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| yna@yna.co.kr 2023-03-22 18:03:50
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Yonhap) -- Actress Cha Joo-young, who made a strong impression as Choi Hye-jeong, a flight attendant in the Netflix series "The Glory," has transformed into a calm and smart corporate chief secretary.
Cha Joo-young has expressed confidence in her acting transformation during the press conference for upcoming KBS 2TV weekend drama ‘The Real Deal’ held at the Ramada Sindorim Hotel in Guro-gu, saying, "There is nothing similar to my previous work ('The Glory') in terms of appearance and personality."
“The Real Deal” is a drama about a fake contract romance between a single mother and a non-married man surrounding a baby in the womb, "Real," and is the story of a family growing up through pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare.
Single mother Oh Yeon-du is played by Baek Jin-hee and unmarried man Gong Tae-kyung played by Ahn Jae-hyun, while Cha Joo-young plays Gong Tae-kyung's childhood first love and NX Group's chief of staff Jang Se-jin. Jang Se-jin is a person who is trusted by the chairman's family with excellent work skills and is trying to succeed through Gong Tae-kyung.
When asked if Choi Hye-jeong, a character who is a flight attendant and a perpetrator of school violence, had such a strong image in "The Glory," Cha Joo-young said, "As you can see now, you can't see the image of the character in ‘The Glory.’" She laughed.
"I am preparing very differently from Hye-jeong to express Se-jin," she said. "Se-jin is moderately cool and indifferent." She explained, "She is a person who we can see in our everyday life."
Baek Jin-hee and Ahn Jae-hyeon, who work together in romance with fake contracts, introduced the work as "a warm drama on a spring day."
Oh Yeon-du, played by Baek Jin-hee, is a star lecturer in the Korean language field, and Gong Tae-kyung, played by Ahn Jae-hyeon, is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology infertility clinics with excellent skills. Initially, Kwak Si-yang was cast as Gong Tae-kyung, but he dropped out due to personal reasons.
Baek Jin-hee said, "Yeondu is a friend who has lived very passionately. In front of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she becomes a single mother with an unwanted pregnancy, and her life is reversed. I focused on acting so that Yeondoo wouldn't lose her loveliness," she said.
When asked how he felt about joining the work belatedly, Ahn Jae-hyeon replied, "I'm preparing as much as I can day by day."
In the drama, there are also faces that are welcome to meet viewers after a long time. Kang Bu-ja stars as Gong Tae-kyung's grandmother Eun Geum-sil, and Kim Chang-wan plays Jang Ho, Jang Se-jin's father.
As single mother and unmarried man are the main characters, the social atmosphere is also included in the drama.
The first episode will air at 8:05 p.m. on the 25th.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Yunhee Cho.)
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