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What does it instrumentality to beryllium the starring antheral successful a romance K-Drama?
In Netflix’s newest show, Can This Love Be Translated?,Kim Seon-ho, the histrion astatine the helm of it all, plays polyglot interpreter Joo Ho-jin. He is mostly detached, no-nonsense and committed to ensuring emotions bash not get successful the mode of his job. “I lone walk on the words radical say, not justice what benignant of idiosyncratic they are,” helium declares aboriginal connected successful the show.
It isn’t agelong earlier this resoluteness is enactment to the trial arsenic the amusement takes its leads, Seon-ho and histrion Go Youn-jung, to Japan, Canada and Italy. Soon enough, sparks alert nether the Northern lights, astatine quaint vino bars, a picturesque winery, and done winding cobblestone streets.
As scenic and ripe for romance arsenic the mounting is, the feelings passim the bid are a tangled web, often meandering, analyzable and thing Seon-ho says helium had to support successful caput portion interpreting the quality of Ho-jin, to spell beyond the cosmopolitan emotions and expressions that travel with the genre.
Kim Seon-ho arsenic Joo Ho-jin successful ‘Can This Love Be Translated?' | Photo Credit: Netflix
“Ho-jin is not idiosyncratic who is truly retired determination oregon precise active; he’s idiosyncratic who’s precise calm, precise level successful a way, and besides precise reserved. I paid attraction to small details that I could adhd to explicit his emotions. For instance, the mode I would look astatine someone, the slightest question of my eyebrows oregon conscionable what helium would bash with his fingers,” helium says, during a Zoom interview.
A seasoned theatre actor, Seon-ho further says helium focused connected expressing galore nuanced details done reacting alternatively than acting, portion designing the character.
Since its merchandise connected January 16, Can This Love Be Translated? continues to beryllium among Netflix’s apical 5 most-watched shows successful India. Seon-ho is each smiles arsenic helium speaks astir the show, and says that helium began prepping for his relation arsenic an interpreter fluent successful aggregate languages from astir 4 months earlier they started filming.
(L to R) Go Youn-jung arsenic Cha Mu-hee / Do Ra-mi, Kim Seon-ho arsenic Joo Ho-jin successful ‘Can This Love Be Translated?’ | Photo Credit: Netflix
“I met with the antithetic coaches for each of the respective languages to study, and connected the time we person those multilingual scenes, each connection manager would beryllium determination connected acceptable with me. We would tweak the details and nuances together. I person to say, though, it was not casual to do,” helium explains. Bringing up a circumstantial country wherever helium had to talk Korean, Italian and Japanese, Seon-ho recalls however hard this was. “And this is conscionable a sidebar, but aft finishing that shoot, I started stuttering erstwhile I was speaking Korean lines due to the fact that I had been truthful nervous,” helium laughs.
Director Yoo Young-eun speaks
Reflecting connected casting for Can This Love Be Translated, manager Yoo Young-eun says that she thought Kim Seon-ho was the cleanable acceptable to play the relation of Ho-jin.
“He has that consciousness of maturity and besides being grounded, but astatine the aforesaid time, helium is susceptible of truly portraying nuances. The crushed wherefore Mu-hee, played by Go Youn-jun, too, is truthful lovable and earnest is due to the fact that of however she says truthful much, and yet you tin spot close done her. She is precise transparent, and I consciousness Young-jun is precisely similar this successful existent beingness arsenic well,” she says.
Filming the K-Drama astatine aggregate locations astir the satellite meant that she had to wage keen attraction to guarantee these places carried meaning successful presumption of the storyline’s progression and the meaning they inherently held. “Of course, erstwhile you are shooting successful antithetic countries extracurricular of your location country, there’s a batch that tin spell wrong. However, acknowledgment to the formed and unit putting successful truthful overmuch effort and truly trying their best, I deliberation we were capable to bash everything smoothly,” she adds.
After starring successful the 2023 action-thriller movie The Childe and thegritty thriller amusement The Tyrant successful 2024, projects that came retired aft a nonrecreational interruption pursuing a narration controversy, helium went viral successful 2025 for his short, saccharine cameo successful the deed show Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines. A country from the show, wherever helium winks and flashes his dimples, spawned a viral ‘smile challenge’.
Now, with the merchandise of Can This Love Be Translated?, it is simply a instrumentality for the histrion to the romance genre. He laughs erstwhile asked if the genre is thing helium peculiarly enjoys.
“I deliberation I’m not idiosyncratic who’s drawn to a genre. I’m much drawn to the communicative and the quality arc of the peculiar quality that I would beryllium playing. I’m truly drawn to the backstory of these characters, what their beingness was similar earlier we get to conscionable them, what they are struggling with, and however they resoluteness those struggles. I deliberation that’s thing that truly makes maine privation to instrumentality connected the situation of playing a role,” helium says, adding “I don’t cognize if I tin accidental that I similar oregon similar the romance genre, but I deliberation it is decidedly a genre that’s challenging, and thing that I enjoy.”
(L to R) Kim Seon-ho arsenic Joo Ho-jin, Go Youn-jung arsenic Cha Mu-hee / Do Ra-mi successful ‘Can This Love Be Translated?’ | Photo Credit: Netflix
With him being onscreen for a ample chunk of the amusement with Go Youn-jung, Seon-ho says that arsenic an introvert, helium had to consciously enactment connected being an extrovert connected the set.
“You person to beryllium truly approachable and teardrop down immoderate walls that you whitethorn have, successful bid to physique that narration and chemistry truthful that you and your country partners consciousness precise comfy with 1 another,” helium says. With Young-jun successful particular, Seon-ho says this was casual to bash fixed their involvement successful the show. “Her level of passionateness for acting is genuinely immense. I’m precise grateful that she was my partner, and it was an honour for me,” helium smiles.
Can This Love Be Translated?is presently streaming connected Netflix
