Han Ye-seul a possibility for Twilight sequel?
It is being reported (strategically leaked?) that Han Ye-seul, who is currently acting in the new SBS melodrama series Will It Snow For Christmas?, recently took a secret meeting with Mark Morgan, CEO of Imprint Entertainment, the production company behind Twilight and New Moon. Naturally, this has given rise to speculation that Han Ye-seul’s Hollywood debut may come in the third film of the Twilight saga, Eclipse.
News of the meeting was confirmed by a source related to the “Phone Hollywood remake project,” which is also under Imprint’s purview. Han quietly met with Morgan and film producer Michael Becker on December 5 at an undisclosed location in Seoul. (They were in the country to announce the Phone remake at a press conference on the 3rd.)
I’d take the possibility of a Twilight appearance with a huge grain of salt — I think it’s more likely she’d be cast for Phone — but apparently it’s not out of the question. The source avoided the direct question of Han’s casting potential for Eclipse, but when Chosun Ilbo’s reporter asked whether one could “take an optimistic outlook” about it, the answer was “Yes.” Meanwhile, Phone‘s director had said at the recent press conference that he’d like to cast a Korean actress. The horror remake will use a Korean crew and director, but plans to cast American actors.
In general, this isn’t surprising news, since Han has been keeping an eye out for Hollywood opportunities since last year. I think her acting ranges from merely passable (Tazza) to bright and cute (Fantasy Couple, Miss Gold Digger), and on the whole it’s much improved from her early days. Furthermore, she’s one of few Korean actresses whose English is fluent without an accent and she grew up in California, so unlike some other stars attempting the crossover, language isn’t an issue. Language fluency also opens the door for her to take on roles outside the role of the stereotypical Asian Other — e.g., the ubiquitous assassin or martial artist a la Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Byung-heon, or Rain.
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Hollywood..more money…
Living here so long already. I can say that it’s hard for asians to gain success in Hollywood. With the exception of Lucy Liu and Zhang. The general audience is intriged when “crouching tiger” came out. So Zhang became a breakout star. But after that there hasn’t been any films that caught their interest again. They got bore after being amuse with all the flying swordmans.
But i love to see that day …whenever it will come.
errmmm… Han YeSeul in another Twilight movie??? not interested…
as a non-twilight fans, i watched New Moon twice just to see Jacob Black, it was quite something on the first time i watched (chanting “he’s not legal, he’s not legal”, Quoted from langdon813 on open thread), but when i saw the second time, i don’t know, i just don’t find him quite as interesting as the first time (gets bricked!!), hey, even the chanting has gone…
I guess it could be good for her *is doubtful* but god I hope not. Twilight. Ick.
Let’s say she gets casted for Twilight sequel, which character would she play? Can’t think of any characters that would fit her. And I think it would be odd to see her in that movie. I don’t know, I just don’t see her in it. So I guess this is just another publicity stunt or whatever. Wish her luck for Phone and other hollywood projects.
But her English is accented. It’s just not as bad as other Koreans.
If they’re doing a remake for Phone why cast a Korean as the lead again?
It’ll be cool to see her in the sequels. As an advocate Twilight fan (the books & not so much of the movies – so don’t diss without have had experienced it<3) I have no idea which character she'll play.. Would be great to see another Korean in the series though
^ I always thought her English was perfectly fine. It’s just that when she speaks English in a Korean drama, the enunciation gets drawn out a little funny — like how my English gets wonky when I’ve been speaking Korean for too long. Even the Caucasian actors with no accents tend to overemphasize their lines in kdramas, perhaps for the benefit of a Korean audience.
If she is going to be in a Hollywood film, I would definitely watch it. Because I know she can speak English well from watching Fantasy Couple.
It can’t be for Eclipse since the filming for that was already finished/post production stage already since it’s comin out this summer. So maybe for Breaking Dawn, maybe as one of the nomad friends who comes to fight against the Volturi? But more than likely she might be in Phone.
