an open field of talented actors. (Kim Soo-hyun? Ji Chang-wook? Im Joo-hwan?) Aie, what a waste of a director.
According to a rep from Keyeast, Kim’s new management, the contract hasn’t been signed yet, but they’ve made their final decision. The character he plays is “Baek Seung-jo,” who’s the best at everything at his school. There’s nothing he can’t do, and he’s a perfect example of the “eomchinah” — the boy next door all mothers love. He falls for a scatterbrained “Moon Ha-ni,” who has yet to be cast. Top contenders right now are Park Shin-hye, Kara’s Han Seung-yeon, and f(x)’s Sulli. (Man, if they make this an all-idol newbie cast, this may just turn into incredible snark fodder.)
Playful Kiss will air on MBC on Wednesdays and Thursday, and follows the current war drama Road No. 1.
So….. pretty much all of my legitimate interest in this drama is dead. Since the news is apparently final there’s no use crying over it, I suppose, and I’ll try to be open-minded enough to the possibility that Kim has improved since he made his debut role in Boys Before Flowers and murdered the Rui character with his disconnected acting. Hey, Park Shi-yeon started out pretty bad in My Girl and has recently won me over in Coffee House with a much improved performance. (Then again, she has been steadily improving for years, and has taken on many film and drama roles since My Girl five years ago. And even if I can wish for improvement from Kim, I can’t wish him into another person. Booooo.)
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-09 04:23 am (UTC)Of all people, WHY HIM?! FML.
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Date: 2010-07-08 08:51 pm (UTC)Lee Minho where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?!!?
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:50 pm (UTC)But no one compares to Kashiwabara Takashi however.
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Date: 2010-07-08 07:55 pm (UTC)This so much. :/ I LOVED him in the Japanese drama. :D
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 05:51 pm (UTC)I know why they're picking him, but it's not going to work. In my heart of hearts, I really wanted TOP to be considered.
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:17 pm (UTC)*stares at gif*
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:55 pm (UTC)Just don't cast Park Shinhye pls >____<
Look wise I can imagine him as Zhi Shu... for Xiang Qin I'm not sure.. but I guess Sulli'd be nice?
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:17 pm (UTC)But I think Changmin actually is Zhi Shu.
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:56 pm (UTC)He's by no means the best actor around, but I think he can pull it off.
Oh, and I really want the female lead to go to Park Shin Hye.
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:56 pm (UTC)even though i said that...Yonghwa of it TOP was in consideration would have been my pick.
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)I have nothing against him but...Why lead role =(
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)well it's not like they had a great set of actors they were determined to choose from anyway...i'll be interseted to see how this turns out. most likely tune in the for the eye candy
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:31 pm (UTC)mte
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:02 pm (UTC)congrats?
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:05 pm (UTC)try totolerate it if one of them were the lead, but no, they just have to utterly ruin any chance of success for this drama.no subject
Date: 2010-07-09 01:31 am (UTC)and i prefer Yong-Hwa to get other type of role which is more cheerful than the cool serious guy all the time^^;
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:06 pm (UTC)Ok, but seriously I'll try to give him a chance cause I love him. But I'm less than confident.
P.S. With every new pic I see of him, he looks more and more like Yamapi. Maybe they can both be bad actors in an idol drama about being long lost brothers. I'd watch that XD
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 06:16 pm (UTC)Changmin dont even make any effort for that character :D
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