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"The most important thing that the director emphasized to Jun-seo was that he should never be cool." I was confident in that part.(Laughs) Even in the outfit, Junseo doesn't have her own style and thought she would just wear it as she is. It looked like Junseo was immature and had no idea where he was going to bounce without refining."
Seo Jun-seo, played by actor Lee Si-woo in JTBC's Friday drama "Love Me" (directed by Cho Young-min, scripted by Park Eun-young, and Park Hee-kwon), reminded me of the raw appearance of ordinary college students, male and female.
Like Baek Se-hee's essay, "I want to die, but I want to eat tteokbokki," the family's honest change of emotion, including Jun-seo, was a message that penetrated "Love Me."
"Love Me" depicts a story of a slightly selfish, perhaps more ordinary family growing up starting their own love. "Love Me" is based on the original Swedish series of the same name created by Josephine Bornebusch, starring Lee Si-woo, Seo Hyun-jin, Yoo Jae-myung, Yoon Se-ah, Jang Ryul and TWICE Dahyun.
In the play, Lee Si-woo plays Seo Jun-seo, the younger brother of Joon-kyung (Seo Hyun-jin). I feel sorry for my dad, who sacrifices for his family, but I don't want to take responsibility, so I go to graduate school with my sister's help, but I'm an immature child drunk on romance with my girlfriend.
Seo Jun-seo is a younger brother character who is familiar to siblings and is a graduate student who is not sure about the future yet. When he encounters Seo Jun-kyung, who has one older sister, he is busy snarling and finding fault with each other. My undergraduate degree majored in astronomy, but my graduate school went to the Department of Cultural Convergence and asked Seo Jun-kyung, "What do you want to do as a doctor? "You're reversing your career path," he says, but responds, "You think you're the best in the universe, right?"
Seo Jun-seo is late for class because she spends time with Yoon-sol (Kim Shana), who appears as her girlfriend at the beginning of the play, and she screams because she doesn't like Yoon-sol wearing a short skirt. She also has a hard time with DAHYUN of TWICE who plays Ji Hye-on, her best friend in the middle, and she has an awkward relationship with her impulsive kiss. Lee Si-woo realistically depicted a clumsy 20-something who could not control his feelings of love by himself.
Lee Si-woo, a native of Han Ye-jong, drew attention for his role as Yoon Min-jae in the original Genie TV "Paper Moon." Since then, in the Coupang Play series "Boy's Generation," he has shown solid acting and excellent character digestibility through Asan white tiger "Jeong Kyung-tae," who conquered the school with one fist, and tvN's "Love on a Single Tree Bridge."
-How do you feel about ending "Love Me"?
▶Thank you for watching "Love Me" at a precious time at the beginning of the cold year. I would appreciate it if viewers could remember it as a good work.
-Personally, how did the ending of "Love Me" come to you.
▶After Jun-seo and Hye-on had a big conflict in Part 11, Jun-seo looks back on herself, and I'm glad it went well with Hye-on again.
-What made you decide to appear on "Love Me" after receiving the script for the first time?
▶The script "Love Me" was more everyday than fantasy, so it was attractive. I was also waiting for an everyday and deficient character like Junseo.
-What do you think viewers particularly loved about "Love Me".
▶ It depicts a stark reality that resembles our lives and is difficult to see unless it is a drama. I really sympathized with the ending of the second part of the narration, "My loneliness is more important than my terrible sadness." Even though Junseo's mind is complicated after a big fight with his family, it seems that it was also realistic to see what his girlfriend was doing on social media. The scene was a funny scene.
-If you explain the similarities and incomprehension between Jun-seo and actor Lee Si-woo?
▶There were many characteristic similarities. Doesn't everyone have a bit of a geek and clunky part. Such parts were similar, but there were many things that were difficult to sympathize with in the situation. I tried to imagine as much as I could because I had never experienced a reaction when Sol said, "I slept with Bum-joon," or a situation where my father had a girlfriend.
-There was also a viewer's response that he did not understand "Love Me" because he drew nive love.
▶There were also many different reactions as to whether the sister-in-law could be so angry. When the father said he was selling the house, the son's reaction was also divided into "I don't understand" and "I don't understand." These seem to be so natural responses. Our lives are not always logical, are they. I wondered, "How can he do that?" and there seemed to be more cases than dramas. Since the lives of viewers will be different, the characters that each person sympathizes with will be different.
-Jun-seo became a lover with Hye-on, a "girl friend," and actor Lee Si-woo thinks that men and women have lifelong friends.
▶It seems difficult for a man and a woman to be friends for life. I think you need a proper distance to be friends. In my case, I think I only have acquaintances who I know while running.
-Junseo showed a lot of scenes like Seo Hyun-jin and "real brother and sister" in the play. How do you feel about meeting actor Seo Hyun-jin as a brother and sister?
▶It was an interesting point. I was also told that he looked like Hyunjin. The senior played well how Jun-seo and Jun-kyung scratch each other, so I was able to respond with fun.
-Actor Lee Si-woo actually had a younger brother, and what kind of brother he was. What kind of relationship would it be if you had an older sister or sister.