Oi the troubles of bilingualism….once I start using one too long, the other starts to disappear.
she definately pretty enough to be a vampire lol
@ 5
Same here. I thought she has an accent, too. I watched an interview of her for Reebok, she was speaking English fluently but her accent was pretty evident. Regardless, she is gorgeous and speaks English well so good luck to her and hoping for her success.
oooh, that’s interesting…..! but i too think that it can not be Eclipse… It’s practically half way through filming…. i think…
Possibly BK….
And she’s got perfectly understandable English…it doesn’t really matter if she’s got a bit of accent… i’m happy for her…..
Good for her! I think it’s really hard for asians to break into the Hollywood scene. As an anti-twilighter, I’m thinking “Bleh…..Eeeew” but since it has such a HUGE fan base (and might I add annoying, lol) she’ll probably get better exposure.
i think for her sake and career she should not do eclipse because it is a terrible terrible series.
@ 8- I was thinking the same thing, that it’s probably Breaking Dawn. It would seem to make sense b/c they have vampires from all over the world in that one.
I have a love/hate (mostly hate at this point) relationship with the Twilight series so i’m not sure why i’m posting….I think it’s to distract me from the paper i’m writing that’s due in 7 hours.
JB, I found her English in Tazza was more than just drawn-out enunciation. It was heavily accented, although better than most. But I don’t think her accent is the most concerning aspect of a Hollywood crossover. The most important thing determining her success or failure in Hollywood should be her acting.
I think that if she makes it in a twilight sequel it will be in breaking dawn,not eclipse. Reason being that they already filmed eclipse and if this news is like yesterday or this week recent, iits too late. And also breaking dawn has tons of new important vampires, so she could be one of them. Hopefully she’s on the good side *^_^*
HYS actually sounds like a girl who grew up in so Cal but hung around Koreans. Didn’t she live in Cerritos which has a huge Korean population? All I know is that she has that certain LA Korean accent that I notice among these Korean Americans… not that there is anything wrong with it.
They’ve already finished Eclipse, so the most she can hope for is to be either an anonymous vampire extra, or lunch meat for the vamps (WHO SPARKLE IN THE SUN WTFROFLMAOOMGWTH!!!)
“Didn’t she live in Cerritos which has a huge Korean population?”
Yup. She has a stereotypical SoCal K-Am accent (though yes staying in Korea has drawn it out a bit more, and she doesn’t talk as fast as one normally would.)
You take a Chinese accent, throw a Mexican accent on top of it, and every other line throw in some valley speak. There ya go.
*disappears behind tree*
WOW!!! it looks more interesting for me to watch the twilight saga: eclipse, hope she will do well.
Han Ye Seul is gorgeous on that picture
Embarrassingly enough, I’ve read all of the Twilight books (meak voice: please do not judge me…) I mean…which vampire could she possibly play? *POSSIBLE BREAKING DAWN SPOILER ALERT!!!* I guess there are a bunch of extra, American vampires in the book, but honestly, that’s nothing to be excited about unless they really change up some of the scenes. But if I remember correctly, the American accents should be distinct in the movie, considering Stephanie Meyer highlighted the regions and time periods of the vampires. *END SPOILER*
Basically: As a Twilight reader (yes yes…harharhar insert ridicule here), I have no recollection of a distinct character that she could play, ALTHOUGH it is very possible. Furthermore, the role would be quite small based on my knowledge of the book so I’m guessing the meeting was more about the movie, Phone, than Twilight.
I only read Twilight (and detested it) so Twilight fans: What character could Han Ye-Seul play? Plus isn’t she a little old? Or am I wrong in thinking that most of the characters in the books are teens?
I wish her luck , sadly It’s Twilight…
Actually I dont mind Twilight the movie, when I dont have to read pages of SPARKLES my eyes can get some rest gazing at those gorgeous trees. and the simple fact that it’s much easier to tolerate sth gritting on your nerves for 2 hours than spending exponentially more time treading thro trillions of Steph Meyer’s choice of words. Mrmook wanna check out the werewolves in New Moon in theatre, told him watching Twilight first is a must and after getting a taste of ‘ your blood is my personal brand of heroin’ he is still in disbelief those were per batim. He concludes sad vampire fr Conan’s silly gigs is hotter than Edward. Yet when I reminded him he’s Cedric, whom he’s agreed to be good looking, he gave me a WTH?!
