"Bangsa-nam" Kim Min said, "Park Ji-hoon, I'm trying to protect you on the spot.."I haven't decided on the name yet" [an interview with]

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Kim Min of "The Man Who Lives With the King" expressed her feelings about working with Park Ji-hoon.

Kim Min recently visited the Star News headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and said, "It's been about a week since it opened, and I'm grateful that it seems to be going viral, and I have a feeling of relief."

"The Man Who Lives with the King" is a movie about Cheongryeongpo in 1457, a chief who claimed to be exiled for the revival of the village, and a young predecessor who was expelled from the throne and exiled. He played the role of Taesan, the son of Chief Um Heung-do (Yoo Hae-jin), showing a character where intelligence and innocence coexist.

Kim Min will work with director Jang Hang-joon for the third time with "The Man Who Lives with the King" after his commercial film debut "Rebound" (2023) and "Everyone Waiting for Him" (2024) of "The Killers."

Before filming "The Man Who Lives With the King," he said, "I had a lot of script reading with director Jang Hang-joon," adding, "What I thought was important was tone. It was my first time in a historical drama, and it took a process of effort not to feel heterogeneous. I wanted to take a different tone of dialogue depending on the relationship or atmosphere," he said.

He also mentioned King Danjong's Lee Hong-wi (Park Ji-hoon) and Dokdaeshin. He said, "When I'm with the king, I can't talk like when I'm with the villagers. There had to be an example, and there had to be tension with the king who came to exile. While maintaining that tension, I tried not to lose my composure and focused on the goal of conveying my story, he said. "In the process, I think there was a part where I used a lower sound in front of the king and an upper sound when I was with the villagers."

Kim Min said he was aware of the importance of the god before filming. "After that scene, Lee Hong-wi starts to open up (to the villagers). I wondered how the people living in the countryside would have felt before bringing it up to the king. There must have been fear and tension, but I thought about the villagers more than I felt about the king, he said. "I thought a lot about how to convey that heart calmly without overdoing it."

Kim Min said, "Since Danjong is such a delicate and difficult role, I needed an immersive environment, and I understood that and tried to protect (Park) Ji-hoon in the field," adding, "But I felt it when I was promoting, but having a peer gives me a lot of strength." Even if you're far away, you can feel a sense of stability," he said.

"I saw Jihoon's eyes on the monitor at the scene, and I was so jealous. The energy was amazing, he said. "In the scene where we face each other, the director and the three of us shared various opinions and made it together."

Kim Min, who was born in January 1999, is a so-called "fast trainee," and said, "I am a 17th grader at Han Ye-jong (Korea National University of Arts), and almost all of my friends were born in 1998. My juniors who were born in 1999 call me an older brother, but it's hard to be friends with others born in 1999," he laughed.

When asked, "Did you organize your names with Park Ji-hoon, who was born in 1999?" he tilted his head, saying, "I almost call him Ji-hoon and I think he calls me brother." And he said, "I actually don't remember it very well. We talked naturally without calling names. When we meet at this stage greeting, we will organize it," he said with a smile.

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