Actor Lee Soon-won is entertaining with a gangster performance that is 2% short of perfect.
Lee Soon-won is giving a passionate performance as gangster Geum Gang-sik, who seems like a power player at Heaven Capital but is actually timid and pitiable, in the MBC Friday-Saturday drama Fifties Professionals (planned by Kwon Seong-chang, directed by Han Dong-hwa, written by Jang Won-seop).
In the early part of the drama, Lee Soon-won appeared to raise tension with a rough expression and tone but exposed flaws and injected a pleasant energy.
Geum Gang-sik is the right-hand man and action leader of gang boss Yoo In-gu (played by Hyun Bong-sik) but in reality is someone who is pushed around and beaten down by Yoo In-gu's force. He is constantly mistreated but is a loyal, pure-hearted man who would do anything at Yoo In-gu's word.
Although Geum Gang-sik is a gangster, he is a character who evokes sympathy, and Lee Soon-won perfectly embodies the role with outstanding acting. He enriches emotions with subtle facial expressions and delivers lines with crisp timing. He truly shows a savory, satisfying performance.
The gangster Geum Gang-sik, who is 2% short, is completed through Lee Soon-won's acting. The terrifying Geum Gang-sik who controls Heaven Capital with a fierce expression and rough tone becomes a drooping cat with a pathetic look and droops only when standing in front of Yoo In-gu, a reversal that increases the drama's entertainment.
Moreover, even the moment he set out to find Bong Je-soon (Oh Jung-se), his cowardly act of hiding behind a door and watching the situation added humanity to the Geum Gang-sik character.
Lee Soon-won, who plays Geum Gang-sik, the central figure involved in all the incidents in Fifties Professionals, piques curiosity about what role he will play within the web of complex relationships in the drama. Furthermore, expectations are gathering for the image of Geum Gang-sik that Lee Soon-won will complete.
[Photo] MBC Fifties Professionals broadcast capture
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