But can I just state my honest no biased opinion her acting regressed in just the couple min I saw her in Christmas?! very sore thumb in a well acted melodrama. imo she’s an one act pony who can do shtick well.
I don’t think they will cast her for Eclipse because the film is already finished (in post-production) and I don’t think they will cast for Breaking Dawn now because it’s still not decided IF and WHEN Breaking Dawn will start filming. So… I think this is just a rumour… and I don’t think she would fit into a movie series like Twilight.
I like here, just finished watching Fantasy Couple and I think her English is Good…. “PRINCESS WERE ARE YOU???” LOLS~~^^
The Twilight saga so far really blows…so if someone, anyone, can be recruited to make it better…please!!
All the actors have such low energy on screen, it makes my teeth grind. ESPECIALLY Stewart. Holy crap. She gets the facial expressions right, but it’s like she’s set on emo-low. Charlie always brings energy when he’s in a scene. Charlie, who’s barely important.
But…I LOVE the nature scenes. I meeesss the NW. I haven’t seen anyone wearing socks with their sandals in Korea, or the t-shirt and vest combo. I actually miss that! ^^
Anyway, I vote Kim Kang-woo as a vampire. Now THAT would be cool.
even if her english is fine, i wonder if it’s the same acting in a different languages. I feel like a lot of people’s acting is a little stunted if they’ve never acting in that language before. regardless of their fluency.
“i wonder if it’s the same acting in a different languages.”
Let’s put it this way. When she did Nonstop 4, she actually said “whateverS” in English. She not only Asian. She AzN.
I think she’ll act better in English than Korean.
I don’t think she will be casted for Twilight. Eclipse is finish filming and Breaking Dawn has no asian characters. Also I would love to see her in Twilight but i don’t think it’s really possible. I think the “Phone” is more accurate.
I dont think that there’s a big chance this would be for ECLIPSE because filming wrapped for the movie back in early November before New Moon came out.
I can’t think of an Asian character for Breaking Dawn, but if she’s amongst the throng of Volutri vampires that is a possibility.
Good luck to her, hope her luck is better than Gianna Jun (also vampire), why always vampire2 nowdays and everywhere,..other ghosts are losing their popularity already.
Btw, I always wonder how just average (in acting) actresses (not only her) manage to get big offer-their company must be very smart lobbying I think.
As many others have already mentioned, Eclipse already finished filming and its in post-production.
I don’t see how she could be in Breaking Dawn since there are no obvious choice of who she could even play since the female vampire extras in it are not Asian at all.
Also the production company behind the Twilight movies is Summit Entertainment. I have never heard of Imprint Entertainment being a part of the Twilight movies. So bs indicator there.
Oh, carp. I hope she will not do any Twilight movies because she will be wasting her acting on those horrible books and movies. I think she should just stick with Phone remake rather than Twilight movies. Just thinking about that makes me ill.
Yeah, I doubt she’s going to be apart of the Twilight series, so I really wonder why they seem to be pushing this rumour. (Or purposely avoiding the questions about it.)
It just seems very unlikely, especially since they mentioned Eclipse, which has finished filming already. And even if it was Breaking Dawn, again, unlikely.
Her english is very good, but she definitely does have a slight korean accent/tone to it. So when JB says that she has no accent when speaking in english, I go..
o_o…
I don’t know, maybe where some people live in the states, that accent is the norm there for the korean-americans (somebody mentioned that’s how the LA korean-american accent is?) because when I hear Brian Joo or Tiffany (SNSD) speak, it doesn’t have that same korean tone to it that Han Yeseul has.
Ahh, I just checked Brian Joo’s wiki page, and it says he was born and raised in LA, so maybe it’s just Han Yeseul? lol. Tiffany was born in LA as well, but then moved somewhere else in Cali.
