Cha Seung-won fights to clear Kim Soo-hyun’s name in One Ordinary Day
by tccolb
New stills have been released as we near the November premiere of One Ordinary Day. The stills feature the cast and crew at the drama’s first script reading.
Based on the BBC drama Criminal Justice, One Ordinary Day is about the fight for justice and survival. An ordinary college student finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and all the evidence is stacked against him. His only help comes from two unlikely sources: a third-rate lawyer, and the top dog at a prison.
Kim Soo-hyun (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay) takes on the role of college student Kim Hyun-soo. Having to face trial as a murder suspect, he’s plagued with regrets about what happened that fateful day. If only he hadn’t gotten into that car, gone into that house, and hadn’t ran away… What could have gone differently that night?
Cha Seung-won (Hwayugi) plays the part of the low-ranking lawyer, Shin Joong-han. As a third-rate attorney, he makes his living defending petty criminals. His policy is to never question what the truth really is.
Also offering to help Kim Soo-hyun is Kim Sung-kyu (Kingdom 2)’s character, Do Ji-tae. He holds the most power at the prison, and is at the top of the food chain.
Finally, Lee Seol (When the Devil Calls Your Name) plays the newly-minted lawyer Seo Soo-jin. Fresh out of school, she’s still learning the ropes and is passionate about helping others.
Written by Kwon Soon-kyu (Jackpot, Warrier Baek Dong-soo) and directed by PD Lee Myung-woo (Backstreet Rookie, Fiery Priest), One Ordinary Day will premiere this November on Korea’s new streaming service, Coupang Play.
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Tags: Cha Seung-won, Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Sung-kyu, Lee Seol, One Ordinary Day
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1 dramalover4ever
October 1, 2021 at 1:54 PM
I'm so glad to see Cha Seung-won again after such a long while. He paired brilliantly with Lee Seung-gi. I can't see how he would be anything but great with Kim Soo-hyun. I've also love this director. His quirky sense of humour appeals to me big time.
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bomibeans
October 1, 2021 at 2:14 PM
My initial though was, "Cha Seung-won as a low-ranking lawyer? Sign me up!" Lol. Seriously, he's such a charismatic actor and I adore the way he interprets his characters with such a genuine flair and relish and comedic nuance. I imagine even if one loves or hates his interpretation, they are always memorable, and among the sea of rather mannequin performances in dramas, that's a breath of fresh air.
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dramalover4ever
October 1, 2021 at 4:18 PM
Double this: "I adore the way he interprets his characters with such a genuine flair and relish and comedic nuance"
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2 Ayalynn
October 1, 2021 at 4:27 PM
I'll watch this for Kim Sung-kyu.
I'm happy that he has two dramas that are coming up this year.
He played Young-Shin in Kingdom and it was fantastic!
A Piece of Your Mind was disappointing (drama wise) but his performance definitely wasn't.
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3 Kafiyah Bello
October 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM
I always thought Cha Seung Won was taller. My love for KSH is endless though, so I will watch anything he is in.
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ladykrueger
October 2, 2021 at 12:10 AM
I'm pretty sure he's taller than KSH... He's around 190cm I think.
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Kafiyah Bello
October 2, 2021 at 6:04 AM
I thought so too, but the picture makes him look so small, maybe he is sitting.
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knewbie
October 3, 2021 at 12:05 AM
Haha yes my first reaction was "What? KSH is taller than CSW?!?!"
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ladykrueger
October 3, 2021 at 2:38 AM
Maybe he's doing Korean Manner Legs 😂😂😂
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Cindy
October 5, 2021 at 8:04 AM
Cha Seung Won is sitting while Kim Soo Hyun is standing.
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4 spazmo
October 1, 2021 at 7:39 PM
kim soo hyun is rather old to be playing a college student isn't he... you'd think they could cast someone age-appropriate. not that i'm complaining, i'm just saying...
there are a slew of young actors that are age-appropriate. at least they aren't making him wear a high school uniform.... i hate older actors in high school roles. so dumb.
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5 Eazal
October 2, 2021 at 2:05 AM
CSH and KSY. I have no other choice but to watch.
