When Drama Leads Have A Huge Age Difference

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Kim So Hyun is the latest actress to star in a drama that features a huge age difference between the leads. The 15-year-old recently discussed what it was like to work with her co-star Chun Jung Myung, who will soon be 34. She was asked what it was like to work with her much-older co-star in "Reset."

They got along well, she said at a press conference for the drama, and it was not at all awkward.

"I was surprised to find he was 19 years older," she said. "I do not feel that at all. I look mature for my age and Chun Jung Myung has a baby face. I don't think people will sense an age gap when they view us."

In "Reset," Kim So Hyun plays two roles. One of them is Chun Jung Myung's first love, but he loved her when he was 19. Choi Soo Han will play the younger version of his character Cha Woo Jin when he was in love with her. That girl was murdered. Kim So Hyun also plays Jo Eun Bi, a girl who looks just like his first love and she will help him resolve the case of her unsolved murder.

So technically, it is not cradle robbing or really an age-gap-romance. But in the last two years, there have been a few romances with huge age gaps. Lee Bo Young, a public prosecutor fell for a high school student played by Lee Jong Suk in "I Hear Your Voice." The noona romance has been around for years but in the last year the gap has grown. Kim Hee Ae romanced Yoo Ah In in "Secret Love Affair" and their characters had a 20-year age difference. In "Witch's Romance," Uhm Jung Hwa, a 39-year-old news reporter fell for a 25-year-old played by Park Seo Joon.

And then there was Yoona and Lee Bum Soo in the recent drama "The Prime Minister and I." He played a 42-year-old prime minister and she played a 28-year-old reporter, even though in real life he is 44 and she is 24. The two characters became romantically involved and had plenty of chemistry despite the age difference.

Despite the controversy an age difference can generate in a romance or a drama, in the end it's talent that is most important in making a drama a success.

Chun Jung Myung said there was not an awkward or uncomfortable moment when the two filmed together and he praised his young co-star's ability and enthusiasm.

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