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Despite his age, he IS suitable for the role! As a fan of the actor Johan Ulveson (who plays the father in the sweish original) for some years now, and fan of Joo Jae Myung since Vincenzo I can confidently say that their vibes and acting styles are similar.

And speaking of NOT SUITABLE for the role, if you wtach the swedish original, the role Joo Jae Myung really isn't suited for is the love interest character for Im Soo Jung. The character is very vibrant and playful, does that sound suitable to this actor?!? lol

I won't be surprised if they even cast someone slightly younger than Im Soo Jung for the role lol like Jang Keun Suk would suit the role/character really well. If similar age, Kim Nam Gil would be a perfect as the mischevious yet slightly brooding love interest, cause he really has that similar duality vibes like the character.

Im Soo Jung looks a decade younger than her actual age, and he already convincibly played a father figure/mentor to Kim Nam Gil (who is in his 40s too) in Song of the Bandits, so I'm not worried. All they have to do is give him the more rugged look with make up like in SoTB and he'll deliver again.

More importantly he gives very similar vibes to Johan Ulveson (actor who plays the father in the swedish original), and doesn't even suit the love interest role for IMJ's character, so this casting is so right actually!

btw I can see Kim Jae Kyung in your profile pic, she'd suit the love interest role of the 18 year old son of the family here. 🤔 I could really see her or Kim Tae Ri in the role.
Maybe Lee Jae Wook as the 18 year old son role. 🤔
Unless of course they want to cast younger actors there.

Just speculating while waiting for full cast announcement!

The answer is LOVE. She has everything but not a relationship at age 38, money, close-knit family, career, a house, success.... but not love, until her love interest enters the series that is. 😍. (I watched the swedish original just now), I think that's what this decsription meant to say. 😂

Wait there's an Australian version to?!?; Omg! What's its name and what streaming service is it on?!?

Also watched it. Who would you cast as Peter, Im Soo Jung's love interest character?

Kim Nam Gil instantly came to my mind. Suitable to play the micheviois but also kind of mysterious/slightly intense vibes. I can just imagine him playfully approcahi g Im Soo Jung in the candy shop lol
He seems made for this role omg!


Or at least if not him then
Or
https://kisskh.at/people/188-yoon-sang-hyun

or
https://kisskh.at/people/201-jang-geun-suk



Right?!?

I made a long list of actors I'd lile to see act with Im Soo Jung, but now that I've watched the Swedish original, only Namgil of that list gave the right vibes and suitable as Peter.

I hope the casting department realizes this, I mean they already did a bang job in casting Joo Jae Myung in Johan Ulveson/the father role! Those two have the same vibes right?!

I watched the swedish original.

Piecing things together...
"Yoo Jae Myung will play the role of Seo Jin Ho, a man who is unhappy after his wife died due to an unexpected accident. "

That is literary the FATHER role in the series.

It might sound odd, but the casting director did a really FANTASTIC job here 👍👍, Joo Jae Myung really does give extremely similar vibes to the actor in the swedish version like WOW, (they even have similar acting style), despite his younger age lol, so I don't blame them for this casting. It would be wrong to cast him as love interest role for Im Soo Jung when he's so simialar to the father role lol.

....He's done it before even, just recently played a mentor/father figure to Kim Nam Gil in Song of the Bandits, despite being just a few years older lol. He can do it again easily.

Speaking of Kim Nam Gil, he'd actually make. agreat korean Peter (the love interest for Im Soo Jing's character)! The right vibes are there, beside his great acting. Peter is a playful michevious character who also has bit of mysterious aura too, I don't think there's a more suitable actor in korea who can play that!

Looking forward to the full cast acvouncement!

Watched the original swedish version.

Korean actors who give simialr vibes/suitable as the love interest character for Im Soo Jung's character imo:

https://kisskh.at/people/261-kim-nam-gil
https://kisskh.at/people/188-yoon-sang-hyun
https://kisskh.at/people/201-jang-geun-suk
https://kisskh.at/people/26803-hwang-hee


Right? 🤔
Anyway can they hurry up & announce the full cast!

The tone of the original is quite melo and slice of life, and RELIES ALOT ON GREAT ACTING. They cannot cast just anybody/ a pretty face, but all 6 actors of the 3 pairings must be able to act very well and naturally.

Im Soo Jung's character's love interest will definitely be a hard role, the actor must be able to both give a very deep intense, vulnerable and mysterious aura but also be very playful. I don't think most k actors can pull of the role fully to be honest, they either don't have the right vibe suited or the acting skill.

Kim Nam Gil, Jang Keun Suk or Hwang Hee would be a PERFECT 10/10 fit for the role, with both the right vibe & skill (Yoon sang Hyun maybe too old?), and all 3 look good next to Im Soo Jung too. 😍

Ignore the last 2 mind and the ending was perfect actually.😅 Everything after was unnecessary and cheap.

Felt like a cheap gimmick to just make a dramatic ending just because. 🤦🏻‍♀️😓

I don't accept at all that the last 2 min happened. Show ended just before.

Just finished this show for the 1st time. 😰😭
....There was no shooting and they ended up happily together & he proposed. I'm going with that.
The last 2 min didn't feel real anyway, it was filmed in such a surreal mood anyway. It was ML's fearfantasy/dream & then he woke up to a happier reality. I mean they did point out him having nightmares before thanks to mission traumas😂

...I'm grateful they at least gave us happy couple scenes & almost proposal scene, makes it easy to just take it as ending & ignore the rest. 😂👍

In my ending version those last minutes simply never happened.

It ended perfectly just before, so I'm sticking with that as the real better ending. 😂👍

***** the ending.

It was perfect until the last 2 or so minutes.😓

Ending fixed by pretending those last minutes didn't happen. There.
NEVER HAPPENED.

You give an 8 to things you consider average!? That's quite a generously high rating!

Glad we're getting more female-only dramas, tired of all those male only dramas, hardly seems fair 😓

Stop accusing people of virtue signaling. It shows you lack respect for other people and don't value morality. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Eh this isn't always true. If it were Gong Yoo would be among the celebritiies constantly getting backlash for not being so active on social media.😅 I've seen some be inactive for months at a time. One actress was absent from social media and promotional events for 2 years...

But here's a clip of full cast of A Man of Reason greeting fans, including with KNG and Lee Elijah.

if you haven't seen this, thought I share, thought you'll like it😁:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BboT4WKFY-Y

Yeah she would be one of the good actresses to pair with him indeed. Still remember her epic performance in The Last Empress, kind of just stole the show as best woman on the show from Jang Nara there. 😅

And it almost nearly happened with them both being in the same movie, but Elijah got paired with JWS not KNG 😅

All I know that after all those heartbreak KNG dramas we the fans deserve a healing romcom with happy ending finally for him LMAO 💀😅😅

Hope for a good FL in it too 🤞🤞

I don't think it wiil be full on comedy, more likely to be a dramedy and especially 2nd half probably more serious once stakes are higher & more developed plot....