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6 ilovecoffee&rain
October 2, 2021 at 6:09 AM
OOOH. Criminal Justice has been remade in India with top-notch actors which made the show an awesome watch. I can't wait for its Korean remake. I love both Kim Soo-hyun and Cha Seung-won's acting. It will be cracking!
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7 knewbie
October 3, 2021 at 12:15 AM
Not a big fan of Kim Soo-hyun, and was expecting a more critically acclaimed young actor like Koo Kyo-hwan or Ryu Joon-yeol to play a role that had previously been taken by Ben Whishaw and Riz Ahmed. An interesting choice, nevertheless, and he might end up surprising us all. Cha Seung-won and Kim Sung-kyu, on the other hand, are perfect casting.
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Whut?
October 3, 2021 at 2:19 AM
Lol if anything, I think he’d be surprising very few. He’s a brilliant actor. Not sure what a “critically acclaimed actor” is - actors aren’t critically acclaimed - only performances are. And he’s had a lot of those. The guy just got nominated for Baeksangs this year. He isn’t some Hallyu star who got the looks but not the chops.
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knewbie
October 3, 2021 at 4:37 AM
I may be wrong about KSH, but I'm certain that if an actor can be 'good' they can also be 'critically acclaimed', i.e. have their skills and body of work praised by many critics.
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kettle
October 3, 2021 at 6:21 AM
Exactly what Kim Soo Hyun is. If anything he’s the perfect balance of popular and critically acclaimed. I mean the guy won a Baeksang Best Actor at age 24. In all his projects, whether successful or not, the critics always praise his acting. The reason why he gets offerred diverse roles. Like his role in this drama.
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knewbie
October 4, 2021 at 1:17 AM
You're Whut? and I claim my 5 pounds :P
Whut?
October 4, 2021 at 3:35 PM
@knewbie
Actually nope. It’s a completely different person. Feel free to ask an admin to check. They can easily do so using IP and various other ways. Technology is a lot more advanced than that kind of foolishness
It’s like you can’t accept that many think you’re wrong? Lol grow up.
Whut?
October 4, 2021 at 3:40 PM
@knewbie
Also, how silly to think I wouldn’t just use the same name to respond to you. LOL. When you yourself admitted you might be wrong about the main topic which is KSH’s acting. The reason I didn’t respond is because you got my point. End of. But now you go around accusing someone to be me 😂
knewbie
October 4, 2021 at 9:42 PM
@Whut? You are kettle and I claim my 5 pounds :P
kettle
October 5, 2021 at 4:53 AM
oh jesus christ! people still resort to "you are the same person" reply in this day and age? in a kdrama forum? that's just... sad.
well, no matter, no matter. you do you @knewbie. i hope you're happy with your 5 pounds :p
knewbie
October 5, 2021 at 5:21 AM
Woah Whut! calling the kettle back!
Ok ok that's enough obscure and unfunny 'jokes' from me...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/AICMFP
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pot-calling-the-kettle-black
Mandy
October 4, 2021 at 5:02 PM
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Mandy
October 4, 2021 at 5:06 PM
Whoops sorry deleted my response.
More critically acclaimed? Really? KSH quite easily has more critically acclaimed performances than RJY has. Does he have more than 1? KSH is generally more respected in the industry as well. This is coming from a big Jung-Hwan fan, thus RJY fan. He’s one of the best actors in his generation and someone who has both the industry acclaim to prove it, as well as versatile performances in several genres. I dunno why I’m defending him when he doesn’t need it but yea. Maybe your definition of a good actor is very different from others. But like someone else said, he’ll not be surprising too many.
Looking forward to this tho!
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knewbie
October 4, 2021 at 9:47 PM
Actually i'm glad people are defending him, cos it's nice to have a POV that is different from my own, which is limited to what I've seen of him and reviews I've read of his work. None of which seems terribly impressive, but then it's only a portion of what's really out there.
