‘Bromance’ Next is ‘Romance’. Netflix, which announced a pleasant start to the year with the success of its first original series featuring bromance, ‘Trauma Center’, is looking to continue its upward trend with the sweet romance series ‘Melo Movie’, starring Choi Woo-shik and Park Bo-young.

‘Melo Movie’, which will be released on Valentine‘s Day (February 14), a day for lovers, is a drama that depicts the story of ambiguous youths overcoming their own traumas and becoming inspirations for each other. It is expected to be a new youth drama for the so-called ‘Thirty-somethings’, ambiguous youths who cannot be called young but are immature.

In particular, this work was written by writer Lee Na-eun, who presented the essence of ‘youth romance’ through SBS ‘That Year, Us’, which aired in 2021, and is a representative ‘Tofu Shop’ in the entertainment industry who has been loved for her kind and pure charm. Actors Choi Woo-shik and Park Bo-young’s chemistry has raised expectations even higher.

In the drama, Choi Woo-shik and Park Bo-young play the roles of Go Gyeom, a man who loves movies so much that his dream is to see every movie in the world, and Kim Moo-bi, a woman who hates movies despite her name but becomes a film director. The two, who met by chance and fell for each other, but broke up when Go Gyeom suddenly disappeared one day, meet again five years later as a film critic and a film director to depict a ‘reunion romance’.

At the production conference held at the JW Marriott Dongdaemun Square Grand Ballroom in Seoul, the two caught attention by saying that they showcased acting different from the characters they have played before in this work.

Choi Woo-shik, who reunited with writer Lee Na-eun after ‘That Year, Us’, said that while Choi Woong, who he played in “‘That Year, Us’, was an introverted character, the Go Gyeom he plays this time is an extroverted and outgoing character. She described him as a “capital E” (MBTI) personality who knows how to ask for help when things get tough, and as “a man who never gives up” who consistently goes straight to the person he likes.

Park Bo-young, who has mainly played lovable characters so far, introduced Kim Moo-bi, who she plays, as “a cynical character I’ve never done before,” and said, “In my previous romances, I always tried to raise the tone. But this time, I tried to lower the tone to fit the character.”


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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