But her slight accent definitely wouldn’t be an obstacle to her crossover, that’s for sure because her english is very good. (If Rain can do it, then I’m sure she can too. lol.)
if she does it i might watch the movie (i don’t like twilight)
Well, even if the Twilight franchise is horrible it still has a very, very large fan base. Never mind if that’s the reputation, any actor/actress who appears in those movies will get such vast exposure to the US audience, much more than Phone can ever hope for. So I do wish for HYS to get a part in Twilight because it will be good for her career.
I agree with the others, HYS does have an accent. I’m not from California so I don’t know what it is, just that it’s a bit distinct and not a valley girl accent (I think).
Wow – I think it’s interesting that there is discussion about someone who was born & raised in the US – whether her english is good. What are they teaching in Cali? =) hehe… anyhow – good luck to her. I think it’s a tough changeover.
agree with the mediocre actor on han’s part
but she definitely has an accent, its just there; don’t think its because shes been speaking korean for too long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5UJjPAIsuU
“(somebody mentioned that’s how the LA korean-american accent is?)”
That’s more the exaggerated version of the accent (and yes a lot of K-Ams, just like other Asian Americans also have a regular American regional accent too.) First time I heard Han Ye Seul talk, I was like “homegirl from Cerritos!!” And there ya go.
Guys gotta understand — we have such strong Asian American enclaves in SoCal that a lot of 2nd generation kids still speak the mother tongue in their household and amongst some friends.
Actually Kara from Nicole has the perfect Cali K-Am accent.
As for The Brian . . . dude from Jersey. You can leave Jersey, but Jersey never leaves you.
I’m not too familiar with different Asian American accents but if I spoke to HYS on the phone and didn’t know who she was, I would definitely be able to tell that I’m talking to an Asian, whereas if I spoke to someone like Tiffany (SNSD), I would never have guessed that she’s Asian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv94zqsUDfM
@ 42 belleza
As for The Brian . . . dude from Jersey. You can leave Jersey, but Jersey never leaves you.
Being from Jersey, I’d love to hear his accent.
I love discussions on Asian actors speaking English. I’m so intrigued by it. I think the best English speaker is still Jung Rye Won (spelling??). Even though she has an Australian accent, her English was basically PERFECT in MNIKSS.
Eugene’s English was pretty good in Wonderful Life but I notice that in Creating Destiny, she’s got a bit on an accent and the enunciation seems to be on the wrong syllables sometimes. It sounds a little awkward.
I’m going to youtube these vids of so called good English speakers!
And I only heard Han Ye Seul speak english in Fantasy Couple. From what I remember, it was pretty good, but there was still a little bit of an accent.
I mentioned this before, but Han Ye Seul is SUCH a “Leslie.” You know, the ones that didn’t do so great at school but was really popular and “most pretty” and hung around all the preppy AzN student body people and giggled her way through school. You know, the type that ends up at UC Irvine.
“Being from Jersey, I’d love to hear his accent. ”
The Brian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJtRLWsv2U
(Brian talks hood, yet he’s looking for a CHURCH-GOING wife. Praise Geezus. Praise Pac. Yup, that’s the K-Am experience right there yo lol)
“whereas if I spoke to someone like Tiffany (SNSD), I would never have guessed that she’s Asian.”
Oh Tiff’s from Diamond Bar. That area’s more of the Chinese wing.
Notice how she talks a little through her teeth (and calls “korea” –> Kerrrrea.) A lot of SoCal gyopos do that and don’t really notice they do. 
@ belleza
Are you kidding? Diamond Bar was all Korean when I was growing up, Irvine was the Chinese hood. Or am I mistaken? Ah, who cares, love your analogy regardless. Always makes me want to snarf up my pocky (in a good way).
“Are you kidding? Diamond Bar was all Korean when I was growing up, Irvine was the Chinese hood.”
Hmm . . . come to think of it, you may be right — I only hung around the Chinese parts of Diamond Bar because we liked the bakeries there.
Irvine’s just . . . Irvine, you know? It’s like this black hole that every OC Asian person tries to claw out off because they’re utterly sick of repeating their high school experience in college. University of Chinese Immigrants is the “not again!!” of universities for SoCal Asian folks.
