Rising Movie Actress Kim Tae Ri Cast Opposite Lee Byung Hun in Kim Eun Sook’s Upcoming Mr. Sunshine

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• Sorry, but there is just to much of an age difference for me. I will let others enjoy.

• HEIRS made Kim Eun-Sook into fame not the other way around.

  • As someone who've watched KES projects since Lovers in Paris, HEIRS is a testament that even the best writers has their own failures.

    • The publicity she got from Heirs was unmatched which fast tracked her into this star and untouchable magnet. She timed it very well imo. I don't even think she made that for critics or to be acclaimed it was purely to attract attention and sort of BOF copy cat but she fast tracked herself with into globally star faster then a cheetah catches it's pray. She wanted some of trendy concepts, young teens, and in a way BOF inspired but different. That was the main jackpot that KES ever since that KES was bigger then her casts. She knew how social media and the current youth generation think and communicate and what catches their attention mostly.

      I would say she was more gamed then her pairs in that sense

    • Heirs was no way a failure. KES got the hottest young stars of that generation to star in it. They had a big following and each one of the Heirs actors/actresses went on to better things. DOTS and Goblin had very clean image oppas so the East Asia ajummas slapped it up but with LBH's image in tatters it will be very difficult to draw in the same audience. The only audience this drama is getting are people who say they care about 'great-acting' only. Let us wait and see how this drama goes.

    • KES relies on buzz, star power, casting and hot young actors. It’s a cycle for KES. The pilot episode will have double digit ratings because that is how anticipated KES dramas are. @Abc, I think she is targeting different demographics and basically testing her limits with this drama. Or maybe she is trying her luck with ahjumma viewers by trying to make even LBH ’’swoony’’ to them again. She probably suffers from god-complex xD. Also, you’re overestimating ahjumma viewers, most Park Yoochun’s and Kim Hyun Joong’s remaining fans are ahjummas and these two have even lower image than LBH.
      But it’s really obvious that a regular drama viewer cares about looks and image as much as acting, whereas cinephiles don’t care about things like that. There is a definite reason why LBH hasn’t been acting in rom-coms in films either, just action and noir films.

    • @Gilgit, you and I are talking about totally different audiences. I am only referring to East Asia audience (or more specifically China) and not the domestic audience. They could have sky high ratings at home for all I care but the reason why KES is such a famous name is because her previous dramas are just as well loved in China. Without making a profit let's see if KES is so confident.

  • Lols, lovers in paris's rating was almost 50%, means half of koreans watched it. Then most of her dramas got 30% rating. Heirs is only one of her successful dramas. Secret garden has a lot of parodies and even concerts for their success. Heirs, comparing to her other dramas was the last successful, why? It just got recognize after My love from another star finished. Im one of KES' fans. And watching all her dramas except his very first drama. But i like heirs despite the recognition foe this drama not as high as her other dramas but still, youngdo is one of my fave characters in her dramas.

• By the way. LBH has kept himself in good shape. I would like to follow his footsteps and stay fit

• Just because Kim Tae Ri was in a Park Chan Wook movie it doesn't make her great actress. Her performance was actually very underwhelming and Kim Kim Hee was only OK there.Just Because the movie got good response in Cannes all of the critics started overpraising the movie and the actress.
  Why Kim Eun Sook couldn't get an older leading lady. At KTR's age she almost could be daughter of LBH. Thing with KES is she totally depends on the star power and casting buzz to sell her overly hyped and completely lacking in artistic merit dramas. Now KES is on another plane of popularity that she can even lure movie actors to drama world. Though this yime around I think her spell may be broken and this drama is not going to achieve it's purpose. Sorry to say LBH is going to be hated forever even though they achieve 100% ratings.

  • Just because you've seen one project of Kim Tae Ri doesn't mean that you've seen her all. Who knows, she might be more than that.

    • Read my comment again.
      I didn't say that she can't be anything more than that ever but I'm just stating that she wa soverpraised for her famous project. I'm more concerned about age gap than her acting skills.

  • I agree with you actually. Kim Taeri was good for a newbie though and fit that pickpocket Sook-Hee’s character really well. I agree that she has been elevated to pedestal because of this one role, when she really hasn’t proved her skills yet. KTR has herself said that she doesn’t know whether she truly acted well or was it because she was a part of a ’'masterpiece of a film'' by a talented director.
    Also, filming drama is completely different from filming movie and a Park Chan-Wook movie on top of that. Many actors are better in films than dramas because of the live shooting, but I expect Mr. Sunshine will be pre-produced. Let’s see if KTR can match LBH’s intensity. Making a drama debut in KES drama will be beneficial for her anyway, because KTR has an international following already and these fans were dying for her drama debut, and what’s better than a highly anticipated KES drama, which will no doubt have double digit ratings..
    This pairing is so unexciting.. he really could be her father age-wise. not to mention how icky it would be to see LBH, with a questionable character, romancing a 90-liner on-screen...

