tvN’s new Monday-Tuesday drama “Marry My Husband,” which will air for the first time on January 1 next year, is a drama in which a woman, murdered by her husband who has an affair with her best friend, returns to 10 years ago to lead a second life. A press conference to introduce the drama will be held on December 27.
The public’s attention is also focusing on the acting transformation of Park Min-young. The actress lost weight to 37kg to express the situation of the main character Kang Ji-won, who is battling cancer. Park Min-young, who studied the character’s inner and outer appearances in detail, also expressed her passion for the character, saying, “I tried to lose weight to express a little bit of Kang Ji-won’s deadly pain, not just being skinny, and I actually endured by drinking ion drinks during the filming.“
Park Min-young’s extreme diet and still cuts of her as a cancer-fighting patient have been revealed, drawing attention even before the drama’s first broadcast. However, the story of “my husband and best friend having an affair so I have a revenge on them” or the main character having cancer are already portrayed in various Korean dramas in the past.
A number of works have ended up facing criticism because of these clichés. Examples include JTBC’s “The Empire,” “Thirty-Nine,” “Dr. Cha,” SBS’s “The Escape of the Seven,” and tvN’s “Maestra: Strings of Truth,” which is currently on air.
Will the characters of “Marry My Husband” fall into thế cliché? The cast, including Park Min-young, has been praised for boasting high synchronicity with the original webtoon characters, so in order not to waste such a good cast, old-fashioned productions and absurd settings should be avoided.
Source: TenAsia
