Hfft.... My Imagination is not big enough for Joo Won...
But once you get to see him
up close(as some of his former co-stars will attest)or he comes on screen he
will draw you in with his acting. Actually, you won't see him acting, you won't
see Joo Won either. You will see the character he is playing because he always
bring the character to life.
When I first saw him in Baker King, I really couldn't stand Ma Jun, the
antagonist he played. He made Tak Gu's life so miserable, yet because Joo Won
was superb in bringing out Ma Jun's vulnerabilities and twisted but sad man
that he was, it was difficult to hate Ma Jun to the core. In the end, he won me
over. To this day, there are viewers who dislike Joo Won because of the
character Ma Jun but I would say for a new actor who started out by playing a
role of an antagonist, watched by 50% of Korean viewers no less, he has done
very well indeed.
When Joo Won was acting in Bridal Mask or Gaksital, viewers couldn't wrap their
heads over how in 2D1N he was in reality a soft spoken young man full of aegyo
and afraid to swat even a fly, could be so darn convincing as Lee Kangto, the
vigilante who was a badass Japanese lackey policeman in the day and a heroic
masked fighter in the night. And just when they start having an image of him as
a suave hero, the image got shattered when Joo Won played an autistic savant in
Good Doctor.
Joo Won is never the same in his roles. So it might be difficult to imagine how
he can play Chiaki (Cantabile Romance). As his fan, I am confident he can pull this off just as he
has been doing in his roles so far.
Joo Won looking sharply, I feel vibes of Chiaki >.<
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