Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara are together again, this time as a married couple in the spy comedy drama “Family: The Unbreakable Bond” on Disney+. The cast and director of the K-drama talked about what to look forward to in the series. Main leads Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara also dished on their chemistry after years of working together.
“Family: The Unbreakable Bond” revolves around Kwon Do-hoon (Jang Hyuk), a family man who lives a double life as a spy for the National Intelligence Service (NIS). His wife Kang Yoo-ra (Jang Nara) is unaware of his real job and conflicts ensue because of this.
PD Jang Jeong-do talks about the central theme of the drama. “‘Family: The Unbreakable Bond’ is about a family and it’s also about trust for people that are around you. When they discover new things about them, what will they do and how will they sacrifice for one another?”
Together again
Having a family as the center of the story, the series needed a perfect pair to portray the chemistry of a married couple. Enter Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara who have worked together in three projects prior to this drama. They first worked together in the 2002 K-drama “Bright Girl.” They reunited in the series “You Are My Destiny” and were last seen together in the TV movie “Old Goodbye” in 2014.
“I saw Nara in her 20s, in her 30s and I’m seeing her now. I feel like we ripened together. We matured together. She got even better. We felt so at ease with each other,” says Jang Hyuk.
Jang Nara describes how they rely on each other on set. “Whenever we are on a show together, it’s not like we talk a lot on the set but even if we don’t talk, we know what each other is going to do. And when I miss something, he helps me out. So I feel like we were siblings in our past life.”
Jang Hyuk noted how they have worked together in different projects where their roles are in different life stages, as a couple then and now as parents in “Family: The Unbreakable Bond.” Like their characters, both actors are now married. This is Jang Nara’s first series after getting married in 2022.
The series also stars Chae Jung-an as Oh Cheon-ryeon, Do-hoon’s boss at the NIS and Kim Nam-hee as Jo Tae-koo, a person who will shake the peaceful lives of the main leads.
“Family: The Unbreakable Bond” will be streaming soon on Disney+.