▶When I was a student, my younger brother and I had a lot of physical differences, so I played a lot of pranks, but after becoming an adult, we became friends and shared a lot of worries. If I had a sister, I would be so pretty, and if I had a sister like Junkyung, I would bicker. (laughs)
-Is there anything you want to say to Jun Seo?
▶I don't think it's because he's at the bottom. I think my body and mind played separately, and I wandered because I didn't know what to do. I think I've had a hard time and now I hope I can settle down and live a stable life.
-You met singer Dahyun of TWICE as an actor. How was your acting.
▶ Hye-on and Jun-seo were childhood friends for 20 years, so they were different from other romance. It was homework because we had to be comfortable with each other from the beginning of the drama. My sister said that we should talk comfortably first, but she became comfortable, and I tried acting anew. I tried to comfortably pull out tissues and throw them when I ate in the drama, and to show them opening the refrigerator comfortably when I went home. The name "TWICE" is too big, but since I met him as "Love Me," I didn't see him as an "idol-turned-actor" but as a character. There were many surprising moments, but my sister's eyes were so good when she acted, and she seemed to have no fear of challenging herself. I prepared a lot of activities, so I was able to enjoy filming.
-How did you feel about your acting with Yoo Jae-myung.
▶The scene where Yoo Jae-myung, Jang Hye-jin, Seo Hyun-jin, and those four family members fight was the first shooting. I was nervous and filmed, but I was excited in a good way during rehearsals. Yoo Jae-myung stopped rehearsing in the raw part and said, "Let's stop here and go in," but it was very fun to act in an unpredictable state. After the scene, Seo Hyun-jin and Jang Hye-jin also said, "It was so much fun." It was good that you threw a new stimulus.
-He is a native of Han Ye-jong, and made his debut in 2017 and became an actor for 10 years. Acting started when I was 17 years old at my aunt's recommendation.
▶At first, my aunt asked me to act, and I enrolled in an acting academy, and I became interested in acting. I became more interested when I went to college and took classes. Everyone was full of passion for acting. At that time, I was also most curious about acting. When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be an entomologist. I saw a lot of books such as Favre and many insects such as long-horned beetles in the mountain behind the neighborhood.
-The process of joining the agency in earnest was when I was 19 years old when I was a third grader in high school, and I was cast on the street by a JYP Entertainment official.
When I went to take the ▶ University entrance examination, new development teams from various companies came. At that time, I also received a business card, auditioned, and entered the company.
-His real name is 'Lee Chan-sun', and he uses his younger brother's real name 'Lee Si-woo' as his stage name.
▶My younger brother said, 'If it goes well, give me your name.' It made me write my name easily in the beginning. Sometimes when my mom calls me "Big Siwoo," I ask her to call me by her real name (laughs)
-What kind of character or genre do you want to show in the future?
▶The acting I want to do varies from time to time, but I want to act like Jim Carrey from the past. I really want to try comedy and noir works like "Dum and Dummer", but I want to try acting that can be seen in our lives rather than cool characters. The genre that actors feel burdened about is comedy, and when they do well, they say it's good to be happy. Comedy seems to throw everything off and acts.
-I'm also curious about Lee Si-woo's life work.
▶ I enjoyed watching Na Hong-jin's "Yellow Sea" and Yoon Jong-bin's "Beasty Boys." Director Choi Dong-hoon's movie "The Thieves" was also very good. There were many interesting elements, such as the charm of the characters, the names of the characters, music, and the charm of the Hong Kong city.
-Like Hye-on as a person who confides his concerns to Jun-seo, is there a person who Lee Si-woo shares his concerns with?
▶I also talk a lot with my mom, dad, and younger brother, and I have a group chat with my local friends. I meet my friends once a week and go to a cafe and talk a lot.
-What is actor Lee Si-woo's hobby these days.
▶ I have been learning every day for about a year and a half. I write my own songs and play the piano. It's just that I know how to play the chords. Originally, I liked sports, but I fell in love with running while running with Sean. Now I run like I'm breathing. An actor's job always has to wait and there's anxiety, but it's running that makes me wait every day. When I was doing the drama "The Perfect Family," Yoon Se-ah said she had a relationship with Sean, so I ran with her.
-How did Sean feel when he met him on the running crew.
▶I think my life has changed a lot through the learning meeting. If we meet late, we meet at around 8 a.m. and work early. As we talked about exercise and faith while eating gimbap together, I think it makes me feel so healthy and think about many things.
-I've been on a vegetable diet for a year, and I heard that I'm doing running as a hobby. What changes have occurred in your body during a year of vegetable diet.
▶I'm totally vegan. I don't eat meat and fish thoroughly. It's been about a year and a half since I've been vegan with running. There are some people who don't fit veganism depending on their constitution, but many overseas athletes do it. The body also feels a positive change, but keeping it seems to be meaningful. I had no choice but to try the popular "Dubai Chewy Cookie" (Dubai chewy cookies) these days, but unless that's the case, I try to keep it as much as I can.
-How do you plan for future military enlistment or activity directions.
▶There are about two to three years left before entering the military. I think it's important when you go, but I also like group life, so I think military life will fit well.
-What's your next movie or plan for 2026?
▶There is no decision on the next film, but I want to say hello with a good work. I want it to be the same as last year, and I want to develop. I want to work hard as an actor and live honestly and healthy as a human being.
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