- mishane -

Don’t go what you saw in Goong – YEH’s acting wasn’t that great and the drama really wasn’t that good.

CP and YEH’s acting as Eun Chan are on a totally diff. level (CP starts a little slow but gets really good around ep 6).

For instance, my only exposure to Gong Yoo prior to CP was his role as the school bully in “My Tutor Friend” and his lead role in “Spy Girl” – needless to say, I was underwhelmed.

GY’s role as Han Gyul in CP totally changed my opinion of him as an actor (it’s amazing what a good role in a very good series can do w/ one’s impression of an actor).

Honestly?

I’m not a big fan of hers. I don’t think she’s that attractive. I’m not flaming her, by any means, just saying that she’s not my cup of tea.

And I don’t understand why, either (I mean, why don’t I find her appealing?). She was okay in Goong, I mean, I liked her WHILE I was watching Goong. Maybe my irritation with her character spilled over onto the actress? Main reason why I still haven’t watched Coffee Prince. I’m just not that big of a fan.

But I do have irrational dislike towards a lot of actors (and at least I can admit that it’s irrational!). For example, HATE Sienna Miller (but that might be because she was with my main man, Jude Law). Also, HATE Kate Bosworth (which is strange because I didn’t mind her before she dated Orlando Bloom, but even after I stopped finding Bloom attractive, which was a WHILE ago, I still don’t really like her).

Hmm. . .I think this also stems from seeing a lot of ‘actors’ do all these promotional things, but without any merit, you know? Like Kate Bosworth. Not a great actor, yet she shows up to all these events all the time. I don’t get it. Why? Also Garcelle Bu’something. She hasn’t been in anything since the 90′s! Why does she show up to all the fashion and awards?

Eh, this was a long post. Anyways, I don’t really dislike YEH, I just haven’t had any reason to really like her. I’m hoping she does a project that I get really invested in.

I like her teeth, she’s normal just like us, she doesn’t fix what she was born with (I have no problem with stars getting surgery though because it’s their body what right do I have to call the plastic)

I find her acting endearing, I can’t stop watching her because I know each time she’s improving. There’s a lot of actresses in Korea who don’t even improve they stay the same and the only reason some people watch them is because of their face and how appealing they look when they act.

Heh. if I agree with you, but you disagree with me, does that mean that I disagree with myself?

Your points are good, but I’m not sure which parts are ones you disagree with me. Maybe we disagree with her portrayal of Shin Chae Kyung in Goong. I also think it was a little bit over the top and cutesy at parts, but that was part of the story. It starts off with “what if Korea was a constitutional monarchy and what if the crown prince was bound to marry a commoner”? With that kind of beginning, and Kang Nam (there is no such thing as “over the top”) Gil thrown in, and the fact that it is based off of a comic book, I am guessing they started down that road. Drama characters often change as the filming progresses, as actors get more comfortable with one another and start to develop their own ideas about how to play the roles.

If you watched the post drama interviews and other special stuff that are in the DVD box set, you might remember that JJH and YEH did not get along in the beginning, from the first sit-down walkthrough of the script, and it took a long time for them to be able to talk to each other about how they felt the roles were progressing. So, given the circumstances, I think that YEH did a good job in Goong, and I can imagine how badly the character of Shin Chae Kyung could have ended up. I would have had no qualms about stopping Goong and just buying something else.