Er… I can’t be the only one who finds this news random. The production company of upcoming spy drama Athena: Goddess of War has announced that a famous Hollywood screenwriter will be acting in the drama: It’s Douglas Day Stewart of 1980s hits The Blue Lagoon and An Officer and a Gentleman.
In the drama, Stewart plays the head of Athena, which, like IRIS in the original series IRIS, is a secret underground organization. He’s therefore the “key to the secret” in a number of cases; he’s also the fierce, poker-faced boss who gives baddie Cha Seung-won his orders, which explains the stills pictured here.
So how’d Stewart get involved in the first place? According to a rep from Taewon Entertainment, Athena’s production company, he caught their eye at auditions held in Hawaii, which is one of the drama’s numerous foreign shoot locales. Apparently they liked him right away and cast him without knowing of his credits as a writer, which they discovered after bringing him onboard.
The stills with co-star Su Ae were filmed in Hawaii as well, and the production plans to head to New Zealand next; they’ll travel at the end of November.
Athena will air following Giant beginning in December.
Via Star News
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Not going to lie, in the second picture he looks pretty badass.
I wonder what’s going on and why he decided to act and in a KDrama no less…
Still, It’s so nice to see that parts of hollywood are aware of a life and culture outside of themselves.
So. Random.
hahaha
totally random….so this means we’re going to be hearing lots of engrish from cha seung won :p
IKR T___T
err…..o…..k? haha
well, whatever case, i just want to watch this drama now! but maybe i should finish IRIS first. lol.
I..don’t know what to do with this information haha.
I wonder if he was passing by and randomly decided to audition or if he made a special trip?
I was not really interested in this drama, but this news intrigues me and agreed…he’s badass.
Sorry my attention is on her boots! Dang~
same here, I would last less than 5 minutes in something like that
same here too!!
i want that boots!!
i think for him any job is a good job XD oh well he probably doesn’t know how popular the show might be
random but i love the girl’s boots in the last pic lol
love them on her. on me? not so much. i’d take 2 steps and fall over. still, they’re nice to look at.
hope she doesn’t have to run in them.
hahahaha i would love them on me lol i love heels again random but i have a friend called Nana! lol
wow nz as well….no one ever goes there lol….hope they come to oz as well
I second that, I would totally go see them if they go to melb
random… so random… especially the movies he wrote… i suppose we should be expecting some English from Cha Seungwon then.
you know what would be equally random, but awesome? if they got a Korean actor/actress to cameo in Hawaii Five-0! they’re always over there anyway – it makes perfect sense
Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) is part of the Hawaii Five-O main cast. He was born in Busan.
I hope CSW’s English is not horrendous, I don’t want to ruin my sexy, sexy image of him. Now, if he spoke English decently, well then I might just keel over from the amount of hotness and charisma he oozes multiplied the fact that he is speaking it in a language I can understand. Ow OW!
Lol, seems like I’m not the only one who’s more interested in the boots!
wow it’s gonna be filmed in NZ too? cooollll.. maybe i’ll get to see them around B-)..
I know! Exciting, I wonder which part of NZ they’re going to be filming – finally a chance to get a slice of the kdrama-celeb-spotting action! =p
Nice…I’ll be in Wellington in 2 weeks.
uhhhh – is Stewart’s career on the decline so he decided to act in a kdrama just for the heck of it? or is he a secret Cha Seung Won worshipper?
either way – he seems to have a big part, since we never got to see the head of IRIS – only heard his voice, if i recall correctly…
Stewart’s Angels, amirite?
“Apparently they liked him right away and cast him without knowing of his credits as a writer, which they discovered after bringing him onboard. ”
haha yeah… apparentlyă…‹
love her shoes in the last picture so hot.
CHASEUNGWON.
ooh I want the boots! oops..interesting info.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I want Cha Seung Won’s character with Kim So Yeon who just been confirmed to appear in ATHENA as soon as DR. Champ finishes filming! AHH!!!
More so because I’m already rooting for Jung Woo Sung & Su Ae!
oooh..my apologies…this is so off topic! BUT the header of
Lee Syeon-Gyoon is mega hot!!!
he could also be potentially marketing the Athena casts members for Hollywood purposes.
Whatever they say, I don’t buy it at all.
This is what I call, “putting your foot in the door.”
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Haha…have to admit that the shoes grabbed my attention. It looks super good but I think it probably is very uncomfortable!!
Maybe he can speak some Korean..looolll.. Koreish instead of engrish…:)
Dustin Hoffman look-a-like?
Ooooh, Cha Seung-won looks good in white polo shirt!
Hehe he kind of look like Dustin Hoffman but taller. He could also pass for a mafia crime boss on the 2nd picture which I like.
CSW seemed to have lost weight. He looks leaner than his usual self. I hope he’s fully recovered. Can’t help noticing that even with Soo Ae’s high-heeled shoes, CSW still towers over her. =)
I can’t remember its name, but Tony Curtis had a large role in a Kdrama not too many years ago. This one was also set in Hawai’i
Seriously?!? Tony Curtis?!?
Yes-He was a plantation owner in Hawai’i in that drama. I can’t remember too much about it (some of these dramas all blend together after a while), but his role was very prominent in it-it was not just a cameo. I seem to remember the female lead was his maid,or something like that. Anyway, I can’t find any mention of it in his film and TV credits in Wikipedia.
Heh-Google is my friend. Man,how time flies! this drama was in ’94-’95. I was sure I watched it just a few years ago. it was called ‘Ingan ui ddang’ (‘Land of the people’), and it was set in Mexico-it was about a group of Koreans who immigrated to Mexico in 1903. He was the cruel overseer on the plantation where they were enslaved.
That’s so random, but…can he act? I mean, it doesn’t look like a tiny role so, um.
So this random article is about how random the article is?
Mr Cha looks so fine. Is Su Ae’s skirt going to be anymore shorter than that? -)
mr cha looks so handsome, last time so handsome, nowadays also so handsome.
OMG! ‘The Legs’ looked mighty fine and crisp in white shirt! Super smexy..!
They are coming to New Zealand!!
WHERE?! I want to catch a glimpse.