Health trainer and fitness model Ray Yang will be making her acting debut in a guest role on The Good Wife. More details will likely not be forthcoming since the production team is keeping mum to avoid spoilers, so let your best guess run wild and free.
Tag: casting news
Ooooo, have we finally found our Jackie?
News is sparse, but at the moment it does seem Park Jung Soo has been confirmed for The Good Wife, and I can only assume that she’ll be playing Yoo Ji Tae’s mother (aka Jackie Florrick). I personally haven’t watched her other dramas, although she was most recently seen in Marriage Contract, so fans of that drama can tell me if they think she’ll make a good Jackie or not.
As I mentioned previously, The Good Wife had their first table read a few days ago, and here are pics to prove it. Lookit those faces! I’m excited about all of them except for maybe Nana (bless her gorgeous bone structure) since it seems confirmed that she’ll be taking on the Kalinda role. Which can only mean one thing – brace yourselves, fans of the original, for a reimagining of the role, since a sassy, fierce, bisexual investigator is probably not what the beautiful idol (with limited acting experience) will be portraying.
Also, some casting news! (I warned you there would be more although I’m still impatient to learn what grand lady of Dramaland will be cast as Jackie – whomever isn’t in Dear My Friends, I guess?)
Rookie-to-the-small-screen Chae Dong Hyeon has been cast as… something. I dunno. The article says he’ll play an important part, but I don’t have anything giving me connecting hints to the original show. A client, perhaps? This will be his drama debut, although he’s been busy in live theater up until now.
I’m also curious to know if the drama will just adapt the first season or add in storylines from all seven (or maybe I just want to know if we’ll get our very own Alan Cumming), but I suppose I’ll have to wait until July to find out.
More The Good Wife casting news in the past couple of days:
Kim Tae Woo will be joining as a deputy prosecutor. (I had many news pics to choose from, btw. You’re welcome.) I’m thinking maybe the Glenn Childs’ role, just based on the description that he’ll go head-to-head with Yoo Ji Tae’s character (who’s playing the Peter Florrick role).
Tae In Ho has been cast as a criminal defense attorney. I’ve only really found one article about it, and it seems like he’ll be Yoo Ji Tae’s defense attorney (but don’t hold me to that).
Finally, Sung Yoo Bin will be playing Jeon Do Yeon and Yoo Ji Tae’s son (aka Zach Florrick). No word on if they’ll also cast for Grace Florrick or keep this version a one-child family.
The big question, though, is who will be playing Jackie? Dramaland has no end of regal, elitist, nose-in-your-business mother-in-laws, so I’m curious to see who will get the part (because how could they resist passing it up when it’s such a drama staple?).
There may be another flurry of casting news in the coming weeks, since the team had their first table read yesterday and so filming will likely begin soon. Which is a good thing, because the drama is set to premiere on tvN July 8th, following Dear My Friends.
More The Good Wife casting news!
Yoon Kye Sung has been officially confirmed for the Will Gardner role. He’d been rumored to be considering it favorably almost since the beginning, but now it’s official. I’m pleased, since I think he’ll suit that role well (or “Will,” heh).
Also, Lee Won Geun has been confirmed for Lawyer Logan the Cary Agos role. I’ve apparently seen him in a few small roles, but nothing memorable since his leading roles haven’t been in dramas I’ve watched. Which means I don’t really have an opinion on this casting, except that Lawyer Logan Cary is a young cocky first-year so tbh any up-and-coming actor would probably do.
With the exception of Nana (who I will accept if her role isn’t actually Kalinda), all the casting has been excellent, and I’m excited to see how tvN tackles this adaptation.
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…
Kim Seo Hyung has been confirmed for The Good Wife, She’ll be playing the Diane Lockhart role and I AM SO EXCITE.
My favorite roles of hers have been Secretary (turned villain) Mo Ga Bi from History of a Salaryman and the Empress Dowager from Empress Ki, so I’m confident that this role will be ideal for her. So much so, in fact, that I’m suddenly unable to think of anyone else I’d want to play the tough-but-fair law firm partner.
Casting as been spot-on so far, and I’m eager to hear who they’ll cast for the other roles (especially for my darling Kalinda).
More ladies of Monster! Kim Hye Eun has signed on to play Hwang Ji Soo, the daughter and political advisor of Lee Deok Hwa’s character.
As much as I was frustrated and disappointed by D-Day, I think she did a wonderful job portraying the struggles of Chief Kang – both as the chief of the ER department during a national disaster, and a mother worried for her son – so I’m looking forward to see what she’ll bring to this drama.
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