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With curly hair and dialect.."I was really desperate" [★FULL Interview] [Made in Korea]

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Actor Seo Eun-soo of the Disney Plus drama "Made in Korea" is posing for an interview held on the 19th. /photo courtesy of Walt Disney Company Korea/2026.01.1 / Photo = Kim Hwi-sun hwijpg@
Actor Seo Eun-soo of the Disney Plus drama "Made in Korea" is posing for an interview held on the 19th. /photo courtesy of Walt Disney Company Korea/2026.01.1 / Photo = Kim Hwi-sun hwijpg@

Actor Seo Eun-soo wrote a new character in the 1970s as a female investigator for a drug investigation team of the prosecution office full of men. Seo Eun-soo, who pursues drug offenders with curly hair and dialect, showed a new appearance.

Seo Eun-soo conducted an interview on Disney+'s "Made in Korea" at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 19th. Disney+ "Made in Korea" is a story about "Baek Ki-tae" (played by Hyun Bin), a man who tries to reach the peak of wealth and power using South Korea and the country, where confusion and leap coexisted in the 1970s, and "Jang Geon-young" (played by Jung Woo-sung), a prosecutor who traces him to the edge of the cliff with a scary tenacity, facing huge events throughout the times.

"Made in Korea" was well received in the 1970s, drawing stories of great characters in the background of Korea's history. Seo Eun-soo acted as Oh Ye-jin, an investigator belonging to the prosecutor's office of the Busan District Prosecutors' Office.

In this work, Seo Eun-soo caught the eye by acting in a strong dialect. Even when there were restrictions on women at the time, he actively investigated and revitalized the play.

Seo Eun-soo said, "It was a work I really wanted to participate in, but I'm happy that season 1 ended well. From the first time I read the script, I was very hot and greedy because it was a dialect role. I really wanted to participate in this role. I think it was probably the most desperate work I've done since my debut, he said. "I wanted to do it so badly that when I first went to meet director Woo Min-ho, I wrote an interpretation of Oh Ye-jin's character full of A4 paper and took the paper with me. I wanted to tell the director that I was preparing hard," he said.

Seo Eun-soo / Photo = 'Made in Korea'
Seo Eun-soo / Photo = 'Made in Korea'

Seo Eun-soo, who appears with unconventional curly hair in the play, said, "At first, when I was cast and talked to the makeup team, I asked about long straight hair because I was a new investigator. Director Woo Min-ho sent me a picture after thinking about it, and he showed me a picture with a hippie perm and said, "This is Oh Ye-jin." At that time, I was worried that this hair would look good on me, but the director said, 'Trust me!' I trusted the director and had curly hair, but the hairstyle gave me a feeling. When I had curly hair, it felt like I changed into Yejin," he recalled.

Seo Eun-soo said, "I'm from Busan, I'm from Busan." I usually have a strong dialect. I spend a lot of time with my family, but my family has a strong dialect, so I naturally use it. Then, when I was acting, I spoke in Seoul," he said. "While filming, I comfortably acted in dialect. I did it by changing the dialect of the script to my own words. However, because it was set in the 1970s at that time, the dialect of that time and the dialect of today were a little different. The dialect in the work was the way my grandmother spoke. So I talked a lot with my grandmother and grabbed the dialect," he explained.

Seo Eun-soo, who has been active in various works, is imprinted on the public with his innocent image. Seo Eun-soo, who showed a new appearance in the movie "Witch" Part 2, showed a cheerful and tough appearance that is different from the work she has shown so far. Seo Eun-soo said, "Oh Ye-jin's role in this work was the hottest character I've ever played. I was attracted from the beginning at that point, he said. "Even though I could see the hard work, I kept throwing myself into the heat even though I knew it. It was like a flapping live fish, and it was different from before that it was a character that even a fire pit entered. So I thought that this scene itself was a place of learning for me. I have grown a lot as an actor by learning a lot from various actors and director Woo Min-ho," he said.

When asked about her favorite scene in "Made in Korea," Seo Eun-soo said, "I like episode 2 the most because I came out a lot in episode 2. The most memorable scene was the arrest of drug offender Kang Dae-il (played by Kang Gil-woo) in the play. While filming at that time, the ad-lib came out differently from the script. The part where I got in the car and caught Kang Dae-il was all ad-libbed. When filming the scene of getting out of the car and climbing the mountain path, director Woo Min-ho said, "I hope my eyes turn around and run like Usain Bolt." As Ye-jin, I was so immersed that I sprinted. After the shooting, my legs were shaking. It was a moment when I really felt immersed. I wanted to show it that much more fun and lively."

Seo Eun-soo also talked about his relationship with Jung Woo-sung and Hyun Bin. Seo Eun-soo said, "There are a lot of scenes with Jung Woo-sung and senior, and it was an honor to breathe together. Every time, I did not go according to the script, but rehearsed in advance, thinking and trying to enrich it. Ye-jin also told me a lot about how to look more attractive, he said. "Hyun-bin was really cool on the set, too. Whenever I saw you, I called you 'Tom Hardy' a Hollywood actor. Jung Woo-sung was like Alain DeLong."

Finally, Seo Eun-soo said, "Oh Ye-jin is a character who survived a drug class full of men in that era in the 1970s, so I tried to express it edgyly. It was good to show a woman named Oh Ye-jin acting as an investigator while working as an oddball and coffee in a drug class, and I grew up together. In Season 2, we will show you a better growth," he added.

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