#actingdol

When he’s doing his acting activity, D.O., member of a top idol group EXO, goes with the name Doh Kyungsoo. One of the idols who receive recognition for their acting ability, as he received prizes such as last year Blue Dragon’s Awards ‘Best Newcomer’ and so on.

Rather than sticking to ‘Actors who are originally Idols’ label, we should focus on the acting skills and potentials of each actors. We asked for the acting-score of 6 acting-dols (Yoon Dojoon, Bona, Cha Eunwoo, Seohyun, Doh Kyungsoo, Dasom) who have been active as lead roles in recent dramas, or are due to take one in near time. The five critics who participated in this survey (Gong Hee-jung, Kim Gyo-suk, Kim Sun-young, Jung Deok-hyun, Ha Jae-geun) mostly made positive evaluation.

Towards Doh Kyungsoo who received an average 9.2 score, they poured in praises such as, “An example of the most prominent ‘acting-dol’ for recent time”, “Acting skill that overpowers (goes beyond) his boyish image”, etc.

comments:

1. [+505,  -13] Looking at Doh Kyungsoo’s filmography, the stories are about a hallucination, a psychopath, a student in a movie that talks about irregular workers, an island countryside boy, a visually impaired person, a DVD-room part timer, a college student that soon to be a rookie director, a soldier under suicide warning, a prince who lost his memory, a North Korean soldier... he built his acting experience while taking so many unusual roles, right. Putting fans-bias aside, experts and majority of the general public acknowledge his good acting.

2. [+368,  -18] Doh Kyungsoo-nim. Your voice are really nice~~

3. [+295,  -5] For Doh Kyungsoo, seems that the spectrum of his acting is really wide, though. That’s why, when he entered movie and drama landscape, he just appeared like the characters themselves, then people discover that those are actually played Doh Kyungsoo. This happens often. Especially, for movie ‘With God’ ㅋㅋㅋ I’d thought, where did they find the person who play the Custody Sergeant from.

4. [+193,  -3] Saw EXO D.O. in ‘With God’, and rewatched the movie again.

5. [+164,  -3] I guess it’s clear that Doh Kyungsoo settled his place as an actor.

6. [+51,  -5] Doh Kyungsoo, Im Siwan, Lee Joon, I truly acknowledge these three.

7. [+48,  -3] I’ve never had a problem with Doh Kyungsoo since I thought he was originally an actor from the start. He has the gaze of an actor... I think it’s rather cool to see being active as both actor and singer at the same time. I found that he’s also cool as the idol D.O. on the stage. Fighting!

8. [+41,  -1] Just by looking at the roles that he takes until now, it seems that Doh Kyungsoo is an actor with a wide-ranging spectrum. Whether the role is big, or small. Whether the character is nice, or evil. Seems that he wanted to try them all and steadily did a good job about it. That’s really so diverse of him.

9. [+31,  -2] Because actor Doh Kyungsoo is so good at acting, I’d even forgotten that he’s actually an idol ㅎㅎ His face is also handsome and likeable.

10. [+28,  -2] It’s truly amazing, though, that Doh Kyungsoo is also a freakingly good singer.

11. [+26,  -5] Woah, Doh Kyungsoo got 9.2 score, that’s excellent...

12. [+22,  -4] First, starting from his voice, Doh Kyungsoo is straight up an actor.

13. [+18,  -2] Doh Kyungsoo is tender, when you look at him. But if you take another look, he’s also strong. And that may be another reason that help him in widening his spectrum of acting roles. What’s more surprising is, all the characters were portrayed so well, that as if they had their own lives. Indeed the most prominet actors in recent time.

14. [+16,  -1] When he appeared in ‘It’s Okay, That’s Love’, I never once thought that he was an idol. His voice is the real deal.

15. [+15,  0] In SM, that are in drought of good actors, Doh Kyungsoo is the most talented one. On top of that, he’s also a popular member in EXO. He’s the lead vocal and he can do everything.

    > [+6,  0] He’s the main vocal ^^

[T/N : sobs, I’m glad someone corrected the commenter... seems that it was a nonfan who left comment and truly didn’t know Kyungsoo was a neglected main vocal, sobs]