Choi Hyun-wook is challenging his first romance drama.

He will star alongside Moon Ga-young in the new tvN drama ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’, which will premiere on the 17th.

In this drama, he will not be co-starring with other actors, but will instead be leading the drama with Moon Ga-young alone.

‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’ depicts the romance between Baek Soo-jung (Moon Ga-young), a department store planning team leader suffering from a dark past, and Ban Joo-yeon (Choi Hyun-wook), the ‘third-generation chaebol’ headquarters manager who holds a black flame dragon in her heart. It is based on the popular Naver webtoon of the same name by Hyejin Yang.

Director Lee Soo-hyun, who was in charge of directing, attended the production presentation held online on the 12th and said, “People whose first loves turned into dark histories meet again at the company, and they fall in love without knowing it and end up facing their dark histories.” “It‘s a fun romance that also shows the characters growing through this.”

In the drama, Choi Hyun-wook plays a character who hides his nerd side and joins a department store in order to be recognized as a perfectionist conglomerate heir.

He said, “It’s my first time challenging this genre and role, but it was that much fun.” “Above all, I relied on and learned a lot from Moon Ga-young while filming. In the scenes where we were together, we did a lot of ad-libs that weren‘t in the script. He said, “I acted confidently because he accepted all my ad-libs.”

He continued, “I’m wearing a lot of different suits this time. I focused on a restrained gait and tone to match. Also, I acted while paying attention to those parts because although I show a perfect appearance inside the company, my otaku ‘Black Flame Dragon’ appearance is different.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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