"Casting couch" and "female leads" must mean something different where you're from? It does NOT have good connotations…
Again, I’m not saying that it never happens but you make it seem like it’s the only way for women to get roles (just women since that’s all you reference) and you’re even calling it an opportunity like it’s a good thing and something to aspire to. That’s not whitewashing reality. Your super flippant attitude, shoulder shrugging and a mystifying acceptance that seems more like approval of an exploitative and misogynistic practice makes way less sense than my annoyance of it.
"Casting couch" and "female leads" must mean something different where you're from? It does NOT have good connotations…
The fact that you’re then knowingly using it that way to describe potential female leads for this drama is disgusting and misogynistic. So the ONLY way that women can secure lead acting roles is by having sex with the right person? Not that they’re talented actors but that they sleep with just the right person.
And you’re calling it an “opportunity” like it’s something for female actors to aspire to just to get the chance to work with LDW?? That’s BULLSHIT.
It’s not that I don’t know that these things happen but the casual way you reference it and only mention women here.
(Your profile says you’re female which makes what you’re saying even worse.) 🤯
An excerpt from my review: "I loved it. Like a lot. I haven't been this obsessed with trashy makjang goodness like this since Maid's Revenge (and this one gave me even more of it.) It was so unrealistic in parts, so over the top, so....well, makjang, that it defied reality at times, but it didn't matter because the actors almost fully sold it. Namely Fan Zhi Xin, the main male lead, he absolutely frickin' killed it here. 100% sold his character, 100% showed up in his character's skin, and I was here for every minute of it. He's a star in the making, and I will watch just about anything he's in going forward. "
This was nowhere near as bad as the comments are making it out to be. It must be for older audiences, like me, who have patience for slower and less flashy stories but still have something to say
I totally understand what the surgery is, but I was so confused why he chose to get it as an adult (and why it needed to happen right then in the story.) It just felt random and out of nowhere. :-)
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Your super flippant attitude, shoulder shrugging and a mystifying acceptance that seems more like approval of an exploitative and misogynistic practice makes way less sense than my annoyance of it.
And you’re calling it an “opportunity” like it’s something for female actors to aspire to just to get the chance to work with LDW??
That’s BULLSHIT.
It’s not that I don’t know that these things happen but the casual way you reference it and only mention women here.
(Your profile says you’re female which makes what you’re saying even worse.) 🤯
"I loved it. Like a lot. I haven't been this obsessed with trashy makjang goodness like this since Maid's Revenge (and this one gave me even more of it.) It was so unrealistic in parts, so over the top, so....well, makjang, that it defied reality at times, but it didn't matter because the actors almost fully sold it.
Namely Fan Zhi Xin, the main male lead, he absolutely frickin' killed it here. 100% sold his character, 100% showed up in his character's skin, and I was here for every minute of it.
He's a star in the making, and I will watch just about anything he's in going forward. "
You really seem like you’re about 12 years old