Earlier this week, it emerged that Seo Ye-ji, who performed an writer with delinquent character dysfunction in K-drama hit It’s Okay To Not Be Okay, may very well have some points in actual life.
Leaked textual content messages from 2018 revealed that she and Crash Landing On You star Kim Jung-hyun had been in a relationship whereas he was engaged on Korean drama Time, and that she appeared to be a management freak. The two met whereas starring in 2018 romance Stay With Me.
More shockingly, she appeared to be the purpose for his unhealthy behaviour on the set of Time, which led to his co-star on the present, Girls’ Generation’s Seohyun, breaking into tears a number of occasions, and to him finally dropping out of the drama, with the present rewritten to accommodate his character naturally falling out of the story. He was additionally a lot criticised again in 2018 for being stone-faced and reticent at the press convention for the drama.
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Now that these textual content messages have surfaced, it could shed some mild on his behaviour. Seo was apparently an ultra-controlling girlfriend who instructed Kim to keep away from all skinship whereas engaged on the present, which was problematic since the present was a romance drama. He was advised to “chorus from all bodily contact” and to “do every little thing with out ardour.” He had to report his actions to her, known as himself “Stiff Kim” in the messages, and keep away from greeting folks unnecessarily, particularly feminine workers. She advised him that he can solely contact her hand. Perhaps worst of all, no less than professionally, she advised him to regulate the script so it wouldn’t have any romantic scenes or bodily contact.
This led to issue for the writers and these on set, and significantly Kim’s co-star Seohyun, who reportedly cried loads, thanks to his impolite behaviour. He finally cited well being causes for dropping out of the present.
In the wake of these allegations, each Kim and Seo’s reputations have taken a success. Seo, who’s up for a Best Actress award for her breakout role in It’s Okay To Not Be Okay at the prestigious upcoming Baeksang Awards, has been dropped from a number of of her endorsements, and was absent from her press convention for upcoming movie Recalled, slated to open in Korea subsequent week. In a giant blow to her profession, she has additionally been dropped from the Okay-drama Island.
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