A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and Lee Chae Min to Start Filming This Week on January 23rd
So the timing seems off to kick start filming right before the lunar new year holiday stretch but likely this drama was already delayed after needing to re-cast the male lead. Sageuk romance A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and Lee Chae Min will start filming this week on January 23rd. Complaints from netizens have ended after original male lead Park Sung Hoon stepped down after his scandal posting an image of a porn parody video of his currently airing Netflix show Squid Game 2. I still think Park Sung Hoon was well cast but ultimately the real life issues would have overshadowed the drama and that would not be fair to the production. Here’s the hoping Lee Chae Min improves massively now that he’s stepped up to the male lead role.
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Lee Chaemin seems like such a random choice but can see why if they have like a week to recast in time for filming to start relatively on time. Good luck to the production! Must have been a stressful month!
I still don't understand this choice of actor... There are a lot of older actors who are better for this kind of role.
Probably no veteran, even if they’re not famous, willing to take this kind of hot potato
Less than two weeks between his casting and the start of filming. They were really up against the wall! No wonder they ended up with this random actor.
From the story description this drama sounds like it will be female-centric so Yoona will have to carry the drama. The director is very experienced so maybe the drama will be OK if he can get a decent performance from Yoona, their chemistry is good and LCM is relatively convincing. I am more interested in the chef part of the plot so I hope the drama has lots of delicious cooking and food scenes.
Bland and blander... will see how this turns out.
Please surprise me and exceed my expectations!