Last week’s episodes of
My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho featured two cameo appearances:
UEE and
Park Shin-hye, both from the Hong sisters’ previous drama,
You’re Beautiful.
This has people wondering who’ll be next, since the Hong sisters have
previously had fun with bringing back actors from their other dramas.
Well, the idol stars of
You’re Beautiful are planning to make appearances, starting with
Jang Geun-seok, then
Jung Yong-hwa. Their castmate
Lee Hong-ki agreed readily to the cameo, but because of his busy schedule, he’s currently trying to work out a time to shoot his part.
Furthermore, according to the production company CEO, the
You’re Beautiful cast isn’t the only source of cameo possibilities; they are preparing cameos from other stars as well.
Who wants to start making guesses? (Kang Ji-hwan? Han Ye-seul? Han Chae-young? JAE HEE?)
Ultimately, these cameos hardly make an impact on the current drama’s
storylines, but I suppose such is the nature of cameos, right? The fun
lies in the meta awareness of who these actors are and how they fit into
the Hong sisters’ world, and these are two writers who positively revel
in these fun extras. Sometimes they’ll reuse favorite actors but create
entirely new characters for them, while in other instances they’ll make
a cheeky nod to an earlier work.
For example: they loved Jang Geun-seok in
Hong Gil Dong and brought him back for
You’re Beautiful. They also coupled up Ahn Seok-hwan and Choi Ran twice, in
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang and then
My Girl. Choi Ran came back two more times, for
Hong Gil Dong and
You’re Beautiful.
On the other hand, sometimes they bring back existing characters,
even if the cameo details don’t quite fit with the original drama. For
instance, when Han Chae-young and Jae Hee cameo’d in
My Girl after playing a couple in
Chun-hyang, they used the same names, even though the cameo doesn’t fit all the facts of
Chun-hyang. And Mi-nyeo’s reappearance last week hardly fits her
You’re Beautiful character.
But I’m betting most of us don’t mind, since it’s enough to see these familiar faces again, yeah?
UEE in Episode 5; Park Shin-hye in Episode 6
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