MBC released the official trailer of its new drama “Weighlifting Fairy Kim Book-Joo,” showing a good and confident acting by actress Lee Sung Kyung and her co-star Nam Joo-Hyuk. The drama is prepared to replace "Shopping King Louis” that will end its final epsiode on Nov. 16
MBC has prepared the drama starring Lee and Nam that portray the life of a weighlifting athlete. The drama was loosely based on the real life female Korean four time world champion weightlifter Jang Mi-Ran. Prior to the airing, MBC released trailer of the drama on public showing the confidence of Lee as a weightlifter.
In order to prepare for the drama, Lee trained with national athletes in the Korean National Sport University facility. One of the co-stars, Yoo Joon-Hong, also published a series of his pictures outside the training gym, as reported by ET News. Yoo will play as one of the male weighlifters in the drama “Weighlifting Fairy Kim Book-Joo.”
The lead actor in the drama is the 22-year old actor Nam, who featured as well in “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo” as the 13th prince Baek-Ah. Nam will play a national swimmer Jung Joon-Hyung according to Han Gook Ilbo. Joon-Hyung is a swimmer with a very bright future in his swimming career, but his injury made him unable to fulfill his dream.
In order to immerse himself in the role of a swimmer, Nam also trained seriously in swimming. He must build his shoulder muscle to look exactly like a swimmer. Nam also admitted that he made a research about athletes who suffered from similar injuries to play the role of Joon-Hyung well.
“I had to train hard for swimming and conducted a lot of research about psychological aspect of athletes who suffered an injury,” Nam said. “I will do my best and work hard to make a good acting in the drama.”
In the drama, Joon-Hyung received support from weightlifter Bok-Ju. There is also a hint that they both will be involved in a relationship.
Watch the teaser trailer of the drama “Weightlifting Fairy Kim Book-Joo” from MBC Drama below:
