Suspense drama W–Two Worlds preps for inter-dimensional romance

117 May 23, 2016May 23, 2016

Suspense drama W–Two Worlds preps for inter-dimensional romance

by girlfriday

Cast and crew gathered at the first table read for MBC’s new summer romance suspense drama W–Two Worlds, the drama formerly known as W. I’m actually glad about the title change, because googling a one-letter title is no fun for anybody. Lee Jong-seok (Pinocchio) and Han Hyo-joo (Dong Yi) headline the fantasy romance between a man and a woman living in two parallel universes existing concurrently in present-day Seoul.

The new 16-episode Wednesday-Thursday drama comes from writer Song Jae-jung, who is an expert at interweaving two universes into one story (see: her previous time-space-benders Nine and Queen Inhyun’s Man), and PD Jung Dae-yoon of last year’s hit rom-com She Was Pretty. The drama is about two worlds coexisting in the same space—one is the reality as we know it, and the other is a fantasy realm—but the two worlds collide when Lee Jong-seok and Han Hyo-joo’s characters meet.

Lee Jong-seok plays a former Olympic gold medalist in shooting who made it big as a venture capitalist and became a young chaebol. Well, as far as dramaland chaebols go, this is a step up from a guy who inherits his fortune from an angry chairman dad. He’s described as a cool-headed geeeeenius, though they don’t even tell us what kind of genius he is.

Han Hyo-joo plays an affectionate, outgoing, lively second-year resident in cardiothoracic surgery. Her father (Kim Eui-sung, Six Flying Dragons) is an ill-tempered comic book artist who goes missing one day, and when the heroine goes looking for Dad, she finds a bloody Lee Jong-seok in his studio instead.

Lee Tae-hwan (Come Back, Ajusshi) plays Lee Jong-seok’s bodyguard and faithful right-hand man, and Jung Yoo-jin (Moorim School) will be his secretary. Neighborhood Laywer Jo Deul-ho’s hilarious loan shark Park Wan-sang has been cast as an assemblyman and Lee Jong-seok’s longtime enemy. In the other dimension, Kang Ki-young (Come Back, Ajusshi) will play Han Hyo-joo’s colleague and surgical resident, and Lee Shi-un (Remember—Son’s War) will be her father’s pupil.

The writer sat down with the actors one-on-one before the script read to go over each of their characters in-depth, and the PD said to the cast, “You are all the stars of your own lives. The characters each of you have undertaken are the stars of their worlds. Whether the role is big or small, please engage with the mindset that you are the star. Actors are the ones who put flesh and bone to characters and show them as living people. We’ve assembled strong actors with a lot of experience. I hope that you’ll create living characters.”

So do we all, PD-nim. So do we all.

W–Two Worlds will follow Lucky Romance beginning July 20.

Via Star News

117

Required fields are marked *

51 Ela

June 26, 2016 at 12:53 AM

W two worlds. Well when I think about plot Its OK.
The first teaser was OK as well but the second teaser was awful, specially the special effects that they had made.
About the writer he is not too bad I don't hate him but he has some big problems with the stories.
Specially in Arang and the magistrate his work was terrible, he just wanted to make a since fiction movie but it turned out like... I really cannot put any name on it, specially that it seemed he was missing in the story and couldn't finish it.
In Arang and the magistrate every time that you wanted to reach to any conclusion you realized that you were wrong and this made the drama less interesting.
The only thing that made me watch the drama and the only interesting part was the cast.
But anyway the thing that make me not hate him is She was pretty because he had a good job there.
but actually again the main interesting part was just the cast and how sophisticated that they were.
Actually W two worlds plot is not my taste as I read it but I just watch it because of Lee Jong Suk because of his previous amazing work.
But again He doesn't seem that would be a good couple with Han Hyo Ju, Actually they should have chosen another woman lead like Park Shin Hye or Ko Ara or Krystal or Yuna Lim, choosing Han Hyo Jo was really a mistake but anyway I will watch it and I expect them to show a good chemistery because They have done many good projects.