This full lead casting will be so perfect and epic but there are still too many moving parts to celebrate just yet. K-actor Jang Seung Jo may join the upcoming melodrama healing romance Chocolate as the second male lead, with offers out to Yoon Kye Sang and Ha Ji Won as the main leads with the script penned by famed drama writer Lee Kyung Hee. When she does a drama right it sings to me like an opera, so rich and layered and touches me to the core like her Thank You and Sang Doo, Let’s Go to School and Nice Guy. I didn’t love I’m Sorry, I Love You but many did, and her last drama Uncontrollably Fond was basically 19 episodes of prelude leading up to a final episode of killer tear duct emotional release. Chocolate is the romance between a doctor and a top chef in a world of last days patient care and it sounds both melancholy and hopeful. I hope all leads rumored leads sign on so I can start getting excited about this one. Continue reading
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