  • Everyone who comments in a negative way about the Handmaiden gets attacked, but honestly that movie is mediocre at best. The 2 male actors are good, but the actresses either overacted or were wooden and the director/writer tried to transform a very simple story into a complicated one with the 3 point of views stuff that was completely unnecessary and made the movie more boring. The critics probably just praised it because they thought those R rated scenes were something groundbreaking for a korean movie, when in fact asian R rated movies have always been more sexual than western ones.

    • And you are underestimating film critics :)
      Park Chan-Wook has put South-Korea’s film on world map since Oldboy (2003) and he is famous for his psychological thrillers in film circles. Just because you didn’t understand the film, doesn’t mean it was ’’overrated’’. Some critic’s favorites don’t suit my taste either but I wouldn’t go as far and say that the film got praised only because of the R-rated scenes. And please, it’s well known fact that Korean cinema isn’t prude with R-rated scenes, only France is more liberal with them. Also Kim Min Hee wooden? Was she supposed to be bright and spunky like Do Bong Soon? Lol. Her character was written like that. A lonely and confined heiress Lady Hideko and people approach her only to con her. Kim Min Hee won many prestigious acting awards for that role and you possibly can’t claim that all of the award jurors and critics have been blind.
      And just so you know, some critics even have criticized the sexual scenes in The Handmaiden, saying that despite the film being progressive in portraying LGBT love, the sex scenes were still filmed from a male perspective. The same critique that Blue is the Warmest Color got too actually.

• Surprising I enjoyed DOTS and Goblin. They were a breeze to watch and nothing serious. Plus the production was the real thing that kept me watching. The cinematography and soundtrack were amazing. I'm sure it would be the same for Mr. Sunshine.

  So far, I'm liking the casting more than Goblin. I know Lee Byung Hun will nail in his role. I still remember his act in his last tv drama, IRIS. He is so charismatic. And for Kim Tae Ri, I have seen her in The Handmaiden. I think this would really up-ed her to stardom if the drama succeeds.

• Now I realized that Koala is a fan of Kim Eun Sook. I'm sorry but this pairing is gross. It totally creeps me out to watch the sleazy LBH romancing a girl where he is old enough to be her father. Sell it like it is since KES has midas touch and let's see if she really is that invisible. But I applaud her for her starpower that she managed to snag Chungmuro's powerhouse to headline her drama.

• I have never been a fan of LBH and I am appalled to see they cast such a young actress to pair with him. This is so wrong. I'll be happy to let it pass.. lol

• Don't understand with the comments, I've seen many Hollywood movies that stars huge age between the leads.

  I am not a fan of LBH nor KTR, however, I have to admit LBH is the best actor in Korea while KTR, her acting is still rough and if I need to salute her is her courage to go naked for her movies which somehow not many young actress willing to do so.

  I will pass this drama, also because I am not a huge fan of the writer, the only drama of hers that I like is only City Hall. I dropped DOTS and Goblin

  • LOL. Clearly you have not watched that many K-movies. Esom is a young actress who went naked in "Scarlet Innocent" and had very expletive sex scene with Jung Woo Sung. And there was Kim Go Eun in her debut movie, "Muse" and so was Kang Hye Jung back then and also the late Lee Eun Joo. They were all young and stripped for a movie. Anyway, I don't like nudity even in the name of Art.

    And yes, Hollywood movies do that but we don't have the same expectation for Korean dramas. The standard set is different.

    All I say is KES definitely need the starpower to headline her filler lack of content drama and generated buzz while the Chungmuro stars seem to see opportunity to have a grand comeback and debut in dramaland via KES. In Kim Tae Ri's case, may be she has seen what Kim Go Eun enjoyed through Goblin.

  • Many Korean actress start out with Rated R movies, or they are in Rated R movies even when they are already well known. My surprise when I saw actresses that I thought had the innocent image strip for a movie before.
    This is in contrast with the Hong Kong entertainment industry that I grew up with. Once an actress strips for a movie, she is forever typecasted as the sexy vixen and will not get as much respect..nor will they ever get to lead in a drama ever again.

    • Agree. I grew up watching HK movies with Lin Ching Hsia being my favourite. I think one of the few who could break free from staring in B-grade movies is Shu Qi, even then she had to struggle with that vixen image for a long time. I never enjoyed nudity on-screen and one of my main reasons for not appreciating K-movies are that a lot happened to have too many graphic explicit sex scenes and nudity, sometimes I think not even necessary. HK movies back in the 80's and 90's could do so well even without those elements. Award winning actress like Maggie Cheung never even stripped for the camera yet she had won so many accolades. That is why I tend not to favour K-movie actors. Their image totally not suitable to the wholesome decent image that I prefer in drama actors.

    • Shu Qi is still haunted from her b-movie days...I think this,was one if the reasons her current husband took so long to marry her. His family did not like Shu Qi's image...this is what I read, do not know the origin of the story. I also read somewhere that Shu Qi is trying to buy the rights from her b-movie days,so that she can have control and not let it air again. Either way, she is in movies now, but she always seems to play the sexy kitten type characters. At least she got married to her love now.

• Run girl run!

• I'm definitely out for this. It's just so yucky cos she's young enough to be his Daughter. Plus after all his personal indiscretions shenanigans, I can't separate reel from real.