So Hotel del Luna ep 1&2: I like the plot so far. IU is acting well, even though there a a few obvious gaps in her skill. Yeo Jin-gu otoh, is NOT acting well at all. Nope nope nope.

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    He is soooooo young. Woefully miscasted.

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      He is young and looks young. I only watched ep 1, and I too think he is miscasted for the character description.

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        Kwak Dong Yeon and Lee Jae Wook the most recent puppy find are around YJG’s age.

        I haven’t watched Hotel Del Luna but in My Absolute Boyfriend, it’s more like character was childlike. For Hotel, they shouldn’t have written a character with impressive work experience. Just have him as a genius fresh grad from Harvard

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          It is even more than that for me. I find that his timing is off. In the scenes where he’s supposed to look outraged or his fright is supposed to be funny….he just can’t quite nail them. Also, his face is distracting (not in a good way). It seems to have been painted/plastered on to his skull. He looks very plastic.

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            Have you watch him in other dramas? He’s a popular child actor whose acting has been recognized. I say this not as his fan because I have been quite negative about him in this recent drama. It’s just that reading your comments and my experience made me wonder if it’s a situation where an actor regress or is it more of him trying to adjust to adult character roles.

            I don’t see the problem with his face though. Someone said that he looks like he had plastic surgery. I wonder why would he even need it but then plastic surgery is never done solely on need basis. Still, I don’t think he did.

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            I’ve heard he was phenomenonal in THE CROWNED CLOWN, and my friend thinks he did well in ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND too, but she agrees he not doing well at all (so far) in HOTEL DEL LUNA. we are not sure if it’s that he’s miscast or that he doesn’t have the chops yet to do a show like this (I’ve heard complaints of him in romantic dramas or if it’s that he’s fatigued from so many back-to-back dramas. Either way, we both agree that so far, IU is doing a good job of carrying the drama, and he’s not only NOT pulling his weight, he’s actually reducing the quality of the thing.

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          As someone who is not YJG’s fan (I just don’t like his physical appearance), I feel this comparison is not fair! He has been casted in three different/ difficult lead roles in the last year! He has been praised for his role in Crowned Clown (I have not watched it, but read lot’s of good review in Korean websites)… I dropped MAB at 4th episode, mainly because the characters have been written so awfully unlikable! I don’t think other actors could have done better when a character has written too dumb and flat! Writing and directing play very important roles in actors’ performance! Hotel Del Luna, is all about IU so far, YJG has nothing to do other than being frightened by ghosts!! It’s too early to judge his acting.
          As for other actors you mentioned: Kwak Dong Yeon was overacting so much in My Strange Hero (the only complicated role he got so far), though he was likable in Gangnam Beauty. Lee Jae Wook is a rookie and his role in WWW is the simplest role anyone can get! I agree that he’s a likable puppy in WWW, but we still cannot judge is acting!
          Anyway I think people are confusing characters (likable/ unlikable characters) with acting skills…

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            I wasn’t comparing him to anything or calling him a bad actor in general, since I haven’t seen him in other things enough to judge. What he’s not a good actor in, though, is his current shows. His being a good actor in other shows doesn’t have anything to do with this one where he’s being terrible.

            The character he is currently playing is not unlikable. It is Yeo Jin-gu’s portrayal that is poor. He has been praised for his roles. But being a good actor in those roles does not mean he is a good actor in this role, which so far he is most certainly not being.

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            @ladyjaye I still think he’s character is unlikable so far (i.e. with no emotional depth)! I never felt his performance was terrible in this two episodes: he looked frightened and very confused in most of the scenes (like someone who’s having an unbelievable nightmare), I think it’s how this character been written… I just watched this video to check on his acting one more time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTghIlXBJ2o&feature=youtu.be

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