Kdrama Actors Are Surprisingly Romantic
Despite knowing the realities of filming love scenes and voicing someone else's scripted love lines, some kdrama actors remain hopeless romantics.
When Lee Jong Suk was recently interviewed for a Star Christmas pictorial, he spoke about finding love. He still has not met anyone that lives up to his romantic ideals. But despite the fact that he has acted in a few kdramas, he has not become jaded about the possibility of finding true love. And when he falls in love, he wants it to be dramatic.
"Since I love dramas, I want to have the fantasy love of dramas come true in my own life," said the actor, who played Lee Bo Young's younger love interest in "I Hear Your Voice."
He was a fan of the melodrama "Secrets," which starred Ji Sung, Bae Soo Bin, Hwang Jung Eum and Lee Da Hee, his "I Hear Your Voice" co-star.
"In 'Secrets,' the line 'I love you more than myself' was really sad," said Lee Jong Suk. "But although it is sad, I want to date someone who I love enough to die for."
Actor Joo Won also expressed his longing for a dramatic love. He wanted to play the role of Sam in the musical version of the film "Ghost" because he fell in love with the film when he was in college.
"I watched the film belatedly when I was a college student, and bought the DVD right away," he said. "I watched it probably more than 20 times. I am so melodramatic. I easily empathize. I deeply related to the message of the movie. It was about a love that goes on even after one dies. Is it possible to fall in love so deeply like that?"
When asked if he would wait for 15 years for a lost love as his character did in the drama "Missing You," Park Yoochun said that he was good at waiting. But although he would trust the woman he loves and never forsake his principles, 15 years is a long time.
"Fifteen years of waiting made the story very beautiful, but in reality it is not that easy to wait to so long. It's too long. I can't even imagine it," said Park Yoochun.
Playing the romantic lead in a drama is also no guarantee that you will be good at it in real life.
Song Seung Hoon, the star of "When A Man Loves," says his romantic leading roles have not prepared him well for real-life romance.
"I still don't know what women think," he said. "I am often told that I'm bad at figuring out what women want when I am in a relationship. Women usually hope the men know how they feel without them having to say anything directly. And they say, 'Why don't you even know that?' but I just don't. People think I'd be very good with women but I'm not like that at all."
