Yoo Jae-myung: "As an actor, I live through my roles… I am carefully engraving every single one" [Interview ③]

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• Interview with Yoo Jae-myung, who plays Moon Ju-yeol in the film "CSAT, The Secret of Question Setting"

Actor Yoo Jae-myung noted that he is living well both as a person and as an actor while taking on numerous roles without rest.

On the afternoon of the 21st, Yoo Jae-myung held an interview for the film "CSAT, The Secret of Question Setting" (directed by Lee Yong-jae) at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and shared his thoughts on the work. "CSAT, The Secret of Question Setting" is a mission comedy about Mang Bo-ram, a Korean language teacher from a small provincial city who accidentally joins the question-setting headquarters, which is sealed off for 40 days to create questions for the "CSAT," a Level 2 national secret in South Korea. In his struggle to create "problem-free questions" with no typos or disputes, Yoo Jae-myung delivers a groundbreaking acting transformation as Moon Ju-yeol, the question-setting committee chairman who is oddly irritating yet impossible to hate.

The film depicts the process of creating questions for the College Scholastic Ability Test, the biggest concern in South Korea's education system, offering laughter through black comedy.

Yoo Jae-myung said that he has been taking on many roles "like an ox" since his appearance in "Reply 1988," adding, "Some people say I live like a pinwheel spinning without rest. I have no specific criteria for choosing roles. When I receive an offer to appear in a work, my first feeling is gratitude, so I tend to see the good points of the project first. For an actor, an acting offer is a kind of proposal. Therefore, I accept within the scope of what I can do," he revealed.

Yoo Jae-myung also confessed about the secret behind delivering changing performances for each work while taking on many roles, not merely as a "professional actor." Yoo Jae-myung said, "I did not know that I would live by working so hard on so many works. It feels like I gain something little by little through my works. Previously, I learned a lot from the work 'Love Me.' Through that project, I came to think about caregiving, bereavement, and nursing care," adding, "There is Yoo Jae-myung who lives his daily life, but as an actor, I am someone who lives time through works. I feel like I learn one thing at a time while working on projects. Rather than a secret, I believe it helped that I tried to carefully engrave, learn from, and take care of each work individually."

Meanwhile, "CSAT, The Secret of Question Setting" will be released in theaters on the 28th.

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