NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kinda hoped she would first do a supporting role first. I mean if she does bad she will get so much hate and she's such a young sweet girl. Anyways since she auditioned and beat other 300 actresses she must have some talent atleast.

Hope this drama has a more rom com feel to it and doesn't lean towards the melo side. It would be fun to see LHW play someone awkward and cute in love :D

Hope Joy does well and can do a drama in the future with Sungjae :) I mean Solim and GongLee couples from WGM also are doing the same so hopefully Sungjoy some day too ;)
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Man, maybe it's still too soon after his scandal, but I wasn't hoping in my heart of hearts that it would be Lee Min-ki... and hey, IU got some flak for Scarlet Heart, but I honestly think she could have done really well in a role like this. Sort of the young, bright ingenue type... She's a great singer anyway... le sigh...

Not just the company but the idol too is very greedy for taking a lead role as her first. I've seen a short stint of her acting (a clip where she and someone else acts out Moon Embracing the Sun) and....well I hope she's improved. People like Han Ga In and Suzy get dragged for their lack of acting even with their high presence in the industry and visuals. As an SM idol for whom company power gave her this chance, if she's not good she'll be torn apart and I will have no sympathy for her. Same with Kai only in that case I know for sure he's terrible.

I'm suspecting this has to do with the partnership between SM and Key East where they will partner to create content and borrow each other's actors/idols.

I know SM has wanted to have tons more power in the drama world (like they have in the Kpop world) and it burns them that they have never been able to do so. Out of all the idols they throw acting roles too, Yoona is the only one semi-taken seriously but even then I'm not 100% sure if she really is held in high regard. No one cares about Siwon anymore and D.O has only just started to come up but has a real shot. I know SM has been trying to expand their brand name and actors are considered on a higher wrung than idols, but all of SM's attempts to make their brand and idols feel more public friendly will keep falling on their faces if they're unable to just take things slow.

Nobody said idols shouldn't act but start them off on the appropriate path. EXO's Kai and Red Velvet's Joy do not need a leading role right away, what a joke.

joy has never acted before....and is making her acting debut in a lead role? what? lol

and kai was getting so much hate for getting a lead role even though he's "kinda" acted before lol

honestly for me, the idol-actor stand out has gotta be D.O and lee sung kyung (i mean her insane psycho bitch scenes in cheese in the trap?? not everyone can pull that off..)

Holy sh*t I loved the Japanese movie of this. It has mainstream charm that could get a lot of people hooked.

Joy is perfect for this role. She has a girl next door, upbeat and determined persona that fits Riko, and I watched her on A Hyung I Know where they improvised a whole story, she steals the show. She also has a very special voice judging from her song " The Korean article said she was picked out of 300 females, so I don't know for sure but I have great feeling she will do well.

As for the male lead role of Aki I genuinely don't see Lee Hyun-woo has the same masculine mysteriousness as Takeru Satoh :/ Their images are so different. LHW is a great actor but his baby face has stuck him in teen genre for a lot of his projects since it fits him, but lets see. I'm actually excited. tvN delivers.

Kim Seul Gi great actress but never has a chance.

LHW is not exactly who I had in mind for this role but I'm not upset about his casting at all. Joy's casting, on the other hand, confuses me to no end because not only is she physically the opposite of what Riko is supposed to look (Joy is tallish, rather full figured, obviously pretty and girlish while Riko is short, super petite, with no curves to speak of, and described as not all that pretty and a tomboy), but she also has the stereotypical high pitch singing voice that most female idols are trained to have, again, completely opposite of what Riko is supposed to sound. I guess not looking exactly like a character is no deal breaker (definitely not for me!) but in this instance I think at least how she is perceived is important. OF COURSE the most off thing is gonna be her voice tho, with her being an idol there's no way they're using someone else to sing her parts and it will leave the audience (me) confused as to how exactly is her voice all that different from the other 10000 idols' voices out there (it ain't). I think other idols fitted the role better, IU is quite an obvious choice but she could have pulled it off, and while Eunji doesn't exactly have Riko's looks she has the deeper-than-normal-idol-singing-voice going for her, but both take only premium works now I guess. They could have also just hired a talented up and coming actress and have someone like Lee Hi dub her singing or something.

i always see Lee Hyun Woo one of my favourite. he has this talent vibe all over. something similar with Kamiki Ryunosuke. but as of last year, one had a bad slump and another is a sort after talent.
i really want this to be great for him. hopefully Joy will deliver!

Another day and another rookie acting-idol handed a lead role. And no I don't believe the SM media play about passing an audition story.

The industry really sucks for the talented young actors and actresses out there who don't have Kpop company or idol fanbase pushing them. Sad.

I've just realised hyunwoo look like park bogum and joy look like kim yoojung ?

When will real life besties Lee Hyun Woo and IU ever act together in a drama?

....Oh, god. Initially I was really happy hearing abt an actor I really, really like getting paired up with Joy, whom I also really like (dunno how she is already leading a role, tho). But it's another age gap relationship with people at different stages in life? A high-school student and if I'm not mistaken, a sound producer who must be in the working world? This is so dispiriting.

Also I love Hyun Woo, but those of you saying all his main co-stars of Moorim were bad actors and he was the sole jewel, are baffling to me. I watched most of the show and Jung Eugene and the woman playing his love interest were actually better than him at acting, even if it was marginal.

It would've been good if SM had Joy play some smaller roles first... but since she got the role I really hope she does well. Please let this be a good drama!

coming back here just to comment that she's horrible. There's something about her acting that i dont like.... even the production, the whole drama. I think they're focusing more on the relationship the typical kdrama rather than the music. Anyway, off to other kdrama.