"Waiting for Gyeongdo" Park Seo-joon said, "I'm 20 years old, I'm an introvert, and I have a lot of emotions and affection, so I don't want to give it to you easily." [Interview 1]

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Actor Park Seo-joon personally expressed his feelings about the end of "Waiting for Gyeongdo."

Park Seo-joon met with Star News at an interview on JTBC's Friday-Saturday drama "Waiting for Gyeongdo" (script Yoo Young-ah, director Lim Hyun-wook) at a cafe in Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 15th.

"Waiting for Gyeongdo" is a romance in which Lee Kyung-do (Park Seo-joon) and Seo Ji-woo (Park Won-an), who broke up after two relationships, reunite as a reporter who reported an affair scandal and the wife of the scandal's main character. Director Lim Hyun-wook of "The People Like You," "King the Land" and writer Yoo Young-ah of "Your Wedding," "Thirteen, Nine," and "Sacred Divorce."

Park Seo-joon played the role of Lee Kyung-do, deputy director of the entertainment department of the Dongwoon Ilbo, who is a very ordinary and humane office worker but is more sincere than anyone else in front of love. Lee Kyung-do faced the excitement of the past, the pain, and the shaking of the present as she became involved with her first love through an unintended incident while living her daily life.

Won Ji-an plays Seo Ji-woo, the second daughter of Jarim Apparel, who is in the spotlight, and the first love of Lee Kyung-do, deputy director of the Dongwoon Ilbo Entertainment Department. Seo Ji-woo has a beautiful appearance and a bouncy and outspoken personality, which seems to live a life without being indifferent, but he has a pain in his male mother behind it.

-How do you feel about ending "Waiting for Gyeongdo"?

▶I wanted to do a work with a deep lingering feeling, but there were many things I felt while watching the show this time, and I think I expressed various love through "Hardness." I think it will remain in my mind for a long time.

-There were some likes and dislikes from viewers at the ending of "Waiting for Gyeongdo." There is an evaluation that the death of a senior was used as a means of reuniting the main characters.

▶Isn't this too sudden from the perspective of the viewer. I don't think death comes with a notice. Through that, I think it gave me a message that I value my precious person and should not miss now. It was also a meaningful situation.

-I did a romance work after a long time.

▶I haven't thought about it in a long time, but now I tend to choose my work based on my age and mental state. The reason I chose "Waiting for Gyeongdo" was because I wondered if it was possible if it wasn't now. It was good to recall a lot of me from the past.

-Wasn't it burdensome to express the past.

▶I also have my own motives. When we meet, we always stay up all night.(Laughs) I met him the day before yesterday, and when I meet my friends, I remember those days a lot. It was okay to express it, but I was worried about that part because there was an age difference from the other actor on the outside. I cared about language and styling.

-The hardness showed a very static style, but didn't you think it was different from the style of actual reporters.

▶I wanted it to feel conservative, and I tried to make the fit look stunned. I wanted to show that Gyeong-do is not a person who cares about clothes.

-How did you prepare for the reporter role.

▶The director was a reporter, so I heard a lot about him. Some reporters say that even the boss doesn't add a 'nim'. I liked our Dongwoon Ilbo set, and I thought the feeling of space was important when acting.

-How did you understand and act on Gyeong-do.

▶Kyungdo is a delicate and friendly person. I thought I was a person who had pride in my day job and lived hard thinking about others. I think the part that knows how to say 'no' is especially similar. Also, I think I'm as emotional as Gyeong-do. I thought it was very delicate when I looked at Gyeong-do's lines. When we talk about a topic, it's not just "It's hard," but it's solved and said. I don't miss the words that I spill like Gyeong-do, and I'm trying not to get attached too easily because I have a lot of affection.

-What kind of student was Park Seo-joon in his 20s.

▶It was similar to Gyeongdo. Now I speak because I have social skills, but I'm an introvert, so it was worse when I was 20. Don't you first learn social life through college when you are 20 years old. I think I had a strange experience while meeting friends from all over the country.

-While filming this work, he said, "I think I've grown from expressing emotions." In what way do you feel like you've grown up.

▶There was a lot of emotion. When I filmed a drama before, a male actor had about three emotional scenes. There was a lot this time. Previously, when I was dealing with an emotional scene, I focused as much as I could, but if I thought, "I should endure it well," this time, I have an emotional scene, so it's very difficult when I film such a scene, and when I go home, I feel empty. In that case, I learned how to fill it well. I thought I wasn't consuming emotions, I was consuming them. I thought I should fill my feelings well that I could consume again. So I listened to a lot of sad songs. In the past, it was very burdensome a day before the emotional scene, but now I can easily take it. The reason why I love acting is that when I do action, everyone doesn't focus on this situation. That's because the air changes then and I feel like I'm in a different world. It's especially maximized in the emotional scene. In that sense, I gained a lot of confidence. I listened to a lot of ballad singers this time, but I listened to a lot of songs by Sung Si-kyung, Roy Kim, and Jung Seung-hwan.

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