When you mash together two huge fandoms, will sparks fly or will both sides combust? I don’t know, but I do know that if you mash together two young hot Korean actors there is bound to be something interesting happening. While the cast of Heirs or The Inheritors (Those Who Wear the Crown, Withstand the Weight: The Heirs) films in Los Angeles and its environs this month, last month the cast already started filming in Korea and this past week has been a steady release of official stills from those early days of filming. We’ve already seen individual stills Park Shin Hye’s poor girl Cha Eun Sang as well as Lee Min Ho’s poor-little-rich-boy Kim Tan’s – she’s hard at work washing dishes while he’s driving a Maserati. I was expecting more individual stills of the supporting cast this week but SBS switched it up and instead we get a first peek at the first meeting of Kim Tan and Cha Eun Sang. This is very different than the first OTP meeting in Boys Before Flowers, the story that Heirs sound a lot like on paper. Here we see that Kim Tan seems quite interested in Eun Sang right off the bat, while she’s like “da fuck is this?” and shrinks away from him. Either she’s blind or he smells bad, because there is no other reason for Eun Sang to back away from a hottie that looks like Lee Min Ho. I kid of course, maybe his character is annoying and way too touchy feely. Either way, I’m sure everyone will have an opinion as to whether it looks like Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye have chemistry with each other based on these stills. I’m actually content to just sit back and wait for them to actually interact onscreen before rendering a verdict, but I am still relieved neither of them have a ridiculous hairstyle or wardrobe. Park Shin Hye actually can pass for a high school student in these stills, thought Lee Min Ho can wear all the casual t-shirts he wants but he’s never going to convince he he’s just 18 years old. But narratively I’ll give him a pass and just accept he’s a student as well.
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Ooh, they look good together.
They do actually look good together. I was waiting for stills with both of them to sort of get the feel of how they'll look next to each other.
It's not explosive but there's definitely something there.
and they look young too. Yay for highschoolers!
He must really like Coca-Cola. He's got 2 CC shirts (one gray, one blue).
They must really need $$.
"Either she’s blind or he smells bad, because there is no other reason for Eun Sang to back away from a hottie that looks like Lee Min Ho" ..... You're totally right. Most normal girls are busy wiping off their drool...lol.
I'm praying hard ..hopefully this is not one of those dramas where the girl plays hard-to-get. I just want to watch a drama where the OTP doesnt break up at all from the beginning till the end, still havent found a drama like that.
It is PSH. She is going to play hard to get, and she will avoid physical contact and kisses, and when she does get kissed it will be the worst thing EVAR. But she will be forgiven, because the fangirls will just be substituting themselves in that kiss, anyway.
so true lol
I realized that PSH's fangirls are really hardcore protective of her. I made just one comment about finding her acting bland in a forum and I got scolded severely for voicing out my opinion.
And I see this all the time! People getting bashed because of their open dislike for/disinterest in her as an actress.
skelly, come now, the PD has something to do with it too - PSH is not the one sitting behind the camera directing the kiss to the desired degree of dead-fish-ness, you know.
True, pogo, but this seems to happen regardless of the PD. Is there a Korea-wide conspiracy to protect the virtue of her lips? ;-)
She had a decent kiss for the FBND finale, though, and for that CF - it was a better kiss than she got in the actual drama she did with Jang Geun-seok!
And I really think you are underestimating just HOW many drama kisses are of the dead fish/closed mouth variety, Korea has weird hangups about women showing desire on network tv and the characters PSH has chosen to play so far mostly fall right into the naive/innocent trope, which = dead fish. At least on network tv, anyway. PSH is far from the only actress to have this problem, and I don't think a network tv drama where she plays a high school student is going to give us any heated kissing either.
Come on now, I find it very hard to believe that every lame kiss she did in EVERY drama was the PD's fault or someone elses fault.
Jung So Min also did a highschool drama but her kissing was excellent.
There are other actresses who dont just stand there like an icicle while they are being kissed. So are you telling me that the PD's that they've worked with in every drama and the network just lets them kiss as intimately as they want, while they dont allow Park Shin Hye the same priviledge?
I find it way too hard to believe.
Any girl would cringe if a stranger in a foreign country suddenly tries to become familiar to that extent. I wonder why the clip is being seen as Shinhye backing away from LMH rather than Cha Eun Sang with KIm Tan?
The preconceived suppositions/notions is bound to affect the enjoyment of the drama if one does not stop the spillover of past impressions about actors/actresses and dramas. But, again everyone being different have their own concepts of the various ways by which one can get the maximum fun and joy.
