Actors Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin Park will collaborate with filmmaker Chan-wook for the upcoming drama, Can't Help It, as reported by Naver on August 12. The distributor, CJ ENM, reported that the cast lineup for the K-drama includes Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won, and Yoo Yeon-seok.
Can't Help It is expected to begin filming on August 17. It is a thriller drama that tells the tale of a worker at a corporation who gets abruptly fired and searches for work to retain his house and safeguard his family.
Can't Help It : Plot and Characters
In Can't Help It, the main character Man-soo is portrayed by Lee Byung-hun. He is fired from the corporation where he has worked for the past 25 years. He is a man who is pushed by his father's desperation and his own lunacy to find a new profession.
Meanwhile, Son Ye-jin plays Mi-ri, Man-soo's spouse. She has a lively personality and a multitude of talents. As she takes the initiative for her family in spite of her husband's unemployment, she reveals a new and different side of herself.
Another character in Can't Help It is Choi Seon-chul, the foreman of a paper firm, which is essayed by Park Hee-soon. Meanwhile, actor Gu Beom-mo steps into the role of a seasoned worker in the paper sector who turns to job hunting. Yeom Hye-ran is set to play Beom-mo's spouse.
Cha Seung-won joins the project as Go Si-jo, who is Man-su's other competitor. Yoo Yeon-seok is selected to play Oh Jin-ho, a dentist at Mi-ri's workplace.
More about the cast
Actor Lee Byung-hun has garnered accolades for his work in a variety of genres. Some of his notable works include Joint Security Area, A Bittersweet Life, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, I Saw the Devil, Masquerade, and the television series Iris and Mr. Sunshine.
He bagged the Best Actor award for Inside Men at the three most important South Korean award ceremonies - the 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards, the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards, and the 53rd Grand Bell Awards. He made his Netflix debut as the Front Man in the survival drama Squid Game in September 2021 and received the Asian Film Excellence Award at the 15th Asian Film Awards.
On the other hand, actress Son Ye-jin catapulted to stardom with commercially successful projects such as A Moment to Remember (2004) and April Snow (2005).
Since then, she has received several honors and appeared in many well-known movies, such as The Pirates, My Wife Got Married, and The Last Princes. In addition, she has acted in popular television dramas including Crash Landing on You, Something in the Rain, and Alone in Love.