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Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN Information
MANILA — Earlier than changing into one in all South Korea’s hottest actresses, Suzy was first a Okay-pop star, debuting as a part of the hitmaking feminine act Miss A. Now, nearly six years because the group’s disbandment, Suzy was in a position to return to her idol roots by means of her new drama “Doona!”.
Within the romance sequence, which premieres Oct. 20 on Netflix, Suzy performs the titular character Lee Doona, a member of a lady group known as Candy Dream who immediately retires from the leisure trade regardless of being on the peak of her reputation.
Doona strikes to a share home at a university city, the place she meets and will get entangled with a naive faculty freshman, Lee Received-jun (performed by Yang Se-jong).
“As I used to be performing out Doona, I did consider the instances once I was a part of a lady group,” Suzy mentioned at a web based press convention on Wednesday.
“So trying again, I really feel like there have been moments that I felt I used to be struggling however I did not actually know a lot. I feel I attempted to disclaim that I used to be struggling. I attempted to only keep [as] a bubbly particular person,” she mentioned.
Making comparisons to her character, Suzy mentioned, “Doona is totally different. She would specific her emotions to each extent and she or he lets herself endure. So I used to be form of envious of her and I form of resonated together with her in that sense.”
Filming at KCON
Director Lee Jeong-hyo, who helmed different standard dramas equivalent to “Romance is a Bonus Ebook” and “Crash Touchdown On You,” shared that “Doona!” filmed scenes at KCON Japan final yr.
“The 4 folks within the Dream Candy group, together with Suzy, would do the choreography, dance and recording. After which all of us flew over to Japan to try this efficiency on KCON,” he mentioned.
Lee mentioned he even felt like an precise supervisor of a lady group when the fictional Dream Candy carried out at KCON, some of the famend Okay-pop festivals.
“We weren’t on the precise stage however it was the prequel stage and we solely had two takes to go,” he recounted. “After we did the entire track… I felt like I used to be an agent for Dream Candy, that I used to be giving them this dream debut stage.”
It had been “fairly a very long time” since Suzy, dubbed as “The Nation’s First Love” in her house nation, carried out on stage with different artists.
“It was fairly new as a result of I had totally different members this time. We acquired fairly shut to one another. At first, it was a large number however then afterward we turned higher synchronized as a bunch. I felt very glad,” she mentioned.
‘Thrilling’
Suzy mentioned she determined to hitch “Doona!” after discovering the story “thrilling.”
“Once I first acquired the script, I went forward and browse the unique webtoon as a result of it’s based mostly on an unique webtoon… it was so thrilling, actually. There was that individual temper and vibe that was distinctive to ‘Doona!’,” she mentioned.
“I used to be additionally drawn to the character as a result of it’s a personality I’ve by no means performed earlier than,” she added.
Yang equally felt excited upon initially studying the script. “My coronary heart was pounding so loud,” he mentioned.
The 30-year-old actor mentioned “Doona!” may be “the final drama sequence ever for me to have the ability to play a personality like Received-jun, who’s in his early 20s in order that’s why I made a decision to return on board.”
Yang admitted he initially felt “burdened” by “Doona!”, which marks his first sequence mission after 4 years.
“Earlier than going into the mission, there was a really quick however sturdy interval once I felt this burden however I managed it and mentioned I ought to get into character and simply deal with the script,” he mentioned.
Suzy, then again, mentioned she didn’t really feel stress following the success of her earlier mission “Anna.”
“They’re very totally different characters and as I used to be getting ready for the character Doona, it was so vastly totally different… I feel I used to be extra excited [than burdened],” she mentioned.
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