Lee Min-ho is a reputation you possibly can’t keep away from within the Hallyu waves. Over the previous 14 years, together with his quite a few reveals, he is established himself because the not-so-regular Prince Charming — the dangerous boy you develop to like, in opposition to your will. And now, he is prepared for a moderately totally different avatar in Apple TV’s Pachinko, the place he performs a much more nuanced function than what we have seen him earlier than. In Pachinko, we will see him as a chilly and calculative dealer, who has ties with the mafia. What’s extra is that Lee Min-ho auditioned for this function, producing additional buzz across the present. “The character is very different from anything I have ever done before. I’ve always had this thirst for trying out something new, and this was the perfect opportunity,” Lee Min ho- had stated earlier. He is certain that the character Hansu from Pachinko is the ‘start line’ of his profession for the following 10 years. He desires to interrupt away from the picture of the inscrutable and mysterious hero that folks have seen in him to this point.
I’ve not often rooted for Lee Min-ho’s characters within the reveals that spurred on the Hallyu Wave — and that is when he performed the protagonist, so it should be enjoyable to see what precisely he presents in Pachinko. Lee Min-ho enjoying a doubtful character stuffed with shades of gray? Sign us up. At least this time, you will not be pressured to root for him, however as an alternative would possibly respect his performing prowess much more.
Min-ho was catapulted to fame with Boys Over Flowers, a soapy present on the love lives of wealthy college students at a college. He turned the epitome of that Ok-drama love and mush, together with his cheeky grins and smiles—in addition to his tears, proving that even when the story wasn’t value obsessing over, he actually knew easy methods to cry on display screen. Boys Over Flowers seems to be a ceremony of passage for Hallyu newcomers as I used to be informed—-apparently you possibly can’t get into the Ok-drama scene with out Boys Over Flowers and Heirs, each of which stars the smouldering Lee Min-ho. Both are high-school dramas the place he performs the wealthy brat and has to combat mates and enemies over the woman he loves. In Boys Over Flowers, he sports activities curly hair, and wears fur coats, whereas aggressively attempting to get Koo Hye-sun to fall in love with him, whereas his greatest buddy turns rival. In The Heirs, his hair is kind of the identical, and he wears an costly uniform whereas shoving round Park Shin-hye, to maintain her away from the roving eye of Kim Woo-bin.
Lee Min Ho with Koo Hye-Sun (Netflix)
While in the present day most will name his character a poisonous bully, on the time, audiences swooned over the ‘bad-boy-turned-good’ trope. Lee Min-ho stormed round debating with cussed mother and father, stood within the rain ready for the woman to reconcile with him, threw a number of punches, has a near-death expertise and at last a contented ending. The reveals loved monumental worldwide fame, and result in Lee Min-ho changing into synonymous with the Korean wave. It all constructed into his picture—the macho hero, and the male saviour, who might seem out of nowhere to save lots of you. Later in 2020 with The King: Eternal Monarch, Lee Min-ho accomplished his transition to swoon-worthy Prince Charming, as he acquired a horse, so as to add a last crowning glory to his picture.
However, later, he starred in The Legend Of The Blue Sea—a curiously fantastical present, which intertwined themes of destiny, rebirth and love. To be sincere, that is a present of his that deserves extra credit score than it will get, owing to its uncommon storyline and plaintive love story. After sitting by way of Heirs and Boys Over Flowers and getting infuriated with Lee Min-ho all through, Legend Of The Blue Sea was really the place he felt like much less problematic. This was the place I felt that he really acted, as an alternative of simply switching between moping and stoicism.
A nonetheless from Legend Of The Blue Sea (Photo: Netflix)
In 2020, he made his comeback with The King: Eternal Monarch — a convoluted story of parallel universes, totally different worlds, and the reversal of tragic incidents in his historical past. While the present, starring the ever-sturdy Kim Go-eun, appeared to have gotten entangled in its personal story — Lee Min-ho lastly appeared to have left the shadow of Junpyo and Kim Tan (The Heirs) behind him. He performed the function of a King Lee Gon, who’s attempting to unravel the difficult story of his father’s homicide, in addition to perceive why he has the police ID of a lady who would not exist in his world. I needed to admit that with out the aura of a stalking bully hovering round him, he created startling, refreshing chemistry with Kim Go-eun. I may not have understood what was occurring with the story after some extent, however would gladly watch it for the 2 of them.
And now it is time for Pachinko. It stays to be seen what Lee Min-ho would do with this uncommon function.
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