Go Kyung-pyo is desperate to stop Frankly Speaking
by tccolb
The promo train for JTBC’s Frankly Speaking has been chugging along at a busy pace, delivering new character posters and stills of our three leads: Go Kyung-pyo (D.P. 2), Kang Hanna (Red Heart), and Joo Jong-hyuk (Extraordinary Attorney Woo).
Set against the backdrop of the entertainment and media industry, Go Kyung-pyo plays our hero Song Ki-baek, a well-respected announcer aspiring to rise to the news anchor seat. For the last eight years, he’s been carefully curating his public image as a man of truth – which naturally requires taking some… creative liberties in how he presents himself. But Ki-baek’s career is at risk of termination when he’s suddenly afflicted with an actual inability to speak nothing but the truth, and our announcer admits in his poster’s tagline: “Truthfully, I want to lie.”
Enter Kang Hanna as variety show writer Ohn Woo-joo, who had been feeling like she lost her touch. However, 12 years of experience in her field is not something to snub at and when Woo-joo spots one of Ki-baek’s truth-spilling antics, her gut tells her that she’s hit the jackpot. It’s a timely discovery for Woo-joo and fingers-crossed that she’s right on the money because her faltering show is about to get axed if Ki-baek isn’t enough to turnaround the ratings.
Thankfully (?), Woo-joo’s ex-boyfriend Kim Jung-heon – played by Joo Jong-hyuk – knows a thing or two about being the underdog as a failed idol singer who later found success after winning second place in a trot audition show. Now a variety mainstay as the nation’s beloved son-in-law, Jung-heon hoped to get cast on Woo-joo’s show and rekindle their romance. But something tells me his plans are for naught.
On the production side, the rom-com has PD Jang Ji-yeon at the helm with scripts penned by Choi Kyung-sun. Slated to air in the Wednesday-Thursday slot, JTBC’s Frankly Speaking premieres on May 1 and will be released internationally on Netflix.
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