Baro up for Jaejoong and UEE’s time-slip rom-com Manhole
by tineybeanie
B1A4’s Baro is considering his first drama comeback since Angry Mom where he played a rebellious bully two years ago. He’s been offered a role in JYJ Jaejoong’s (Spy) upcoming KBS drama Manhole.
It’s a fantasy comedy about an unemployed unlucky and lazy bum who accidentally falls into a street manhole and discovers it’s a time-slip portal into the past. The drama is all about him traveling back and forth through time using the manhole to prevent a wedding that’s supposed to happen a week in the future. Jaejoong has already been confirmed in the lead role, and UEE (Night Light) will be playing the object of his one-sided crush, his best female friend who’s about to get married.
Baro’s character, Jo Seok-taek, thinks he’s good friends with Jaejoong, but Jaejoong only thinks of him as a sidekick. They have a weird history, because when they were younger, Baro confessed to a girl that Jaejoong liked, and was beaten in the middle of the night for it. And Baro character is the type of person who is timid but holds a grudge for a long time.
So I don’t know quite why he thinks they’re still friends, but he does end up presenting a significant obstacle in Jaejoong’s life, especially with his tendency to be aggressively straightforward in his love life. Hopefully his character will get the same kind of turnaround that his bully in Angry Mom got, so that he can graduate from sidekick to friend.
Wednesday-Thursday time adventure rom-com Manhole will air in August, after the end of Seven Day Queen.
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1 spazmo
June 26, 2017 at 12:52 PM
double SQUEEEEE!!
Baro AND Jaejoong???
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2 hannaehh
June 26, 2017 at 12:57 PM
Adding more reason for me to watch this! Jaejoong and Baro? I'm definitely in though I don't really like UEE, but I'm gonna give it a try!
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3 Kimbap?
June 26, 2017 at 1:10 PM
I guess it is drama justice that a former bully gets beaten up in the next project.
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4 LollyPip
June 26, 2017 at 1:17 PM
"Baro up for ~insert literally any drama title here~.
YES PLEASE!
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5 Pickwick12
June 26, 2017 at 1:27 PM
I love him more than the already-announced leads! If his role is big enough, I might watch with assumed SLS at the outset. Bingguere 4ever ;)
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6 redfox
June 26, 2017 at 1:29 PM
so a time slip? isnt Jaejoong too tall for it to work - his feet will be in the past and his head will be peeping out of the manhole into the present. I kind of want to watch that kind of drama now though...
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Kimbap?
June 26, 2017 at 2:03 PM
Time traveling decapitation? That's an awesome and wildly original pitch!
Where would his torso be?
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redfox
June 26, 2017 at 3:08 PM
no decapitation. the wormhole would stretch him through time. truly the head doesn´t know what the feet are doing as the saying goes.
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ObsessedMuch
June 26, 2017 at 2:17 PM
Ha! This reminds me of Ron 'splinching' himself in Harry Potter 7! O_O
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redfox
June 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM
what´s "splinching"? unfortunately I have no idea who or what.
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ObsessedMuch
June 30, 2017 at 8:52 AM
Sorry for the late reply...
It is mistakenly leaving parts of your body while you "apparate" (magically travel from one place to another) so that some parts (like an ankle or a whole leg) is left in the place you were and the other reaches the destination you wanted to go to.
Yes, it is as gory as it sounds.
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meowingme
June 26, 2017 at 7:41 PM
Gosh, this kind of thread is just what I need in office after long weekend *wipes coffee spurts off monitor*
Am assuming truck of doom will be offered a role in this pitch?
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7 Lunabird
June 26, 2017 at 1:52 PM
I remember Baro with Kim Yoo Jung in Angry Mom, and that he did pretty well in that show. I'm more excited for Jaejoong though (since I am a fangirl) so I probably will check this show out depending on the next advertisements.
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8 banana
June 26, 2017 at 2:27 PM
Wow so many fantasy dramas coming out soon! Glad it's shifting away from law/crime.
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9 sidnerella
June 26, 2017 at 2:41 PM
Seems like this drama will be filled with actor-idols that I love!! Its a DATE!!! excited
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10 Adal
June 26, 2017 at 4:32 PM
I've heard good things about him though I've never watched him in anything before. Maybe I need to tune in to see for myself how well he does?
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11 owl
June 26, 2017 at 6:43 PM
This can work - I'm in!
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12 gadis
June 26, 2017 at 6:46 PM
So far, the cast is good. Gopefully the story will be as funny and interesting as the premise promised.
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13 musicnmelody
June 26, 2017 at 6:55 PM
This sounds like proposal daisakusen to me ?
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14 Napkiin
June 26, 2017 at 7:42 PM
Is it just me or this sounds a little bit like Yamapi's Proposal Daisakusen? (Didn't Korea remake this one too?)
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15 meowingme
June 26, 2017 at 7:46 PM
Love how this drama is very generous with their character descriptions; finding "beaten in the middle of the night after confessing" is so random and so funny. August can't come soon enough!
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16 wonderlust
June 26, 2017 at 10:23 PM
A bit like Operation Proposal isn't it?
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17 dodo
June 27, 2017 at 3:10 AM
For me everything sounds good other than the title 'Manhole'.
For some reason it sounds pretty ....
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18 wakimary
June 27, 2017 at 6:37 PM
as if it wasn't enough that it's Jaejoong's return to Drama Land, they add in Baro. Oh my fan girl heart...
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