Drama casting is on a roll today so I might as well soldier on. Let’s go a bit older and a whole lot sexier when it comes to this latest drama coupling. With the jTBC sageuk Maids wrapping up soon, to be followed in that time slot by the Jung Kyung Ho and Kim So Yeon heart transplant romance Falling for Innocence, the network isn’t coasting on readied products and is hard at work conjuring up the subsequent drama after that.
The network has lined up veteran leading man Joo Jin Mo as the male lead of Beloved Eun Dong, with him playing top star Eun Ho who for some reason is fixated for the last twenty years on his first love Eun Dong. If she turns out to be his faux sister like Joon Seo and Eun Seo in Autumn in My Heart then imma going to flip tables. Aside from concerns about the drama narrative, this drama is at least off to a promising casting start by adding Kim Sa Rang as the female lead, making Joo Jin Mo officially romancing both Secret Garden leading ladies.
I like Joo Jin Mo but am seriously rooting for his drama return after the shitty way his male lead was misused and shunted off to the side in Empress Ki. I’m doubly thrilled with this casting news, for Joo Jin Mo coming back to dramas and in a story where he can’t possibly get shafted, as well as Kim Sa Rang making her drama return after four years since Secret Garden. She’s an incredibly well-endowed actress but her acting doesn’t coast on her figure or looks, she’s got comedy and melo chops with a side of controlled bitchiness. I also find them perfectly matched up in age, looks, acting talent, basically everything that on paper would make a good onscreen pairing. Good job on casting this one, jTBC!
Ugh, I’m pretty sure she’s going to be his dongsaeng. Their names are Ji Eun Ho and Ji Eun Dong. Makjang ahoy!
LOL at makjang ahoy
(also I notice your comments here at KP and they crack me up a lot!)
Dayum! So AiMH gets a remake nearly fifteen years later. If KSR isn’t JJM’s real sister, then that family sure gets some really ridiculously hot progeny, whether birthed or adopted.
For realz. I might just tune in for the pretty.
I’m sooooooo in for the pretty. And hot. And sexy. And fauxcest moodiness. Another confession – AiMH is one of my dark dank vault secret pleasures. Rewatched that sucker too many times to admit lest I get kicked out of drama watching circles. Mostly for Song Seung Heon, a bit for Won Bin, lastly for the super icky makjangness of it all.
Also, I’m loving the Hye Ri camp backtracking and saying that she just attended an audition. The people have spoken!
I don’t care if her camp backtracks so far and falls off a cliff, anything to get her out of that drama in any capacity.
OK, I just re-read the articles… now she’s called Seo Jung Eun! I could swear I read that her name was Ji Eun Dong. Maybe they decided to make it not so obvious? Maybe she changes her name and it really was Ji Eun Dong at one point? Maybe I hallucinated everything?
I read the same too, at first it was “Ji” and it became “Seo”…
Ooooh, I like both Joo Jin Mo and Kim Sa Rang so pretty excited for this! But not excited for the possible makjangfest looming ahead. Please don’t go there.
Oh, that explains all, Kim Sa Rang received Seo Jung Eun’s role, Ji Eun Ho’s autobiographist. She will not play Eun Dong… So we still don’t have our leading lady…
i’m waiting his comeback so long after empress ki, really love king wang yo
This looks promising.
Yeah! Joo Jin Mo is back. Love his acting.
Joo Jin Mo deserves better roles than this, his acting is phenomenal and versatile. He should be in films alongside the likes of Song Kang Ho and Choi Min Sik.