{"id":102329,"date":"2024-01-21T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=102329"},"modified":"2024-01-21T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:01:02","slug":"a-shop-for-killers-director-confessed-the-reason-why-he-cast-lee-dong-wook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/a-shop-for-killers-director-confessed-the-reason-why-he-cast-lee-dong-wook\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Shop for Killers&#8217; director confessed the reason why he cast Lee Dong-wook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent press conference with the cast for the new<strong> Disney+<\/strong> K-Drama &#8216;<strong>A Shop for Killers<\/strong>&#8216;, its director confessed the reason why he chose <strong>Lee Dong-wook<\/strong> as the star, highlighting and praising his great abilities in acting and physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In the new South Korean production, the renowed actor plays a mercenary-turned-arms dealer, <strong>Jung Jin-man<\/strong>, who raised his niece until she went to college, but his death made her return, and she found herself in many troubles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kdrama_menfess\/status\/1746828020076446158\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2022kdm\u2022 Press Conference untuk drama A Shop for Killers. Tayang mulai rabu <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GjcPkiILzx\">pic.twitter.com\/GjcPkiILzx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; K-Drama Menfess (@kdrama_menfess) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kdrama_menfess\/status\/1746828020076446158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the press conference held on January 15th, the main cast and director talked more about the action series. For his part, <strong>Lee Kwon<\/strong> revealed details of the process to choose the main male actor and why it does not match the <strong>characteristics of the original novel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The character, Jung Jin-man, is actually a very <strong>heavy-built, bald man in the original novel<\/strong>, and there wasn\u2019t an actor who could portray that in terms of looks. Unlike in the novel, in our show, we wanted to <strong>showcase the backstory of the character<\/strong>, and a lot of the series is dedicated to the past of Jung Jin-man<\/em>&#8220;, said the director Lee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>So <strong>I wanted a good-looking, fierce guy<\/strong> who had that combative spirit. For me, I also wanted the character to have an ice-cold demeanor, so <strong>I thought Dong-wook was the perfect fit<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, he finally said about his decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent press conference with the cast for the new Disney+ K-Drama &#8216;A Shop for Killers&#8216;, its director confessed the reason why he chose Lee Dong-wook as the star, highlighting and praising his great abilities in acting and physical appearance. In the new South Korean production, the renowed actor plays a mercenary-turned-arms dealer, Jung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":102346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1934],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-k-drama"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}