Choi Won-young to play Choi Ji-woo’s husband in Twenty Again
by girlfriday
Ah, we finally find out more about Choi Ji-woo’s husband in her new tvN drama Twenty Again, now that the role has been cast. Choi Won-young (I Remember You) has signed on for the part, which is bound to make the love triangle interesting because he’s so good at being charismatic no matter the character he plays (he’s especially compelling and creepy in his current drama I Remember You). Okay, so admittedly I won’t be THAT conflicted — she might be married to the guy, but come on — Lee Sang-yoon.
The coming-of-age drama stars Choi Ji-woo as a woman who became a wife and mother at 19, and gets a second chance to experience college life when she decides to go back to school twenty years later. Her husband fell in love with her at first sight when she was an 18-year-old dancer, but he’s a professor of psychology who looks down on her for not being college-educated, and eventually asks for a divorce. Well now I’m already rooting for her to stick it to him.
His character is a master at crafting his image, and an intellectual snob who thinks and acts on his own. He believes he’s extremely mature, but he’s actually a person whose actions are quite different from his words. We don’t know if they’ll already be divorced by the time she shows up as a student on his campus, or if winning him over is part of the reason she goes back (or if he’s embarrassed because she goes back to school), but it should make for a pretty good conflict.
Added to that is of course her reunion with first love Lee Sang-yoon, who will be a professor in the theater/film department. I’m just glad to know that he actually has a shot at this romance, given that all we’ve heard in the casting stories until now is that she’d have a husband. Her son (Kim Min-jae) and his girlfriend (Sohn Na-eun) will be her fellow freshman classmates, because yunno, this is dramaland and there’s only one university in the entire world.
Twenty Again follows Oh My Ghostess in August.
Via Osen
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1 mary
July 21, 2015 at 12:21 PM
Ooooooooooooooooh... So he's like a Professor version of Dokko Jin. Hehehe.
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mary
July 21, 2015 at 12:24 PM
(On a shallow note)
Damn that is a hotjusshi pic of him. Did gf choose that?
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OMG it's Healer ?
July 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM
Haha. He looks even more hot than in I Remember You/Helloe Monster right now. :D
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2 TrinPie
July 21, 2015 at 12:22 PM
I'm glad the husband storyline is turning out this way. It will make it easier to root on the new romance if her ex-husband (or future ex-husband) is a snobbish jerk.
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3 OMG it's Healer ?
July 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Oh man I'm gonna forward to this drama after OMGhostess ends. Wahoo!
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4 bebeswtz
July 21, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Wow, Choi Won Young is picking up a lot of roles in a very short period of time, lately!! Not that I'm complaining hehe but I must say, my favourite role from him so far is his assistant role from "Kill Me, Heal Me" XD
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5 Lizzie
July 21, 2015 at 12:59 PM
Yaaaaaaaasssssss!!!! Also love the pic. you chose.. :)))
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6 Shel
July 21, 2015 at 2:36 PM
Ok....this looks interesting and all, but I have so little time for dramas these days, it's kind of depressing...
BUT,
When I pulled up your site, Kang Ji Hwan's photo with the "I'll have your tears for breakfast" banner made my day. I miss KJH, and this pic hadn't come up in awhile....
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7 Mandy
July 21, 2015 at 2:36 PM
"Her son and his girlfriend will be her fellow freshman classmates, because yunno, this is dramaland and there’s only one university in the entire world."
LOL. I like the more mature-sounding romance. More importantly, I can see myself rooting for both guys depending on how they are characterized on screen. It's good to root for both sides of the triangle instead of being swept by a fanwar. Now I'm looking forward to the drama.
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8 whilethemusiclasts
July 21, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Okay, yay. Now I can root for Lee Sang Yoon freely and without guilt. I know we all wanted Lee Seo Jin to play the husband, but then that would have been majorly conflicting. Or maybe not at all... But now that the husband has been cast, I'm satisfied. Choi Won Young is a cutie ahjussi but he's not Lee Seo Jin. Also, with the jerk description of his character, I don't think we should be rooting for him. So Mr. Dimples it is.
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9 lordseungri
July 21, 2015 at 3:50 PM
Omg this ajhussi is awesome. One of the only good things in Heirs....but come on Mr. dimple wins still hands down
My excitement for this show is increasing so rapidly
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10 Diana
July 21, 2015 at 4:31 PM
The more I read news about this drama, the more I want to watch it. ^_^
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11 juniper
July 21, 2015 at 5:02 PM
Kind of sounds like a simplistic version of the marriage in A Wife's Credentials with all the difficult, morally gnarly bits combed out in favor of rom com tropes. Well, I suppose that would be tvN's answer to jTBC. I'm just saying, if we're going to talk about marriages not working out, why not confront the issue of divorce head-on instead of forcing things into your typical love triangle? This show is a long while off and it already feels emotionally disingenuous to have her ex-husband (or soon-to-be ex) presented as the nasty, high-falutin Plan A who finds himself an also-ran, while she's absolved of the stigma of divorce by trying to save the marriage or win him back, when any rational adult should have moved forward and realized she needed to live for herself, on her own terms.
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12 rhea
July 21, 2015 at 6:24 PM
Acclaimed scriptwriter, great casting... this one’s gonna be a winner even before it starts. I’m just really glad its not with the Big 3 as recently I’ve begun to realize cable stations especially TVN and JTBC have been hiring all the great talents and perhaps its because they are cable, they put less pressure on the creatives allowing their true talent really shine and hence one hit production after another. (Reply series, Emergency Couple, Secret Love Affair etc). Even Na PD seems to have flourished given the free hand he is allowed to make the kind of shows he wants to.
Kinda had enough of the rubbish that is executives changing scriptwriters, directors, halfway into productions, story lines taking drastic turns to cater to fanfare and advertisers.
So excited!!! Can’t wait.
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13 Y.
July 21, 2015 at 6:30 PM
Well, now knowing this added information, I'm pretty relieved this isn't the same kind of relationship of the one in 'Angry Mom' ^^U
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14 Sera The Ms Temper
July 21, 2015 at 8:23 PM
the only character of his that i totally dislike is ex-husband of eugene in a hundred years inheritance. hehe. apart from that, hes awesome and can be hot ahjusshi also. :P
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korfan
July 22, 2015 at 4:40 AM
Oh my goodness, his role as Eugene's husband, then, ex-husband! He's the only thing I remember from that drama. ...... One minute he was making Eugene's life miserable, then he's throwing a tantrum in front of his mother like a spoiled brat, then he'd drink himself into a confused stupor, only to end up pursuing his ex like a clueless adolescent! ..... And he'd do all this with a comedic touch. It was hilarious.
Looking forward to what he's going to do here, because he's been doing a variety of roles lately ..... and they've all been interesting.
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15 Mildred
July 22, 2015 at 5:00 AM
Can't wait for this drama to unfold!!
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16 maddragonqueen
July 22, 2015 at 1:09 PM
Ok. I'm sold on this now. Good job, Show.
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17 cshgdchagi
July 24, 2015 at 6:01 AM
Why wasn't Lee Seo Jin cast in this drama? :(If the first love character was a bit short-tempered who'd probably pick on Choi Ji Woo's character, then he'd definitely fit the role! Hahah but yeah, it'd seem more like a reality show than a drama. Anyhow, can't wait for this drama, lovin' the storyline already! :)
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