(Which gets the next questions: well, what about UCLA? UCLA is UC of LAZN. Balla yo!!)
Werd. Irvine just *is*
Hubby would have rather poked out his left eyeball and ates it rather than move to Irvine. Doesn’t mean he don’t wants to go there to eats them thar food. But living there is *soul-crushing* and obliterates any reason to be schooled in the US in the first place.
Uhhh BTW to anybody offended . . . uhm, UCI is a perfectly fine school and I love the trees and anti-jaywalking laws and uhhh the doughnut-style layout of your school and if I need to carjack a Camry or Civic, there’s no better place. Irvine is great. Great!!
haha…I just watched the Seoulbeats interview w/Brian and…
“You can leave Jersey, but Jersey never leaves you. “ And that be the truth…
Man, I don’t think my Jersey accent was ever that strong before I moved down South…
@ belleza
OMG he’s super adorable! I think I’m in love, even though I have no idea who he is.
Also, no accent!
The girl, Tiffany?, she has basically no accent. If anything, she sounds kind of like a valley girl.
So wait, these singers are born and raised in the States and travel to Korea to get a career?
When I was younger (17 or so), my mom wanted me to go to the Philippines to become an MTV VJ or actress, but I had no idea how to speak the language. I wonder if they already knew or if they had to learn.
And if their bandmates think any differently of them because of it.
Interesting.
@ 50 Taohua
You heard a Jersey accent?
I didn’t hear one at all. All I heard was maybe someone trying to speak with a little slang, that’s it.
I don’t have a Jersey accent (at least I don’t think I do!!!) since I went to boarding school out of state, but my friend Autumn does and when she talks, you can tell.
She’ll say: “Let’s go to tha mawl” aka “Let’s go to the mall”.
With Brian I didn’t hear a Jersey accent.
“If anything, she sounds kind of like a valley girl. ”
Exactly. If you meet a SoCal AzN girl with a valley accent, she’s either from the Valley . . . or she’s Korean.
“I didn’t hear one at all. All I heard was maybe someone trying to speak with a little slang, that’s it. ”
Brian’s talking hood, but it sounds East Coast-y to me. I’d love to hear if he has a Guido in him.
Brian’s speaking with a bit too much respect to be speaking guido. *shudder*
I’d like to see him with his other Jersey friends. The Asian Guido syndrome probably pops out then.
Things I’ve heard from an asian guido at my college frat parties? “Yo yo yo, can I get yo number. You lookin’ real fine girl.” It’s just. Laughable.
I notice it with a lot of my Asian friends. Stick them with a group of white people and they adapt their tone of voice/language. Take them out clubbing with guidos and they sleaze it up. I remember in high school, the majority of my friends were black, and I was considered Blasian. Oh man, have you ever seen an Asian guy try to act hood? Well imagine a 5’2, 86 pound Asian girl acting hood.
BTW, that new reality show about the Jersey Guidos make me deeply ashamed to be from Jersey. Although I have to say that most of those guidos are from Staten Island (NY!!!!) and not from NJ. I mean, the worst are from Staten Island. Jersey Shore has its share of guidos, but not nearly as bad or as much.
“Well imagine a 5′2, 86 pound Asian girl acting hood. ”
LOL welcome to K-town in the City of Los Scandalous.
“Things I’ve heard from an asian guido at my college frat parties? “Yo yo yo, can I get yo number. You lookin’ real fine girl.” I”
Ahahahahahaha!!!!! Muscle shirt/wifebeater too?
BTW for the SoCal fam, here’s an Asian guido. So macho it’s homoerotic. So stupid it’s pre-homosapien.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC3cTXGICkM
@mishane
. But even still I woulld’ve pegged him from the NY/NJ area. North East Coast-y definitely.
Sounds south Jersey to me but it’s been years since I’ve been around Jersey speakers with strong accents..and maybe it’s because I grew up in Jersey City…and growing up all the kids tried to sound cool by speaking slang and he sounds like a lot like them (oh could there be a more ghetto-y place? And I speak this with love
Oh and you don’t have to know the language necessarily to join a Korean idol group. Jaybeom the former leader for 2pm who left because of a myspace controversy didn’t speak Korean before joining 2pm. And Nickchun another member of 2pm is not Korean (he’s half Thai/half Chinese and was scouted by JYP in the US), neither is Han Geng in Super Junior who is Chinese. And I think all of them can speak Korean to some fluency now.
