The show may be titled Gentlemen of East 8th 东八区的先生们, but the recent scene of Hans Zhang Han accidentally pulling on co-star Wang Xiaochen’s bra strap to keep her from falling appears to be anything but gentlemanly according to Netizens.
The scene in question shows Xu Duo, played by Wang Xiaochen, spinning on her heel and slipping as she walked away. She would’ve fallen on her butt too had it not been for Tong Yu (Zhang Han) grabbing her bra strap at the back to pull her up. Some thought of the 2014 teen rom-com Hot Young Bloods where Joong-gil (Lee Jong-suk) accidentally pulled Sohee’s bra strap when he reached out for her. Perhaps the drama took inspiration from that scene to play up the show’s comedic factor. However Netizens just weren’t having it.
“Awkward” Hand Placements
Some have said that the angle of his hand is too unnatural and that it’s virtually impossible to pull someone up like this. In the clip, Zhang Han does some sort of a spin move to put himself in front of her. It kinda looks like he’s hugging her from the front then hoisting her up using the back strap of her bra. Others have said that the scene feels a little “too contrived”.
The scene was also criticised for being vulgar and pervy. Aside from playing the lead actor, Zhang Han is actually the producer and screen writer for the show. Folks are now wondering why in the world did he write that into the scene?
To make matters worse, yet another scene of the two having dinner together once again has viewer’s hackles up. Tong Yu appears to be sitting Xu Duo down onto his lap, but as he does so, his hand looks like it’s holding on to her boob, sparking talks of workplace sexual harassment once again.
At present, Gentlemen of East 8th currently has a score of 2.3 on Douban which is practically the lowest rating for any Cdrama this year! With a lot of chatter about workplace sexual harassment, I’m wondering if the show will even manage to come back from this.
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VicoSDL
WoW, seriously ?
They get all worked up just for that ?
carmen
jajajaj no han visto series americanas de otros paises esos no es nada jajajaja
Ltf
He’s such a creep, I don’t even know why he’s still “acting”, he’s literally have been playing the same character over and over again in the same drama. Rich dude with pouty lips “poor me we can’t be together” and that’s it.
H.a
Couldn’t agree more
avarachika
I saw the gif for both of those two scenes and lemme tell you. In present time, it is awkward to insert a scene like pulling a person up by the bra strap even if it is meant for a comedy scene unless this is one of those drama where it’s meant to cater towards idiotic, comedy, and pervy genre; he could have thought of something else, it’s like you question why his character has to grab onto the bra strap of all things?…Also, Idk why they didn’t just do another retake of the scene where he accidentally grabs onto her left boob?…
Babo
The fact that he screenwrote this lmao and hyped it up like it’s been in the works for 10 years just to come out with this agehsjskwlsla no wonder it flops. Not to mention his dirty past of hit and run and change his name ew
Carolyn Treadway
Give the movie and ZH a break. It looks more like an accident, if you don’t like him don’t watch his work, Geez