Actress Lee Joo-been fills the emotional flow of the drama seamlessly with delicate internal acting.
In the fourth episode of tvN's Monday-Tuesday drama Spring Fever, which aired on the 13th, Yun Bom (Lee Joo-been) in the drama is shown repeatedly drawing lines and keeping her distance from Seon Jae-gyu (Ahn Bo-hyun). After remembering the help she had received, Bom expressed her gratitude but, as if sorting out her own feelings, tried to distance herself from Jae-gyu and cut off the relationship.
That day, when Jae-gyu asked, "What happened in Seoul?" Bom snapped back coldly, "Who do you think you are? Do you think we're even friends? We're not that kind of relationship," and turned away. Also, when Jae-gyu secretly helped her, she said, "Unwanted approaches are rude, and unwanted kindness is only painful," showing a coldness that sent him money as a fee instead of gratitude. In a calm tone with subtly trembling eyes, Lee Joo-been convincingly portrayed Yun Bom's complex feelings of guarding against approaching emotions and deliberately ignoring them.
This coldness stemmed from an incident she experienced in Seoul in the past. She suffered after being suspected of an affair with a parent and faced humiliation, and the wound of not even being believed by her family was deep. Lee Joo-been, conflicted between the instinct to be attracted to Jae-gyu and not wanting to be privately involved with the parent, chanted to herself, "Draw the line, Yun Bom," evoking sympathy.
The seemingly strong Bom even collapsed over a bowl of baeksuk. After tasting the baeksuk handed to her by Choi Yi-joon (Cha Seo Won), Bom burst into tears as her father's cooking came to mind. Loneliness and longing, which had not been comforted even by her closest family, erupted in front of the baeksuk that resembled "the taste of her father." With an ordinary dish, Lee Joo-been summoned the time Bom had endured and made the character's pain even clearer.
In this way, Lee Joo-been heightened immersion in the drama by portraying both the deliberate ignorance of approaching warmth and the pain accumulated beneath it with restrained acting. Whether Yun Bom will break down the wall she built around her heart and unfold a hot-pink romance adds to curiosity about future developments.
Meanwhile, the drama Spring Fever, starring Lee Joo-been, airs every Monday and Tuesday at 8:50 p.m. on tvN.
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