“So wait, these singers are born and raised in the States and travel to Korea to get a career?”
Pretty much. They might be able speak and sing perfect English, but they would never make it in America and hence try to start something up in Korea.
“I think the best English speaker is still Jung Rye Won (spelling??). Even though she has an Australian accent, her English was basically PERFECT in MNIKSS.”
You really think so? I thought her English was decent, but by no means perfect. Come to think of it, I can’t recall a k-drama in which there was a actor or actress who spoke perfect English.
How cool would it be if all our favorite k-drama stars were to gain the ability to speak perfect English? OMG just the thought of Kim So Eun with a Californian accent would be like, totally awesome dude ^_^ Actually….no. After just visualizing (audiolizing?) that in my head, I’d rather her stick to Korean and do Oppp-ppaa all day long
@ 55 Belleza
Ahahahahahaha!!!!! Muscle shirt/wifebeater too?
Kinda. Black muscle tee and jeans. Greasy spiked hair.
And that video is scary. Although I do like that Benny Bennasi (sp?) song.
@ 56 Taohua
Yeah, I hear the Jersey accent most on the shore. I went to college in Union, near the Newark area and my friend lives in Jersey City and I don’t hear the Jersey accent much there. More of just slang.
That’s cool about the boy band thing. Maybe I should have taken my moms advice then.
Time for an embarrassing story:
Back in high school, remember when Chingy came out? Yeah. I kind of talked like that. “Right thurrr right thurrr. I like da way you move it right thurr right thurrr”.
@ 57 Kobe
I thought JRW English was great but it has been over a year since I’ve seen it so I might be wrong. I compared it to everyone else that I’ve heard, and it was the best. Also, I thought the Australian accent was cute.
BTW I’m watching Creating Destiny right now and MAN has Eugene’s accent gone to shit. I thought it was adorable in Wonderful Life. In episode 4 of CD, it’s cringe-worthy.
Rain’s in Ninja Assasin wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great. He messed up a few times and it seemed like they filmed most of his speaking scenes with his mouth away from the camera so it was probably dubbed in later.
LBH i GI Joe was also mediocre. Still accented. A few awkward scenes.
Yeah, I’d love to hear a Korean actor (in a Korean drama, not US) speak perfect English but I don’t think that would be possible. Like people mentioned above, it’s hard to remain bilingual with perfect accents. You’d have to constantly be talking in it.
I kind of wonder how Daniel Henney got hired in Korea. Aren’t Koreans insulted that he doesn’t try to learn the language? Like, let me go over to the Philippines and be an actress but not speak the language. It doesn’t make sense.
Oh on that Girls Generation video, where is the girl with the short hair from (Tiffany? Jessica?)? The brown haired girl sounds LA but the girl next to her doesn’t. And if she moved to Korea when she was 10, I’m surprised that she kept her English. Kudos to her!
On JRW’s English…I thought in MNIKSS it wasn’t supposed to be fluent since she had only been in the US for a few years based on the plot line. I remember watching Which Star (Planet?) Are You From? later and realizing that her English is actually better than what she spoke in MNIKSS. It was almost like, “She’s really fluent?” Kind of how I felt when I saw a clip of Lee Sun Ho in Snow Queen and thinking “Oh that weird way of speaking Korean in Tamna was him just acting.”
It would be good news if she really take a role in a Hollywood film! Good luck to her!
The girl with the short hair is Jessica. The one to the left is Tiffany.
Interesting discussion going on here. HYS definitely has an accent, if you’re not hearing it you’ve been hanging out with Koreans too much. It’s perfectly intelligible and fluent, but her accent is dead obvious. She has unnatural use (or lack) of articles, the atypical word choice affectations like “those stuff” and “the fashionable out[er]wears” (note the extraneous ‘s’–i half expected her to say “those stuffs” as well). Definitely identifiable as a Korean-influenced speech pattern.
