Will top idol star Suzy of miss A make a success with her movie?

miss A’s Suzy is in the limelight for her challenge as a movie star.

The smashing beauty appears in the movie Architecture 101 that is to be released on March 22 as Bae Suzy. The singer, who already made a big hit with a TV series, has now challenged to be a success as a movie star. Architecture 101 has a story in which a man and a woman take the same course—Architecture 101—in a university and, after 15 years later, they meet and fall in love. Suzy plays the role of a freshman and is reported to have done a good job with acting the role.

Suzy is said to be fresh as a movie star and reminds us of a memory with first love. Her debut in the movie industry seems to be promising, but we need to wait and see because, except Big Bang’s TOP, most of idols have rarely been successful with their screen work in the past few years.

It is true that, in the 2000s, loads of K- Pop top idol stars made their debut on screen as leads, but received harsh criticism. These days, they have a new strategy: They choose to take a supporting role rather than a lead role, because it has been said that idol star are not the key to assure the success of a movie.

There are mixed responses from the movie industry. Some dislike idols taking a main character because they think idols lack the ability and attitude as an actor or actress. Once there produced loads of movies targeted to fans of idols, which fueled the criticism against them.

Considering these situations, Suzy seems to have made a good decision. She appears on the screen as she is in real life without much change. She chose to show acting with natural look rather than acting with a complete changeover. If she makes a success with the movie, she will be remembered as a good example of “moviedol” (idol and movie star).

Meanwhile, a movie, starring the president of JYP, Park Jin Young, is to be released this summer and it seems to affect idol stars’ debut on screen.