You all have no idea how relieved I am they both look good here.Jan Di made me nuts watching her in BoF.I can support this in peace now without cringing.I wonder how it would be written.Once we see the previews. I hope Kim Tan doesn't sound childish.
Dang, these two look good together. Hot hot hot! Wonder what will happen after the show. They should try dating for real. ^^
Thats not gonna happen..lee minho like petite girl.psh really is pretty,but not lmh's ideal type
well he dated davichi kang minkyung, she's not petite
park minyoung is also around shin hye's height
A picture paints a thousand words. Yah, they are eye-candy and looks good in picture, but the real action will reveal if the chemistry really works. I see this story as another typical BoF drama w/ Jandi being replaced by PSH, a recycled storyline; but hey, they're still safe w/ backing of their fandoms!
I feel from the stills alone, no chemistry whatsoever. Anyway, she never had any chemistry with her leads.
so disagree with you!!!!! bet you are an anti-fan of Shin Hye....I think they will have amazing chemistry and appears they already do. I would bet that her fans think she had chemistry with every co-lead she had just as you think your favorite actress had chemistry with her leads.....and for those who say she only has one look etc etc....we must be watching completely different shows with Shin Hye!!!!
right on the dot. as for @juliesan, why not focus on your bias and tell everyone that she has chemistry with every idol/actor she collaborates with and not go to every shinhye article and spread your unwanted & baseless opinions on her. it will not up your bias' level if you bash shinhye everywhere & every time.
You moved from Couch Kimchi to here. I see
LoL PSH doesn't have chemistry with her leads yet she has so many shippers out there with all her costars?
And that's why Korean Media called her queen of chemistry?
lol Oh please go hate somewhere else and let us enjoy the prettiness lol
well said!!!!!!
Does the Korean media really call her the queen of chemistry?? Are they being sarcastic? I'd call her the queen of nice.
Who called her queen of chemistry??? Obviously they were making a joke.
The girl is pretty but she's bland and does not have chemistry with her costars. At least in my opinion.
She is an ok actress for me but she always carries this withdrawn aura around her which prevents her from connecting with her costars.
when she kisses, she has that stupid open stare and frozen look that's so typical in kdramas. And her lips have never moved in any of her kisses.
Maybe she will blow me away in Heirs, but so far I have not been impressed, and I have watched her in Beautiful You, Heartstrings and FBND, enough to form my opinion.
Park Shin Hye always has this warm and great chemistry with all her costars....she makes me feel giddy with excitement in all her romances in damas.....
*dramas
Right there with ya! I feel no chem whatsoever between them (just yet, I'd love to be surprised). And fans need to realize not all criticism against their bias is based on hate. We see what we see and in here it's like PSH is a deer caught in a headlight when LMH touches her, doesn't ping the romantic chemistry radar. Again, yet, I so want to like even one LMH drama since his past projects had done nothing to me.
Based on the description from the production team, Shin Hye played her part exactly as she should have. If you are out somewhere and someone you have never met before suddenly gets all touchy feely with you - what are you going to do? eyes get big and you get the WTF? are you doing and who are you? look.....or I would assume a normal person would. So she wouldn't be throwing herself at him or anything like that right off the bat but the deep looks are something else. But like you indicate neither actor does anything for you.
I'm curious why people feel the need to comment on actors/dramas/pictures that they obviously don't like or want to see?
On the contrary, I really really like these two but esp LMH's case, I always try VERY hard to like him in his roles but can't. Mostly cause I often find him to have negative chemistry with his leading ladies (save for, ironically, Lee Minjung in BOF). I do think PSH's chems with her leads are toss-ups, she was great with Yonghwa and Lee Wan, okay with JGS and YSY. But in the CF she did with LMH, lets just cross our fingers they somehow work it out A LOT better...
Also it's annoying when people automatically think that EVERYONE just has to say good things about their faves. Why, because I don't like what i see then i need to gtfo and not voice my opinion? Hello, this is the internet buddy!
I have never expected anyone to say anything. If you don't like someone - you don't like them. However, since it is the internet I also have the right to express how I feel. By all means don't ever gtfo if you don't want to.....geez. I thought I was simply responding to someone's opinion and giving my side of why I felt the way I do. Excuse my intrusion - but because I am fangirling over Shin Hye am I suppose to just shut up and not say anything? I loved the pictures and wanted to express that only. Don't see why anyone feels the need to say negative things about anyone.
