IU and Jang Geun Suk’s New Drama ‘Pretty Boy’ Holds Press Conference

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video teaser of 'Beautiful Man / Pretty Man' which played at press con.

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Not Just A Pretty Face: Jang Geun Suk Wants To Project A New Image

a pretty man is a little predictable. He says he does not want to be bound to a specific character type. And yet he has played a pretty man before, in "You're Beautiful," "Mary Stayed Out All Night," and "Love Rain." What's different about his "Pretty Man" character?
 "Many people the character matches me perfectly, and I think so too," said Jang Geun Suk. "But, since I have to put on ten different characters meeting ten different women, the acting isn't exactly easy. I'm not afraid of failure. But I'm not obsessed with the thought that I have to make the drama succeed, either. If I was, I'd stay holed up in my house all the time."
In the past he has said that he wants to try playing a darker, character perhaps a vampire or a murderer, but when he read the comic book that the drama is based on, it seemed like a challenge and he thought the role would be fun. He also wanted to appeal to his Korean fan base.
"As I've become more popular around Asia, it's gotten harder to choose pieces," said Jang. "While just doing concerts and performances in other countries, I thought I might be forgotten in Korea, so I decided on 'Pretty Man.'"
He still wants to play different characters and confirm his position as a genuine actor.
"I thought that through this drama, I could turn my cons into my pros. The Jang Geun Suk that people know in Japan and China is outspoken and outgoing, but my image in Korea seems to be seen as sometimes over-the-top."
He saw the role of Dokgo Mate as a way for his Korean fans to see him as outspoken and outgoing.
 "Through 'Pretty Man,' I want to start over as a genuine actor," he said.

source: kdramastars

Posters for Pretty Man’s pretty cast

Pretty Man is getting ready to premiere this week, and has released posters and more stills. The 16-episode romantic comedy stars Jang Geun-seok (Love Rain) as the prettiest man who ever was, and IU (You’re the Best, Lee Soon-shin) as the Plain Jane who loves him from afar.


Jang Geun-seok plays a man who discovered as early as kindergarten that he was prettier than most and could get special treatment because of it. During his school years he never once had to bring a lunch to school, and now only has to glance at designer things in stores before women throw presents his way. Uh… we’re supposed to like him, right?

Han Chae-young (Ad Genius Lee Tae-baek) is the rich, glamorous, successful woman he wants, but for reasons unknown, she makes a game of “training” him and tells him to conquer ten of the most eligible bachelorettes in the city first. I’m trying to wrap my head around the thinking behind that, but in any case she seems like she wants to possess him like a toy. Still don’t know how the other women figure into it, but I think I’ll just let the drama tell me, in case I’m straining to see a logic that doesn’t exist in the first place.

IU plays the average girl who has had a one-sided crush on Pretty Man since junior high, and Lee Jang-woo (Oh Ja-ryung Is Coming) is the nice guy who ends up falling for her. On paper, I’m all for the nice guy over the one who thinks it’s a good thing to be professionally pretty to get things for free, but I’m sure the point of the drama will be how the bad boy really has a heart of gold on the inside and falls for the sweet average girl, right? Right?

Pretty Man premieres Wednesday on KBS. And in case you haven’t seen it, the second teaser is below.





































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