The Secret Lovers Cast Chansung from 2PM as the Second Male Lead

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• This gets odder, truly but one can never predict the magic of TV. Once on-screen all previous furrowed brows may smooth and trickle down to wrinkled lips and dented cheeks.

• koala sis, i'm relying on the last paragraph of your post. i am one of those JW fans tho not acting violently (lols) on the pairing. i hope everything turns out well for Secret Lovers.

• I honestly can't think of a worse casting combo than these three (and Me Too Flower example is actually not reassuring for me because despite YSY being great in it, he was still miscast and his being much too young for the role kept sticking out there, distracting me from the drama. He was borderline OK with LJA but opposite HGE, I felt like there were weird Oedipal issues. Not even the best acting can save miscasting). It's pretty clear this was initially thought of with a much younger female lead and the age difference is just going to be distracting.

  I am not into noona romances as a rule, but I can enjoy one if it's well done/makes sense etc. My problem with this drama is to have such a huuuuge age difference in a breezy story about spy hijinks is just distracting and makes little sense (in the movie this is based on, the leads were about even in age).

  It doesn't help that I find CKH an older version of Gu Hye Sun - OTT shrillness that passes for cuteness is just not my thing. Also, on a shallow note, she is judt not pretty. I mean, I would buy a 22 year old falling for e.g. Kim Tae hee ebcause she is so gorgeous, it wouldn't matter she is that much older. But CKH? Really?

  Ehhh, there are a lot of other dramas coming out I am excited about so I will just give this one a miss.

  • Sorry for horrendous spelling. For some weird reason, the comment form won't let me scroll past first few lines so I have to type 'blind.'

    I am literate, I swear!

    • This happens to me all the time--to the point that when I know I am going to write a lot (Miss Rose postings), I just write my comment in a word processing program and paste it into the box.

  • MTE, MTE. I couldn't get past the idea of YSY being paired with LJA - not only that she was much older but also because she was just coming off of her 'scandal'. The casting for this drama leaves me speechless. I'm guessing they'll be playing up the comedy factor and toning down the romance if they don't want viewers to barf.

    • I happen to love LJA and YSY individually and I did think they had chemistry but I just couldn't get over the fact that YSY's character was written as so much older (both in amount of personal history, trauma, behavior, and age of love interests) than YSY could believably pull off. I really with Kim Jae Won did not get injured and stayed with that drama - it was clearly written for him, not someone almost a decade younger.

      Now, if LJA and YSY decide to costar in a noona romance, I am all there, with popcorn and excitement.

    • Yep, I didn't quite express myself correctly. I couldn't believe that they made YSY and LJA the same age but with KJW's injury, I could understand how the casting was kind of last minute.

    • I loved LJA and YSY - chosen by a casting genius, or the luckiest casting folks on earth! That team had literally hours to replace KJW who scenes had to be redone.

      It seems that The Secret Lovers could have tried harder and taken more time. Or even gone to CKH's people and said, "Whatta ya think? Do you want to back out? We don't mind."

      Of course, I could be completely wrong here and they will be fabulous.

    • I always love spy theme drama, but i might skim this one due to the huge age gap. Im just sick of all these noona/ajuhma relationship.... seriously they couldnt find a younger actress.... if this drama passss 15 i will give it a try but highly doubt it.... smh

  • Agree 100%!!

• I had zero problems with Choi Kang Hee being cast...in fact I may have even understood it...but now I'm beginning to wonder if the casting directors are on crack because even forgetting the age difference this is one of the oddest trios i've ever heard of...I sincerely hope he's not second lead but a supporting character because I have a feeling that both CKH and JW are going to kick his butt in the acting department and he'll come of a very ineffectual romantic rival

• Koala, Chansung WAS in Dream High 1! :D

  *MINI-SPOILER WARNING*
  He was the "imagined" flower boy who walked Teacher Kang's sister home. The sister kissed Chansung and the camera panned around to show that it was actually the gangster boss. Heehee... I heard that Chansung didn't know his cameo would involve a kiss until he was on the set and about to be kissed!
  *END MINI-SPOILER*

  • Mary, Oh yes, I remember that moment! ...do you remember what episode that was?

    • I think it's in Episode 12. :)

• AWESOME !! About time, he was originally an actor before he became a trainee & became an idol singer. Honestly I was surprised that TAecyeon & Wooyoung were cast in Dream High instead of him since he had the experience. Still not fond of Choi Kang Hee but I'll live with it since Joo Won & now Chansung are in the show.

  • I didn't know that (don't really follow 2PM) but I looked it up just now and he was in the first High Kick. Interesting.

    You know, it's funny because they keep giving Taecyeon big roles but I don't think he's good at all.

    • But he is so damn good looking it is easy to forgive him.

• ROFL. Individually, I am a fan of all 3 of them.
  Collectively, in the casting director's mind- together. Loveline. Kisses involved. His/her brain cells have gone down the drain from too much soju/beer/hard liquor.

• That is one odd odd trio pairing
  Changsung is my favorite out of 2pm and I always wanted to see him in a drama as I think that he ha potential after seeing him in JOO's mv, but with Choi Kang Hee? Personally not a fan of her but I'll stick around as I do like chang sung and Joo won

• I wonder if 2PM fans are flipping tables right now?

  I'm a Hottest and nope, in fact I'm thrilled that Chanana get a chance to act in his homeland (his previous big role was in japanese series Kaitou Royale).

  And yes, CKH must have saved a nation in her previous life.

• Two hot males and one old and not pretty ajumma...
  And they want us to believe that both of them will love her???
  As if she was the only woman left in the world...seriously!!!

  • LOL.

    Yeah, suspension of disbelief is required. I don't even think CKH is old (old to me is 85 years old or something) but she is too old to be in a believable love triangle with two guys in their early 20s. In a way, casting a 22-year-old for secondary male role takes this from drama with questionable casting to sheer insanity land! If Joo Won's romantic rival was CKH's age, that would be more believable as a situation in the real world. Sometimes a younger man does fall for a much older woman (or vice versa) and that's fine. But to have two of them do so! At the same time! With no indication that this is a drama that will address the unusualness of such a situation - no, thank you.