[Exclusive]Jang Dong-ju, "Hyun Woo-seok, driven to the edge of the cliff, shows his stark desire." [Interview 1]

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• SBS Friday-Saturday drama "I'm a Human from Today", actor Jang Dong-joo as Hyun Woo-seok had an exclusive interview

Actor Jang Dong-ju expressed his feelings about playing "Hyun Woo-seok," a character with a fluctuating inner mind.

Star News recently met with Jang Dong-joo, who played an active role in SBS's Friday-Saturday drama "I'm a Human from Today" (hereinafter referred to as "Oh In-gan") and conducted an exclusive interview somewhere in Gwanak-gu, Seoul.

Oh In-gan, which ended on the 28th of last month, is a drama about a fantasy romance between an MZ Gumiho who does not want to be a human and a left-handed man with excessive self-love, and Jang Dong-ju played Hyun Woo-seok, a promising soccer player from the youth national team, and worked with Kim Hye-yoon as Eun-ho and Romon as Kang Si-yeol.

Jang Dong-ju increased the immersion of the play by expressing the emotional drop of Hyun Woo-seok, whose fate was reversed with Kang Si-yeol through a moment of choice, through detailed emotional acting. He was also praised for convincingly embodying the emotional density of a person dealing with the fate, misfortune, and misfortune given to him.

When asked about his feelings at the end of the show, Jang Dong-ju said, "I feel good and sad. I think it is difficult for any actor to be satisfied with his or her acting. Still, I am grateful that I was able to finish the show well within the scheduled schedule, and I am surprised and grateful that many overseas fans watched it."

Hyun Woo-seok, played by Jung Dong-ju, is a character who gives tension to the play. Jang Dong-ju said of the character, "I had a conviction that Woo-seok should not be seen as a villain and a person who interferes with other characters. (To Hyun Woo-seok) I have a selfish side, but I thought Woo-seok was a person who could clearly reveal human instincts and desires," he said.

"There are times when everyone is driven to the edge of a cliff in their lives. In that case, I don't think there is anyone who can do it like an adult gentleman. He expressed his affection for the character, saying, "I analyzed it as a symbolic person who can express the weakest image of human beings and the military image that has no choice but to reveal their reality."

How did you feel about your first acting with Kim Hye-yoon and Romon. Jang Dong-ju said, "I'm a junior and younger brother, but I've seen and learned a lot. Personality is fundamental, not to mention. Both of them are really good in character. (Kim)Hye-yoon recited all the lines she prepared and practiced without getting a single miss of To. I also thought they were actors with a reason to be prolific," he said, praising Kim Hye-yoon and Romon.

Jang Dong-ju focused on understanding the character's feelings to show Hyun Woo-seok's fluctuating inner and emotional fall. In this regard, he said, "I thought we should move according to our most animal instincts," adding, "In real life, we have to consider human relationships and various situations, and there is a sense of disparity within them. First of all, Wooseok is a person who has a father who only looks at himself. While enjoying many things in a changed life, he cannot accept the fear that all of a sudden disappears, and furthermore, he goes through a time-limited life. I thought it would be difficult when I thought, 'If it were me, would it be acceptable?' I tried to understand Wooseok's feelings," he explained.

I'm 33 years old, and I've only been acting since I was young until I reached this age. Everything happened in my life. In such a situation, people go all the way to the end," he confessed about the background of understanding Hyun Woo-seok's inner side.

Jang Dong-ju convincingly depicted the emotions of the characters who were in the extreme through Hyun Woo-seok, who could not accept the reversed result of fate in the second half of the play. In the play, Hyun Woo-seok was diagnosed with heart cancer in exchange for changing his fate with Kang Si-yeol and was destined for six months.

In response, Jang Dong-ju said, "It's a scene where Woo-seok's emotional line is very prominent," adding, "I was happy that the scenes had high ratings." I can feel the audience's reaction directly," he said, expressing satisfaction.

"Just as a person has a different mind when he enters the bathroom and leaves, Wooseok tried to spit it out because he used it (the price of his changed fate). I felt again that I was a symbol of a weak human group. As an actor, acting that point was the key and difficult point. He said, "I tried to act so that viewers could feel like 'I'm sad' and 'I wish I were sick' because I shouldn't hate Wooseok."

He said, "The hospital scene was filmed for a really long time. The director made everyone else go out, talked again, and matched them again, and filmed them," he added.

(To be continued in the interview ②)

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