Earlier than Bridgerton, Sophie Baek Actor Yerin Ha Starred In A Quick-Lived Sci-Fi Video Recreation Adaptation – SlashFilm – The Imperial Wire Insider

Yerin Ha has gotten a fairly main profile enhance not too long ago due to her involvement in “Bridgerton” season 4 on Netflix. Within the hit present, Ha performs Sophie Baek, a tweaked model of Benedict Bridgerton’s love curiosity from Julia Quinn’s unique books. (There, the character is known as Sophia Maria Beckett.) And whereas Ha has been a working actor for a while, being on a collection this fashionable is of course going to assist carry any actor to a different degree. That mentioned, “Bridgerton” will not be the primary massive franchise that Ha has been concerned with. Relatively, she beforehand performed an element in a serious (albeit short-lived) online game TV present.

In 2022, Ha particularly grew to become a part of the core ensemble solid for the “Halo” TV collection, which is predicated on the uber-hit Microsoft online game property of the identical title. Sadly, Paramount+ canceled “Halo” after simply two seasons regardless of clearly having bigger ambitions for the venture. Ultimately, the sci-fi collection merely did not join with viewers as meant. Coupled with its excessive price ticket (with the present reportedly budgeted at greater than $10 million per episode in its first season alone), the maths simply did not math after a sure level.

“Halo” focuses on the epic Twenty sixth-century battle between humanity and an alien risk often called the Covenant, with Pablo Schreiber starring within the TV collection as Grasp Chief (the first protagonist from the unique video games). As for Ha, she portrays a personality by the title of Kwan Ha, who was invented particularly for the present and did not originate within the video games or the expanded “Halo” universe of novels, comedian books, and so forth.

Within the “Halo” TV present, Kwan Ha is the one daughter of Jin Ha, the chief of the rebels on the planet Madrigal, and finally ends up bonding with Grasp Chief amidst the battle with the Covenant. Suffice it to say, nevertheless Kwan Ha was additionally (sadly) removed from a beloved character amongst followers. “What’s the level of Kwan?” as one fashionable thread on the HaloStory subreddit reads, and there are various others like that throughout social media.

Thoughts you, this is not a knock towards Yerin Ha as an actor. For many individuals who watched the “Halo” TV present, the character Kwan merely felt superfluous. There was additionally the problem of her pulling focus from Grasp Chief and the weather that followers of the unique video games wished the collection to give attention to. Working example: “Halo” season 1, episode 7 put Grasp Chief on the backburner to focus on Kwan as a substitute, and the consequence was an episode with a mere 4.8/10 ranking on IMDb.

In reality, Kwan was simply a part of a a lot bigger downside that the present had from the very begin. The staff behind the “Halo” TV collection was battling expectations the entire method, from followers not wanting Grasp Chief to take his helmet off to requires a extra devoted tackle the story from the unique video games. In some ways, this present looks like a product of a bygone period when Hollywood actually had a tough time determining translate the interactive experiences of video video games to tv and movie.

Ha, for her half, has moved on properly. She’s since starred in “Dune: Prophecy” and “The Survivors,” along with her work on “Bridgerton.”

“Halo” is streaming now on Paramount+.