I watched his CF with Shin Hye - the one where they are dressed in pink and she is standing on a box. He looks up and then slowly down to her face and there is a definite spark or sizzle...
So I don't expect anything from anyone. I have never felt the need for EVERYONE to feel the same as I do. In the scheme of things it is just words and opinions and we all have them.
Well, you're the one who insinuate that commenters here who criticize PSH must be her antis and THEN says that everyone's entitled to their own opinions.
I insinuate nothing! I always say what I mean. I have been taught to not put down anyone or talk badly about anyone. I am simply saying everyone has their own opinion but it seems mean and cruel to say hateful things about anyone. I don't think everyone who criticizes is an anti but on the other hand - isn't it a 2 way street? You can say or criticize her and I can say I disagree. There is something wrong when someone states I can't say anything about comments that they know will cause her fans to be upset.
The definition of an anti-fan is "someone who purports to be a fan or purports to like the person but who is actually engaged in dissing down the person being talked about". Common courtesy should be if you don't like them don't be mean and talk about them where you know their fans will read it. I read comments all the time from people who are not fans of Shin Hye but constructive criticism and "criticism" to just be spiteful are different things. Everyone has their favorite actors/actresses.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I just gave my opinion which is I don't understand anyone getting on a site and making statements that they know will upset the fans of a star not just Shin Hye or Min Ho but any site showing any idol/star/singer etc. It is done to incite and cause ire - why else do it?
Apparently I ruffled some feathers - so be it. I really wasn't directing my comments at anyone in particular just commenting on things I read. And I choose my freedom of speech to say how I felt about it!
@enonane HAHA. You cannot take any comments about your idol that makes you UPSET. Well, good luck with that and get off the internet. Woops, I upset you again don't I? Well, if you like to stay on public comment sections then get over it. That's the way internet works.
FYI, criticisms are legit, we call a spade a spade and that doesn't mean I mean harm. It means I expect more from these people who I have high hopes for (I guess this is when you pull your "antis are haters disguised as cricizing fans" again huh?). If it's someone i truly dislike I just choose to not comment and enjoys others doing the dissing lol
Choz!
...and you do realise there are TWO people involved there, right? And one of them is Lee Min Ho. But of course the guy will never get any criticism for lacking chemistry with a costar unless they're Taecyeon levels of godawful.
B - I forget the basic principle I was taught growing up. Never say YOU when talking or writing to someone. It makes people think you are singling them out. I did not intend that. I am not upset. Say it however you wish.
I just don't understand people sometimes. Guess it is a failing in my older years. Rudeness is rudeness and the internet or any medium is not an excuse. If I offended you to begin with - then I do apologize.
Nuff said on subject.
Let's hope that the Heirs is a hit and everyone is happy.
LOL pogo, so true. So let me think of the male versions of PSH (off the charts on the nice meter, barely breathing on the sexual chemistry test) : Yonghwa (except for a slightly disturbing level of enthusiasm with the teacher in Heartstrings), Jung Kyung Ho (at least until Cruel City), Song Il Gook (a good actor but stiff and formal with the ladies), Kim Hyun Joong, Bae Soo Bin, and then of course Taecyeon (who creates his own new level of bad). As for other actresses with the PSH issue, I would include Gong Hyo Jin and Kim Ha Neul (whose performance in AGD made me cringe). I always want MOAR - from any of them.
@skelly - Gong Hyo-jin?! Seriously? Now we're just losing the way between 'the PD directs all the sexiness out of the kiss scenes' and 'no chemistry'. The former really cannot be pinned on the actresses at all (and even Moon Chae-won had to stand there like a wall in Nice Guy and let SJK do all the work, looking at bts it's clear that their kiss scenes were edited to cut out shots where her lips looked like they were moving at all), the latter is the Han Ga-in problem (of course, she can't act at all anyway).
I mean, I want MOAR from GHJ/MCW's kiss scenes too but I do recognise that it's not in their control as actresses. And imo, the fact that we even want it from them is what shows that they do have chemistry with their leading men - if they were utterly chemistry-free, we wouldn't care at all (see: Han Ga-in)
Zero chemistry ,ia.
Your sooo nega!
Try watxh tree of heaven
she always has that wide eyed looking going for her with all her scenes with her love interest don't get me wrong I love her but she pretty much always looks the same
Love Love Love!!! All in love..... That's what I fell now, My heart is so happy. Thanks for the updates, Thanks for give me such happiness.... Can't wait for October
Eeeeee.....can't believe my favorite actors are acting together :-)
They look great......
This drama will be another big buster for 2013! FIGHTING!