When the biggest selling point is the collective pretty of the two leads, no one can fault the production of the upcoming C-movie The Third Way of Love for trotting out leads Song Seung Heon and Crystal Liu at every opportunity. The movie doesn’t open until the early spring movie season but the early promos are underway starting with a media press conference this week in Beijing. With the limitation on K-dramas airing online in China until a series is complete, more and more K-stars are likely to join the recent migration to Chinese movies and dramas to keep building their exposure and fanbase in the largest Asian market.
Song Seung Heon is pretty familiar to C-viewers due to the Hallyu success of Autumn in My Heart over a decade ago but this movie marks his first foray into a collaborative C-production. The movie is based on a C-novel called The Third Kind of Love and curious me wonders exactly what that entails, assuming the first two kinds are romantic love and familial love. I also keep jumping around to “third” oddities such as third nipples and third legs and third wheels what with the title engendering free association fun LOL.
A teaser behind-the-scenes video was released during the press conference that delves into the two leads impressions upon working together – Song Seung Heon complimented Crystal on being a goddess who takes the craft of acting very very seriously and feels like a sunbae to him despite her being much younger in age, while Crystal still remembers Song Seung Heon from watching AIMH and feels the real him is even more handsome and shoots charismatic electric sparks from his eyes when he acts. I sure hope their great chemistry offscreen translates onscreen.
Teaser for Third Way of Love:
This is a weird question but is couple scarf actually a thing? Do couple actually work around with a scarf around their necks like a chain gang?
The ending of the book reveals the third kind of love. 我原以為，世界上浪漫的愛情只有兩種，一種是電視劇裡的愛情，不論多麼肉麻，都可以讓你看得掉眼淚，另一種是自己正在經歷的愛情，即使對方是隻豬，你也可以痛苦到徹夜不眠。
但是，現在我才知道，還有第三種愛情，這種愛情，每個人都知道，每個人都感動，每個人都守口如瓶，每個人都諱莫如深。它是一條暗涌的河流，奔騰不止，泥沙俱下。如果你不幸遇到，還是躲遠些好，實在躲不過，被挾裹著，被卷帶著，在刻骨的甜蜜和痛苦中沉淪，那我也只能祝你修成正果，雖然我知道這很難很難，因為，我沒有做到。
I think… that is considered a spoiler? I remember reading this particular paragraph and thinking to myself that I’m definitely not going to read the book.
It’s a spoiler if you can read it but its just pretty charecters to me.
Ha. Ha. Ha. Nicely said. Hehe.
Is that Jia from Miss A in the last pic?
Pretty sure it is!
is it just me that Crystal looks some what different in these photos?
Boy is that a lot of pretty. He’s a handsome man, but she makes him look better.
He really doesn’t come off all that sharp; and I LOVE him, I mean, LOVE him. I think he needs a whip smart younger lady to take care of him so he can just continue being pretty for the rest of us.
I agree! Man, I loved him in My Princess. He does romantic comedies pretty well.
well he’s still mighty handsome and attractive, really he has that natural charm that is unrivalled by any of the current ksuperstars, it’s all plastic today, I never found his acting as bad as the widespread assuption, I heard about his bad acting before watching him act, then when I watched him in my princess he was just perfect, his acting was also fine in east of eden and he was even really good in that korean movie remake of A Better Tomorrow
song seung heon. still look good even in his mid 30s. if he only put more emotion into his acting. he would have it all. sad that he seem to not put much acting into his drama. only drama that he show acting is EOE. he was just ok in my princess cuz he didnt have to act much.