Lee Na-young opened up about her husband Won Bin's reaction to Honor.
On March 10, ENA's Monday-Tuesday drama Honor: Their Court closed a six-week run with a powerful finale. The series follows three female lawyers who confront a scandalous past that returns to haunt them in a tense mystery-thriller.
Lee, who plays celebrity attorney Yoon Ra-young—the public face of L&J, a firm that represents victims of sexual crimes—sat for a roundtable interview at a café in Seoul's Jongno district on March 11 and reflected on completing the project.
The finale delivered the show's highest ratings to date, posting 4.9% in the Seoul metropolitan area and 4.7% nationwide. \"I'm grateful,\" she said. \"The director warned us this would be a heavy story and that a female-led genre piece might be difficult to pull off, but more people than we expected connected with it and even cried with us.\"
She added, \"A friend I briefly ran into during filming later asked me, 'Were you actually shooting something that hard?' It was touching to hear people empathize.\" Asked about reactions from people around her, she laughed, \"I got so many messages I wondered whether people really watched the broadcast. I don't usually get that many.\" Fans kept nudging her for spoilers—asking if this or that would happen—but she told them she didn't know.
\"I felt really relieved,\" she said. \"Because it's a psychological thriller, viewers had to keep up. If everything were predictable, the tension would fall apart. I'm glad people stayed curious—that allowed us to maintain momentum.\"
When asked whether her husband, actor Won Bin, had any reaction, Lee said, \"When he read the early scripts he told me it would be tough. He thought many scenes would be hard for an actor to portray.\" They watched a few episodes together at first, she said, but later agreed to watch separately. \"I don't like hearing my own voice,\" she joked. She added that Won Bin even teased her, saying, \"So it goes like this, right?\" which made her laugh.
On whether Won Bin plans to return to acting, Lee said, \"He's watching. He still thinks about acting and wants to do it. When we watch good films together, we talk a lot about them.\"
Questions about Lee's next project persist. \"I don't have concrete plans for next year, nor a fixed idea of what kind of actor I want to be or what projects I must do,\" she said. \"I feel sorry for the long gaps between projects, but if a great script appears, I could start tomorrow. I'm simple that way—my hobby is watching great work and films, and I want to contribute that kind of work myself.\"
