I hope I’m reading these articles wrong because Nana as Kalinda? Um… no.

Not that I don’t love Nana. I do. She’s gorgeous and I really enjoyed getting to know her on Roommate.

But. She’s an idol who doesn’t have much acting experience. Who will apparently be playing my favorite role in this adaptation of The Good Wife. (If, again, I’m reading it correctly, because some articles are more vague about her being an assistant while others state she’ll be an investigator, so even though I’m waiting for someone more fluent than I to get to the bottom of the matter, it looks like netizens are just as confused – and disappointed – as I am about the casting news.)

That also sucker-punches the faint hope (hey, it’s cable! it could happen!) of the mere suggestion that they’d try to keep Kalinda’s character bisexual, because I’m pretty sure no agency will agree to that for one of their idols.

I just… gah. Kalinda is such an important character who has to be played with enough nuance that you can believe all the roles she puts on to get info from people, but also how well she shuts down to keep people out, and yet there’s a deeper emotional undercurrent – rage mixed with sadness and a stubbornness not to admit how lonely she is.

Can an idol, especially one with very limited acting experience, begin to do that?

This is one of those times that I want my translation attempts to be utterly and completely wrong. Although seeing those netizen comments… sigh…