@bammsie Let’s put up our contenders for a Pride and Prejudice k drama cast.

Jinyoung from B1A4 is Bingley, who else?

@rukia @mollyp @egads @wishfultoki @suriyana-shah @pakalanapikake @blnmom & any other literary Beanies (I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten to name you)



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    Oh, and is this a modern day retelling a la Bride and Prejudice etc. or a historical drama?

    Discuss.

    Oh, and I forgot @cloggie

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    So.. I feel really bad about this because Woo Do Hwan is a LOVE irl, but I feel like he could play a really good Wickham.

    (Why was this my first thought. Aghhhhhh.)

    I was also thinking Yoon Shi Yoon could carry a darn good Mrs Bennet, but I also feel bad for saying that. 😂

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      Why do I have to eat dinner when a discussion of this importance is happening??!
      💕 😍🤣

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      Ooooh, I like him for a modern day Wickham

      … Yoon Shi Yoon? cross dressing as Mrs. Bennet?

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        I was thinking of how crazy Enrique could get… But now I’m thinking about this lady from this one drama who would suit perfectly.

        And yes, I was thinking a modern-day Wickham, too.

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          Which lady from which drama? 🙂

          I’m not really a fan of Mrs. Bennet being played by a guy, or being as crazy as Enrique… She’s super silly and ridiculous but I would prefer someone who makes it realistic how she would be. And she does push her daughters to marry, and plays favorites, but I don’t think she has any active malice towards her daughters like several drama parents…

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            I actually agree, Coco. I just saw your profile pic and thought it would be hilarious, but I do want something more accurate

            Can’t currently remember the drama or name. Just. I know there’s SOMEONE.

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          Yoon Shi Yoon as Mrs Bennet… pffft LOLOLOL

          Of course, the really important question is who would accept the Mr. Collins role? I suggest that we make Mr. Collins a better specimen than what the BBC or film adaptations gave us. He is after all a “tall, heavy looking young man of five and twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal.”

          – Serious contender: I think Kang Ha Neul could totally pull this off, dressed in geeky clerical black.
          – ROFL contender: Park Seo Joon might earn Mr. Collins a few fans. (I mean, Park Seo Joon is my serious contender for Mr. Darcy the Proud Luffball, but he can play Mr. Collins in a parody of P&P).

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            😂 Yessssss to Kang Ha Neul!

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            It’s destiny. Park Seo Joon is meant to be Mr Collins, we now need to find him a suitable Charlotte. A girl with a pretentious father and a large family she helps support, who is practical and secretly a devious matchmaker (we all know she purposefully sent Lady Catherine off on Darcy to get him to confess)

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            How about Waikiki’s Jung In Sun as Charlotte (she’s short so it would look hilarious next to Park Seo Joon).

            I’m having trouble casting someone as Elizabeth! Will think about this.
            She needs to have fine eyes and be a compatible acting partner for Lee Min Ki.
            Jeon So-Min?

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            @wishfultoki I could totally see that!

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            Oooh, I like your idea for Charlotte! I think her and PSJ could do well in this nontraditional but comic turn as the couple!

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        I want this to happen so bad.

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      Yoo Ah in would be a cool modern day Mr. Wickham.

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    Darcy is so critical that I’m struggling to not just name favorites because their favorutes, but I do think Lee Min Ki could do the haughty, yet really just terribly socially inept well in a modern version.

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      That’s funny, I’m currently reading Pride and Prejudice and I’m picturing Darcy with Lee Min Ki 😂

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      Gosh, I love the idea of Lee Min Ki! It can’t be someone that is just usual chaebol jerk, because Darcy needs to be shown as the morally high ground, introverted but uptight ~

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      I agree with you on not naming favorites, which is kind of why I would love to hear other people’s suggestions instead of my own head which is currently filled with Park Seo Joon…

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        PSJ doing a comic turn as Collins? Subverting the typical casting of the role to the not-so-handsome, but PSJ could be beautiful yet so obnoxious.

        Wait, Namgoong Min could pull off a Collins spectacularly.

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          Y e s. 😂

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          Well, Collins is described in the novel as being tall, and being more suited for walking in the country and socializing than serious study (I guess why he gets so into his garden once he’s married).

          I like this idea of subverting it, maybe our modern day Collins is a good looking but dim witted office toady? Either actor could kill it, but I think I prefer Park Seo Joon. I’m imagining Namgoong Min now as one of the breezy fellow sailors in Persuasion, or Anne’s brother in law who liked her first.

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          PSJ could pull off a good looking Mr. Collins.

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          Namgoong Min can be our Colonel Fitzwilliam! Lee Min Ki’s more outgoing cousin who puts his foot in his mouth while trying to be a good wingman 😀

          Also then we could have PSJ and NM playing off each other in scenes at Rosings !!

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          And all this happened while I was writing up my suggestion for Mr. Collins above LOL.
          My head must be full of Park Seo Joon too.

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      Ooo, I think that would be just perfect.

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    Important question: Who is Elizabeth?

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    i majored in Literature in college so of course Pride and Prejudice is among my faves. I’ve thought about this before but don’t have a conclusive opinion set on casting yet.

    maybe Yoo SeungHo could be a good Darcy, he has that deep manly voice and when he’s mean he can be real mean yet melt into super sweet romance when needed

    Go Kyung Pyo could play Mr. Bingley as he never had good chemistry with Chae SooBin anyway and is always great at playing the super likable character. As for Mr. Wickham, maybe Park BoGum? he could probably play that part well…

    his chemistry was so great with Chae SooBin that I could see her playing a likable strong Lizzie…

    now that we’re talking about romantic British classics, I suddenly had visions of Jang Geunsuk as Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights and now I want this to happen LOL

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    Chingu, we also need a Bennet family ~ we have a Jane, we need Mary, Kitty, Lydia, and Mr and Mrs Bennet.

    I vote an annoying idol actress for Lydia and Kitty?

    Wait!! In the modern day one, Lydia and Kitty are aspiring idols, Mary is at university stressing about getting a job, and Jane, Lizzy, and Charlotte are overworked Seoulites.

    What are their jobs though?

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      Liszt is a drama writer of course, and Jane works for a cosmetics company that is just about to launch internationally.

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        *Lizzy

        Autocorrect strikes again

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        If she is a writer, especially a drama writer, she’ll think she is an expert on personalities and romance.

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          Hmmm…. I could see it ~ I just think there’s been a lot of drama writers in dramas lately. I think it would have to be a small company though, I don’t see Lizzy wanting to deal with a big company atmosphere, rather instead I see her as championing this small group, maybe Sir Lucas is the ceo or something, hence Charlotte’s connection. And Mrs Bennet wants her to work for a bigger, more stable company, and Darcy at first thinks they must be a small time, unambitious company and that he doesn’t have time to work with them.

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            true, there has been a lot of writers….maybe Lizzy as an up and coming Director struggling against a male dominated and controlled field.

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    Darcy- Gong Yoo/ So Ju sub/ slightly matured Yoo Ah In
    Wickham- Kim Woo Bin

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