Lee Yoo Bi Joins the Actress Casting Party in Scholar Who Walks the Night

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• Yubi is like a child next to LJK.

  • @K,

    I totally agree. I don't know how they will make a convincing romantic pair.

    Even KSE looks a tad bit like a child next to LJK, but Lee Yubi with her baby face looks 15 at the most to me.

    If she's the lead, count me out, because I'll be totally creeped out by their pairing.

    • Me too. I'm out with this cast.

    • Lee Yoo Bi is 25 not 15. If she can pair with Lee Pil Mo who's 39, I don't see any problem with her pairing up with LJK who's 6 years younger at 33. Furthermore, LJK looks a lot younger than his real age. And Kim So Eun is 26.

      If these actresses who are already in their mid-twenties can't pair up with leading actors who are in their early 30s, then how are they ever going to get leading roles? Should they stick to high school roles? If they pair with actors in their twenties, would the guys be considered to be too young for them?

      Imo, what's important is does the actor or actress suit the role they are cast for? Are their acting skills good enough? From what I know, LJK's character is 150 years old. In view of his old age, I doubt he will be acting as a youthful person in this drama, rather as someone who is ageless. And he really looks like the manhwa character. And since the female lead is cross-dressing as a boy, not a man, she has to look young right?

    • C'mon the age different is just 6 years! Anyway Lee Jun Ki looks 18, though.

  • so true

  • I doubt these girls will have a problem in chemistry department. KSE had a good chemistry with Ji Jinhee, Jo Seung Woo and Lee Sangyoon which are way way older than her. Same goes for Lee Yoobi with Lee Pil Mo.

    And both actresses have a good charms and likeable aura in them and just knowing that they CAN act I don't mind them romancing LJK.

• Judging by what I've seen of Lee Yoo Bi so far, I do believe she has potential. All she needs is a breakout role that will allow her to unleash. However, I kinda agree with the above comment. She's barely 25, but with her youthful looks, I'm afraid she'll end up looking like LJK's lil' sis. But who knows, we might end up surprised.

  If this casting doesn't work out, another actress I have in mind is Go Ara. I think she can nail the cross-dressing part well. But that's just me.

  • Go Ara has that feminine beauty that will make it her "guy pretending" scenes a bit too unbelievable imo.

    • true she is very pretty in a feminine way but she also has this rough, tomboy manner if she want to. Most korean actress acts very 'pretty' but one that can pull off a tomboy is probably go ara.

    • That's what I initially thought too, but she pulled off the rough tomboyish role in Reply 1994 very convincingly that I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't seen You're All Surrounded though I believe her character wasn't feminin either. It makes me see her in a new light.

• *unleash it

• Kill Me Heal Me also had massive issues with casting and it turned out fine.

  Anyway I'm glad Jin Se Yeon is out, Lee Yoo Bi and Kim So Eun are much MUCH better and more acceptable candidates for the female lead. And they both look good and have good chemistry with older costars like Lee Sang Yoon and Lee Pil Mo, LJK is pretty youthful looking.

  Now I just hope MBC sticks with these two girls and doesn't go back. Lee Yoo Bi is young but she has a decent presence in a hanbok, so does Kim So Eun.

• Honestly I would love Moon Che Won in the lead rule. I miss her in saeguks and think she would be great with Lee Jun Ki.

• Yep, give Lee Yoo Bi more dramas and more songs too!

• What if it turns out that LJK is the one rejecting the female leads.maybe he's looking for someone up to his spar.
  Plus,LYB is definately too young(even if she is 25 this year) next to LJK.she'd look like is junior sister,which will make it uncomfortable for me to watch

  • Maybe. I'm imagining of JG's evil face while rejecting the female leads one after another, lol... kidding. Naaah, he might like LYB as his leading lady for this drama. He had experiences in having love-lines with the baby-faced actresses before in joint works, like the Japanese actress in Virgin snow and this year with Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu who is 10 years his junior. But they had that cute chemistry. So, I'm looking forward to him with LYB.

    • I found a subbed BTS interview video of LJK and ZDY on youtube.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpAuLTLblFI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

      You're right, they are adorable together even with her babayish look and the age gap.

      At this state, I hope so for the good chemistry between LJK and LYB if she confirms her role.

• I think both LYB and KSE are not perfect with LJK. I hope both of them will be supporting casts. Because LJK deserves a A-list actress. Like Yoon eun hye, Mon Geun young and Mon Chae won, one of them need to help out MBC like Ji sung in KMHM

  • I am rooting for the above 3 actresses you mentioned too :-)

• LYB already played a gisaeng in Gu Family Book. I'm almost positive she's being offered the main female lead role. She doesn't seem like an actress to play the same character twice.

  • Ooh.. I'm relieved to know your aspect. It's possible, and I think LYB would look better with LJK in chemistry-wise than KSE. I have no problem of this pairing. Great!

• Just give it to Lee Da-hae for her 2nd My Girl reunion. I don't really care at this point since they casted Changmin, but with LDH, I'll definitely check it out.

  • I don't know if it will even seem like a My Girl reunion since her face looks so different now.