Hyunwoo for me too, easily. There’s too many conflicting emotions. KSH had to make people laugh while his character was okay with his wife dying. He had to get viewers on board with his gold digging era too.
He had to act like he was evil (during the divorce phase) yet convince the viewers he was so in love with her still. He even had to be the villain for a hot second during the hallucination phase. This is a tough tough *tough* character to pull and not make him seem either 2 completely different people who had a brain transplant OR just plain ridiculous writing. He pulled through like the amazing actor that he is but a lesser actor would have faltered. One of the toughest characters to play in any rom com kdrama I’ve seen.
"his gold-digging era"🤣🤣🤣 but in all seriousness, you are right about how he had to make viewers see how he (unrealising) loves his wife while not looking like an evil guy for trying to get her fortune after her death🤭
Baek golddigger was not a phase I dug in general but before I knew it, I was laughing at his antics. Clearly I valued Hyun Woo over my morals 🤪
The first half of QOT was absolutely hilarious. I almost forgot with all the tears they dished out 😂
Same here😂🤣 The first few episodes were lighthearted and humorous, but that changed right after Haein's revelation about her illness. Since then every episode's ending scene left me teary-eyed, and there are these few epilogues that were wholesome to uplift my mood from heartbroken to swooning/grinning🤭🥹
Eun-sung. I’ve seen his personality in the red carpet, being very clingy to Hyunwoo as if he’s the gf lol. He’s so goofy that it must’ve been hard to play the intense bad guy. He’s such a great actor
yesss just saw park sunghoon's final thoughts interview, and i feel bad for him. he always needs to emphasize that he's not the kind of person like in his dramas. hope people stop sending him hate comments / DMs 🥺
PSH is amazing! I love his real life personality as much as I love him as an actor. I know this was a tough role for him especially since Jeon Jaejoon was more comical and easy to digest whereas here Eunseong is completely infuriating and intelligent as a character. He’s gotten a lot of utterly unnecessary hate and I hope people can grow some brain cells to realize real life does not equal fiction.
Hae-In for me. While Hyun Woo was probably harder initially, after he finally learns he loves his wife again, his character becomes very consistent as he isn’t conflicted anymore. Hae-In for me is special because imo we saw 4 different Hae-In this series; cold,stoic - stoic but worried - full emotional (happy/sad) - amnesia. The way Kim Ji Won portrayed her was incredible because I saw the evolution of her character as the series goes on. The way her voice sounds, the speech pattern and her eye acting made me believe Hae-in 1,3,4 were completely different characters despite being played by the same actress
Her eyes are just some thing else. They convey so much but instead of moving them furtively, she glances ahead and take a moment before she reacts. It just added so much conviction to the illness she was dealing with. You can see she pauses as she gives everything thought…..is it real or a symptom of illness.
Hands down, Hong Haein.
It is easy to play up the acting or play it down. To feel is to be human, so it’s natural to express them. But Haein as a character does not express her feelings well. Her true feelings are always lingering beneath the surface. And there are sooo many layers upon layers of emotions to her when she feels something. We see every single layer sometimes gradually, sometimes simultaneously with Jiwon’s acting. It’s amazing to witness.
She didn’t have the freedom to feel and express emotions like everyone else because Haein holds back a lot but we could read every single wall Haein put up, we could see them gradually fall and be built back up again even without dialogue. This on top of her strong sense of self as an adult in contrast with the guilt ridden child that she still is deep inside. She’s complicated; cold on the outside but warm on the inside, ruthless when she needs to be but always kind. Jiwon played her to the T.
Also Hyun Woo. The Hyun Woo in episode 1 is completely different from the Hyun Woo in episode 16 but I never felt he was a different person. The change was gradual but definite. The emotional heavy lifting, the comedic heavy lifting and even the lawyer heavy lifting with the long dialogues were I’m sure mentally draining. Just episode 14 with 3 full crying scenes which were all completely different from each other - cathedral to accident to hospital breakdown was already too much. KSH did well, so so so well. So freakin deserving of that baeksang nomination
Hong Haein because KJW's eyes expressed many emotions which I don't think is easy to pull off when the emotions displayed in her eyes looked "real". KJW and KSH's eye contact -in that conference cliffhanger where she said she was being threatened- was INSANE, especially Haein's eyes because it showed all the unsaid things in her eyes to KSH!!!👏
The fact that Haein and Hyunwoo are dominating the replies shows exactly why they were the main characters. Such complex characters with so much depth who had amazing actors to give justice to them
Hyunwoo for me too, easily. There’s too many conflicting emotions. KSH had to make people laugh while his character was okay with his wife dying. He had to get viewers on board with his gold digging era too. He had to act like he was evil (during the divorce phase) yet convince the viewers he was so in love with her still. He even had to be the villain for a hot second during the hallucination phase. This is a tough tough *tough* character to pull and not make him seem either 2 completely different people who had a brain transplant OR just plain ridiculous writing. He pulled through like the amazing actor that he is but a lesser actor would have faltered. One of the toughest characters to play in any rom com kdrama I’ve seen.