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Mandy
October 5, 2021 at 6:11 AM
It’s interesting. I’ve not ever seen bad reviews of KSH’s acting from neutrals. For any of his roles. The reviews are quite the opposite in fact. As someone above mentioned, he was nominated in the Baeksang Actor category just recently. And I believe other than for 1 role, he got nominated in Baeksang for every lead role he’s had? That’s usually how I define critically acclaimed.
But yea. Everyone has their own opinion and that’s cool. I was just surprised when you claimed he will be surprising us all. I think maybe very few will really be surprised with his performance unless he doesn’t act as per his usual standards.
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knewbie
October 5, 2021 at 9:53 PM
I didn't say he was a bad actor though. My own view is that he isn't as critically acclaimed as someone like Ryu Joon-yeol, who has had a very impressive run of film performances (A Taxi Driver, Heart Blackened, Money, Believer, The Battle etc) or Koo Kyo-hwan (a newbie with far less work to his name than KSH but much lauded for his performances in Jane and DP). To me, KSH is good but not great in The Thieves, Secretly Greatly, Your Love from Another Star and Producers. But one show I haven't watched at all is It's Ok to Not be Ok, which may change my view of KSH entirely.
knewbie
October 5, 2021 at 10:47 PM
My claim that he might surprise us all is also based on what I know about the story and the two actors who played the role in the UK and US versions. IMO, KSH is a decent actor, but he hasn't demonstrated as much range or skill as some other young Korean actors who I think are more comparable to Whishaw and Ahmed. Furthermore, the role involves behaviour, emotions, etc that I've never seen in KSH's performances. (Btw I have obviously not seen all his work, but AFAIK all the characters he's played so far are quite different from the one in Criminal Justice / The Night Of). Hence if KSH does excel in this particular role, it'd be surprising in the sense that it would show new facets of his talent.
Cindy
October 5, 2021 at 11:29 PM
@knewbie, as your user name suggests, you must a kdrama/film newbie. Kim Soo Hyun is the more acclaimed and lauded actor compared to Ryu Joon Yoel. RJY may have starred in a couple acclaimed projects but he was not the main actor in those projects. For projects where he is the main actor, they fare poorly.
Cindy
October 5, 2021 at 7:36 AM
Don’t know who the other guy is, but had to look up Ryu Joon Yoel to make sure he’s who I think he is. More critically acclaimed and young, lol.
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knewbie
October 6, 2021 at 1:56 AM
Sorry I can't reply to you post above so I'm putting my answer here. I was talking about acting, not box office or ratings. This is my personal opinion, based on my limited experience of KSH (e.g. I haven't seen any of his earlier dramas like Kimchi Cheese Smile or Jungle Fish): IMO KSH hasn't displayed the kind of range or skill that some other actors of his generation have. Of course people like Ryu Joon-yeol or Kim Nam-hee have not been anywhere near as successful as KSH when it comes to ratings or box office. And neither of them is a big star with lots of leading roles. But RJY has played scumbags, geeks, nice guys, country bumpkins, drug dealers, cops, etc, and has done so consistently well, whether he's lead or supporting. Kim Nam-hee hasn't even had a lead role, and he's two years older than KSH, but people have praised him for his completely different performances in Sweet Home, Mr Sunshine, On the Verge of Insanity, Mad for Each Other, etc.
In contrast, AFAIK KSH has mostly played people who are quite confident or have many positive characteristics or are cool/heroic. While he has been good in those lead roles and received many awards, and the films/dramas have been extremely successful, I feel (and I stress this is just my opinion) he hasn't really proved himself as an actor yet. Furthermore, the guy in One Ordinary Day is not only NOT supposed to be a particularly strong or nice guy, but he's also someone who loses a lot of control over his life in a very unpleasant way. This isn't something that I've seen KSH do before, whereas guys like RJY, Kim Nam-hee, Ahn Jae-hong, etc have more experience with less heroic characters.
I'm not saying KSH will do badly in the role. On the contrary, I think he is an interesting choice (see my original post right at the top), cos he does have qualities that may contribute something new to the role and perhaps he has been waiting for a role like that to show off what he can really do. And if that does happen, I would be surprised, and very pleasantly so.