Tiffany doesn’t quite have an accent but if I only heard her speaking I might guess that she’s Korean (or, as she might put it, “Krean”). I’m not sure how to describe it–she kind of talks like her mouth is small, and cuts vowels a little shorter than would be standard for American English. BTW in my experience that SoCal Korean accent (not quite the same as a Valley girl accent) isn’t limited to Cali Koreans.
As for Brian…I’m not hearing the Jersey accent, but I live here and I don’t think I really have an accent so I may not be the best judge.
I don’t really know much about Twilight, but from the impression I get, isn’t HYS older than what they would be looking for?
“SoCal Korean accent (not quite the same as a Valley girl accent)”
First time I heard a “hard” SoCal Korean accent (when I was a kid), it sounded like Chinese-meets-Mexican-meets-Valley accent to me. By the end of high school, I was talking the same way. Sometimes I don’t hear it anymore because where I currently live is surrounded by it still.
I have a Chinese-American accent too. If you look for it, you can hear it.
“I kind of wonder how Daniel Henney got hired in Korea. Aren’t Koreans insulted that he doesn’t try to learn the language?”
Actually a rather big deal that a mixed-race guy was even accepted at all, let alone loved, in a K-drama (as opposed to Japan, which fetishizes that.) Very rare. FWIW, he can converse in Korean now.
“cuts vowels a little shorter than would be standard for American English. ”
That’s part of the give-away. The point of resonance is lower than typical American or English. The vowels are flattened a little.
“She has unnatural use (or lack) of articles, the atypical word choice affectations like “those stuff” and “the fashionable out[er]wears” (note the extraneous ’s’–i half expected her to say “those stuffs” as well).”
Nicole of Kara is really interesting. Her English pronunciation is fluent, but the words come across as if she’s thinking in Korean as she’s talking.
“I don’t really know much about Twilight, but from the impression I get, isn’t HYS older than what they would be looking for?”
Yes, but allow for the Asian Age multiplier and her Hollywood age is now 19-21 years old. She might even still get carded.
There’s an Asian dude playing a HS student in Twilight. He’s 28 years old.
I think it would be nice to have her in the hollywood movies:D the edge she has over rain, lee byeong hyun and jeon ji hyun is that she can speak english! and she has a nice voice:D heh heh. fell in love with her in tazza…
This is an interesting thread… are any of you linguistics majors?
@65 belleza Nicole’s Korean isn’t that good…she’s attending a few university classes for a show, and she failed a few of them because her limited Korean. She’s very fluent in english since she was born and grew up in the US. I’ve noticed though that at first her english was fine, then she had a bit of an accent, and now she speaks haltingly. Probably getting a bit rusty? She did just move to Korea 3 years ago, from Glendale, California
Anybody here have an opinion on Crown J’s accent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xBmGPCeeiU
“I’ve noticed though that at first her english was fine, then she had a bit of an accent, and now she speaks haltingly. Probably getting a bit rusty?”
I think when she speaks English, she’s now thinking in Korean. That happens a lot when you stay in a foreign country for a long time. So even if English was her first language, the sentences come out interesting. Han Ye Seul is doing that too. Her pronunciation is fluent (yes, there’s the heavy accent), but the way she puts sentences together is sometimes off from what would be colloquial English in America. (which is suggesting she’s still kinda thinking in Korean even when she’s talking to Americans.) That’s more pronounced than it was a few years ago.
“Anybody here have an opinion on Crown J’s accent?”
TICAL!!!!! Where Meth and Redman at?
someone might have already point this out, but eclipse is already on the post production stage.. so primary shooting is already finished and if its in breaking dawn… there are no character she could fit in… sorry….
Jaymee is right. She can’t play in Eclipse cause it already finished shooting. But I think in Breaking Dawn could be, the reason is there will be the part which many Vampire from all over the world come to help the Cullen against the Volturi. However, according to the description of characters in the book, seems she couldn’t fit in any.
Anyway, who know…????