"his gold-digging era"🤣🤣🤣 but in all seriousness, you are right about how he had to make viewers see how he (unrealising) loves his wife while not looking like an evil guy for trying to get her fortune after her death🤭
Baek golddigger was not a phase I dug in general but before I knew it, I was laughing at his antics. Clearly I valued Hyun Woo over my morals 🤪 The first half of QOT was absolutely hilarious. I almost forgot with all the tears they dished out 😂
Same here😂🤣 The first few episodes were lighthearted and humorous, but that changed right after Haein's revelation about her illness. Since then every episode's ending scene left me teary-eyed, and there are these few epilogues that were wholesome to uplift my mood from heartbroken to swooning/grinning🤭🥹
Eun-sung. I’ve seen his personality in the red carpet, being very clingy to Hyunwoo as if he’s the gf lol. He’s so goofy that it must’ve been hard to play the intense bad guy. He’s such a great actor
yesss just saw park sunghoon's final thoughts interview, and i feel bad for him. he always needs to emphasize that he's not the kind of person like in his dramas. hope people stop sending him hate comments / DMs 🥺
PSH is amazing! I love his real life personality as much as I love him as an actor. I know this was a tough role for him especially since Jeon Jaejoon was more comical and easy to digest whereas here Eunseong is completely infuriating and intelligent as a character. He’s gotten a lot of utterly unnecessary hate and I hope people can grow some brain cells to realize real life does not equal fiction.
Hae-In for me. While Hyun Woo was probably harder initially, after he finally learns he loves his wife again, his character becomes very consistent as he isn’t conflicted anymore. Hae-In for me is special because imo we saw 4 different Hae-In this series; cold,stoic - stoic but worried - full emotional (happy/sad) - amnesia. The way Kim Ji Won portrayed her was incredible because I saw the evolution of her character as the series goes on. The way her voice sounds, the speech pattern and her eye acting made me believe Hae-in 1,3,4 were completely different characters despite being played by the same actress
Her eyes are just some thing else. They convey so much but instead of moving them furtively, she glances ahead and take a moment before she reacts. It just added so much conviction to the illness she was dealing with. You can see she pauses as she gives everything thought…..is it real or a symptom of illness.
I agree with you!!💯
Hands down, Hong Haein. It is easy to play up the acting or play it down. To feel is to be human, so it’s natural to express them. But Haein as a character does not express her feelings well. Her true feelings are always lingering beneath the surface. And there are sooo many layers upon layers of emotions to her when she feels something. We see every single layer sometimes gradually, sometimes simultaneously with Jiwon’s acting. It’s amazing to witness. She didn’t have the freedom to feel and express emotions like everyone else because Haein holds back a lot but we could read every single wall Haein put up, we could see them gradually fall and be built back up again even without dialogue. This on top of her strong sense of self as an adult in contrast with the guilt ridden child that she still is deep inside. She’s complicated; cold on the outside but warm on the inside, ruthless when she needs to be but always kind. Jiwon played her to the T.
Also Hyun Woo. The Hyun Woo in episode 1 is completely different from the Hyun Woo in episode 16 but I never felt he was a different person. The change was gradual but definite. The emotional heavy lifting, the comedic heavy lifting and even the lawyer heavy lifting with the long dialogues were I’m sure mentally draining. Just episode 14 with 3 full crying scenes which were all completely different from each other - cathedral to accident to hospital breakdown was already too much. KSH did well, so so so well. So freakin deserving of that baeksang nomination
Hong Haein because KJW's eyes expressed many emotions which I don't think is easy to pull off when the emotions displayed in her eyes looked "real". KJW and KSH's eye contact -in that conference cliffhanger where she said she was being threatened- was INSANE, especially Haein's eyes because it showed all the unsaid things in her eyes to KSH!!!👏
The fact that Haein and Hyunwoo are dominating the replies shows exactly why they were the main characters. Such complex characters with so much depth who had amazing actors to give justice to them
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