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knewbie
October 6, 2021 at 5:15 AM
Also, can I add that Ryu Joon-yeol starred in Believer and Money, both of which did very well even though they are rather bleak films? Of course Kim Soo-hyun has starred in about half a dozen very successful dramas, compared to RJY's, er, zero (maybe Reply 1988, but I'd say it's Hye-ri who is the star of that show). However, KSH has surprisingly few hit films to his name. The Thieves did well, but he wasn't the lead actor, while Real was a bigger flop than anything RJY has done. This means that the only really successful film that KSH starred in is Secretly Greatly.
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Mandy
October 6, 2021 at 8:00 AM
You miss the fact that KSH has only had 3 movies to his name. Out of that, 2 were major blockbusters. And ALL his dramas - every single one of them - where he has been the lead - were HUGE. Ratings wise, popularity wise or acting wise. Love RJY but he’s not in the same league irrelevant on how many movies he’s done or how successful they were.
Also, you thinking KSH only played “cool/heroic” characters? Clearly you have hardly seen him in anything…Dream high? Producers? It’s okay? None of those were cool or heroic characters. You’re then left with My Love from the Star and MoonSun. In summary, he has fewer cool/heroic characters than more. Not quite sure what you’re trying to prove here with your arguments but I’m quite lost. In any case, this might be getting too long so I’ll just end my argument with: while it’s not surprising to most kdrama neutrals, glad he will surprise you if/when you watch it. Because if you’re a neutral, he indeed will. 🤷🏻♀️
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knewbie
October 7, 2021 at 12:41 AM
I didn't say he has only played cool or heroic characters. I said "In contrast, AFAIK KSH has mostly played people who are quite confident or have many positive characteristics or are cool/heroic."
Genuine question cos I haven't seen all his work: Has he ever played someone who is completely lost and weak and at the mercy of someone?
What I was trying to prove was that Cindy was wrong when she said "RJY may have starred in a couple acclaimed projects but he was not the main actor in those projects. For projects where he is the main actor, they fare poorly." I have never denied that KSH is a much bigger star than RJY. As I mentioned above, KSH is the star of at least half a dozen massively successful dramas, whereas the only big drama success for RJY is Reply 1988, which is either an ensemble piece or is mainly Hye-ri's show.
Mandy
October 7, 2021 at 7:16 AM
@knewbie
Genuine question cos I haven't seen all his work: Has he ever played someone who is completely lost and weak and at the mercy of someone?
Completely lost and weak? Yup. His last drama was exactly that character. Lost, weak, depressed, going through the motions of life. Other than that, Giant.
knewbie
October 8, 2021 at 5:18 AM
@mandy But I don't think Gang-tae was completely lost and weak. He protected his brother and cared for the people at the hospitals where he worked, and his strength and goodness presumably triumphed in the end. I haven't seen Giant, but wasn't the character capable enough to become a KCIA agent and seek revenge?
In contrast, the character in Criminal Justice / The Night Of is a very unexceptional young man who is thrown into the chaos and danger of the criminal justice system. He doesn't have the luxury of going through the motions of life, cos almost every such motion is circumscribed both officially and - even worse - by unwritten laws laid down by the more dangerous and powerful prison inmates. He is constantly under threat. And because he's just a regular guy, he doesn't have the moral or mental strength to defy the system or remain unsullied by it. Instead, he loses a bit more of himself with every step he takes.
Mandy
October 11, 2021 at 6:12 AM
@knewbie
Oh? Frankly, I’m over this conversation because you claimed to have not watched it’s okay at all. So really, either that’s a lie, or what you’ve replied to me just recently is a lie. Either way, this is moot because you’re clearly not willing to concede that you’re… wrong.
I’m out.
knewbie
October 13, 2021 at 1:48 AM
@mandy But I haven't seen It's OK. I got those details from Wikipedia. And I don't know how the show ends except that it ends well, which was why I said PRESUMABLY his goodness / strength triumphs. My point is that Gang-tae seems to go through what many main characters go through - they are good people in a bad place who manage to get to a better place via their own positive efforts plus other circumstances. Which is very different from what happens to the The Night Of / Criminal Justice character.
