The casting news for My Lovely Girl (My Lovable Girl) comes in waves of ups and downs and this weekend is no exception. I was super stoked for Rain‘s confirmation as the male lead, then horrified that L of Infinite was going to play his romantic rival. It doesn’t even matter if L’s idol boy character has a bat’s chance in hell of getting the girl, the mere thought of them giving each other the proprietary male drama character glare makes me want to headdesk. The big news this past weekend was the reveal that SBS had sent the offer for the leading lady role out to Krystal Jung of f(x). She was working exclusively with MBC with More Charming by the Day and High Kick 3 but last year worked with SBS for the first time in Heirs. The network must have been impressed enough to want to elevate her to the leading lady part and truth be told the character in My Lovely Girl sounds right up her alley.
Krystal is herself an idol singer before she started acting so the acting an idol role won’t be that big of a stretch for her. I simply don’t think her acting skills and onscreen charisma is female lead ready yet but since she’s just been confirmed for the role then I’ll just leave my reservations put there and decide if she exceeded my low expectations after I watch the actual drama. On a more promising note is the confirmed casting of Im Joo Eun (Heirs, Wild Romance, Arang and the Magistrate, What’s Up?) as the second female lead in the drama, playing the role of Rain’s agency’s creative director and a character described as beautiful, smart, and demands perfection in anything she does. Sounds like the typical perfect second male lead but with the gender reversed. She’s wonderful and I’m so glad she’s onboard after being totally wasted in Heirs. The drama now has its main cast set and better start filming if it wants to make the scheduled mid-September premiere date.
The female lead is a young aspiring singer who Rain’s music agency president takes under his wing to build up her singing career. Along the way she heals his emotional scars from the death of his first love, who happens to be her older sister, and they fall in love despite the age difference and the loving a pair of sisters slight squickiness.
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train wreck in the making... SBS you've got a dissappointing year.
yes..yes..yes..
Welcome back Rain
Missed his acting!
gaaahhhhhhh..so disappointed
Perhaps because the only role I've seen her in was in The Heirs, I'm not too upset about Krystal's lead. Being part of the only couple I actually cared about left me favorably disposed toward her. Very excited to see more of Im Joo Eun, though
I totally agree. I had the same experience with Krystal.
With the confirmation of Im Joo Eun I'm sold. I love her. It's really a pity that she is wasted in so-so dramas
Not too bothered about Krystal but Im Joo Eun by all rights should be leading dramas... Gong Hyo Jin isn't a perfect Korean beauty either so I've got to wonder what's holding IJE back. She's a wonderful actress AFAIK.
don't tell me jessica will playing her older sister..
OH GOD PLEASE NO
Im Joo Eun should've been the leading lady just by looking at her resume and experience. But I can see them wanting someone who is much more popular with the international market as their main lead opposite Rain.
But their characterizations sound like a good match to the actors so it's looking great for now. I'm very excited to see how the ratings game go. It's either going to be really high or really low. And Rain's track records is quite impressive even when he had major scandals early on in his career. I'm curious where this will go.
I think the producers are really aiming for the idols fans to get this drama moving but omg that is just a wrong move to go to...
as if L was not hard enough to swallow they bring in Krystal... given Krystal was rather serviceable in The Heirs, I just don't see any acting chops from her at this moment to be the lead role...
But then again acting or lack there off of acting skills, has not stopped SM Ent from shoving their talents down some of the drama there is.
I admit there are some idol-talents or some talents they had that SM had that really improved over time (Yoona, sooyoung, Go ara and Lee yeon hee), but as for Krystal well she is really not yet up in the alley to be had in leading lady status. especially since this is for Rain's comeback drama. Anyway I am running far away from this drama...
What in the world..for about about half a second, seeing Im Joo Eun's pic. I thought that maybe she was the lead and then everything just fell through after that...This doesn't even seem like a show that I am dying to watch nor am I the biggest Rain fan and yet I'm really annoyed that someone as wonderfully talented as Im Joo Eun has to play second lead to Krystal (who may have improved, but that's besides the question here)
Noooo! Why can't Im Joo Eun be the lead, she's more established as an actress than Krystal, I still love her performance in Hon, and I think she stole the spotlight in Wild Romance... le sigh...
I've nothing against Krystal but I do find the characters she played annoying, she's not as wooden and stiff as her sister, she's quite expressive but her acting range seems limited... Anyways, I think she still need some more polishing before she takes the lead role.