Also: why is it wrong for me to not have expected KSH to be cast in this show, or to be surprised if he does bring something new and exciting to the role? I'd expected someone else to be cast, and IMO there are other actors who are better suited to the role but I certainly don't expect KSH to be anything other than at least good at it. And I certainly don't think you or Whut? or kettle are wrong to expect him to be fantastic.
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knewbie
October 6, 2021 at 5:17 AM
Btw KSH is only two years younger than RJY.
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CS
October 6, 2021 at 8:54 AM
I'm with you, @knewbie, in that I don't think of KSH when I think of powerful actors. I loved him in Okay and Secretly Greatly, but I don't think he's played a "gritty" role well. Real didn't quite do it. I think I would have gone with someone that can pull off that type of role. Someone like Ryu Joon-yeol seems like the perfect choice. I have watched a lot of these British shows and they aren't slick or beautiful, they have a different sort of feel. I mean, not everyone likes the same actors or the same types of roles/stories, so it seems fair that you (and I) might have a different opinion on who is best for the role. I'll hope for the best, though, because I want to see this show and want it to be really good.
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knewbie
October 7, 2021 at 12:45 AM
That kind of expresses what I was trying to say, but much more pithily haha. KSH isn't the first person that springs to mind for this role, but because he is quite a different kind of actor from Whishaw and Ahmed, he might just bring something new and exciting to the role. Fingers crossed!
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Mimoi
October 24, 2021 at 7:57 AM
Yea agree. Ryu Jun-Yeol could fit the role perfectly. I could also think of Lee Je Hoon and Jung Hae In.
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knewbie
October 25, 2021 at 1:03 AM
I can see Jung Hae-in as that character, cos I think he has shown that he can do ordinary and flawed. Lee Je-hoon, however, seems to me to be weirdly more convincing in loud comedy roles (e.g. the funny parts in Move to Heaven and Taxi Driver) than in angsty, sensitive roles (e.g. the angsty parts in Move to Heaven and Taxi Driver, and Signal too). I doubt many people will agree with me on this, but I think he has the potential to become an exceptionally brilliant comic actor, especially in dark comedies.
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miss h
October 25, 2021 at 8:10 AM
I can see him being a good comic actor. Since Signal, I've thought Lee Je-hoon has a tendency to overact, which works in loud comedy roles.
8 KSKalways
October 3, 2021 at 12:25 AM
The plot sounded very familiar... 🤔🤔🤔... and I now know why🤓. I recently watched A brilliant HBO mini-series called "The Night of" with Riz Ahmed, John Turturro and Michael K Williams (RIP). Turns out, it is also based on the same BBC series "Criminal Justice"!
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9 Mandy
October 4, 2021 at 3:54 PM
Very excited for this! But I’m a little bummed that it’s not on Netflix? Not sure how i-fans can watch it - compang is only Korean I think?
Anyway. Exciting!! This is a powerhouse cast. Really looking forward to their interpretation. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that the writer doesn’t mess it up. The track record isn’t very assuring on that end.
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Cindy
October 5, 2021 at 8:21 AM
It will be on Amazon Prime in Japan and Vui in 17 other countries, more countries will be added but the licensing is not yet confirmed. The good news is with just 18 countries so far, Coupang Play has already recouped the entire 20 billion won production cost through licensing fees. So yeah, other than his acting talent, there’s a reason KSH was casted in Coupang Play’s first produced drama.
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10 redfox
October 5, 2021 at 12:34 PM
I think in that picture Cha Seung Won looks like a bearded woman.
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FlyingTool
October 5, 2021 at 1:07 PM
He’ll always be Dokko Jin. Actually because it’s the only one of his roles I’ve seen.
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redfox
October 10, 2021 at 2:18 AM
I saw the movie with maps, really liked it. I also tried to watch the one where his in drag but that was LITERALLY too dark. like I dont know what the cameraman was even thinking. where was the lighting.
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knewbie
October 6, 2021 at 2:01 AM
It's the unfortunate centre parting in his hair.
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