[Exclusive]"AAA 2025" Choi Daehoon's sincerity, "It can't be 'Mr. Hak' forever."" [★FULL Interview]

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• Interview with actor Choi Dae-hoon, the winner of the Scene Stiller Award in the 'AAA 2025' actor category

Actor Choi Dae-hoon expressed his feelings and thoughts on acting at "AAA 2025" with "I was completely deceived," which was a huge hit.

Choi Dae-hoon won the 'AAA Scene Stiller Award' at the '10th Anniversary Asian Artist Awards 2025 (hereinafter 'AAA 2025') held at Kaohsiung National Stadium on December 6 last year.

Choi Dae-hoon, who made his debut in the 2007 KBS drama "A Sudden Excitement Center," has demonstrated his irreplaceable presence by playing in a variety of works such as drama "Trigger," "Judge from Hell," "Three Works, the Enchanted," "The Thousand Won Lawyers," "Curtain Call," "Model Detective 2," "Do you like Brahms?" "Human Class," "Crash Landing on You," "Yukryong Narsha" and the movie "Jeon and Lan."

In particular, in the Netflix original series "I was completely deceived" released last year, he lived in his 30s to 60s as an injury path for 30 years, making viewers feel hateful and kind. The injury path drawn in this way caused a so-called "Mr. Hak" syndrome, and Choi Dae-hoon added another life character. As a result, he won the 'AAA Scene Stiller Award' at the 'AAA 2025' he attended for the first time, ending the busy year beautifully.

Choi Dae-hoon, who recently met at the Star News headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul, said about winning the "AAA Scene Stiller Award," "I've had an experience that I've never had before, and I'm very excited and grateful just to be invited, but I'm happy to win the award. "I was excited and couldn't believe that I was attending the award ceremony, which was so exciting that I wasn't even greedy for an award," he said.

Choi Dae-hoon said, "I am grateful to the director, the writer, and my colleagues who worked with me for allowing me to be invited to a good award ceremony. It's all down to him. It was an infinite honor to be given the opportunity to see hot and hard artists closely in 'AAA 2025' still lingering.

Choi Dae-hoon marked a new milestone through 'I was completely deceived'. In response, "AAA 2025" featured a valuable scene where Choi Dae-hoon, IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Um Ji-won, and Kang Yoo-seok gathered together, and they drew attention by enjoying the awards ceremony regardless of who came first.

Recalling the ceremony, Choi Dae-hoon said, "The conversation between the 'I was completely deceived' team was mainly ventriloquism," and added, "Everyone dressed up in great clothes, so it was different and happy and good." It was an honor to be able to win the award at the awards ceremony because the work went well, and at the wonderful stage of the awards ceremony abroad. I wonder how many more such wonderful moments I can meet in my life," he recalled.

Choi Dae-hoon added about the "cool moment" he mentioned. He said, "A senior told me one day, 'Good scripts, good moments may not happen a few times.' It means that there are some people who can't meet that moment at all. I'm so grateful that I met that difficult moment. In a way, it's hard to have even a buzzword. It's my first time getting a nickname since I was in high school. He explained, "I'm grateful that I can be nicknamed 'Mr. Hak'."

Even so, he said, "It's fate that I can't live as a 'Hak' forever," adding, "It's unfortunate that we have to show many people and lives, but shouldn't we let them go?" I said this to director Kim Won-seok, and he said, 'Why are you leaving me. You can keep it well and work hard on new things again,' he said. So I said, 'Yes, I have this,' and I feel energized.

"I think all actors will have similar concerns, but there is a great pressure to create a more advanced appearance. Still, I'm going to try to keep my hard work but put down some of the pressure. I thought about myself as a better actor, saying, "That way, I can faithfully perform the script, role, and function given in my appearance."

Choi Dae-hoon was also the center of attention in 'AAA 2025'. This is because the group Tours (TWS) presented the "Antal Challenge," which contains the point movements of the chorus of the song "OVERDRIVE." In response, Tours members who attended the awards ceremony also applauded Choi Dae-hoon generously.

Regarding the Angtal Challenge, Choi Dae-hoon said, "When will I experience that again in my life?" and added, "It was unfamiliar because I had no such experience, but I like to play around so much. I didn't want to cringe," he said coolly.

"AAA 2025" is a feast of the year, so shouldn't you be happy. On the other hand, it is questionable and surprising that my challenge became a hot topic. If I have such an opportunity in the future, I will have fun again," he said, showing a cool look.

Choi Dae-hoon, who had a busier and more fruitful 2025 than anyone else, is ready to run vigorously this year. It is expected to show more "hard work" than last year, as the next films such as SBS' new drama "Kim Jang-bu," Disney+ "The Empress of Re-marriage," Netflix series "Wonderfuls," and Netflix film "Tigo" have been booked one after another.

Choi Dae-hoon said, "I think I can give you fun as a warm person in 'Wonderfuls', and I will show comedy and paternal love in 'Director Kim'. I think I can show you some action that I haven't shown before. For your information, Jihyeop, who appears together, was in charge of Ganji. "The Empress of Re-marriage" was like a fairy tale to me. I made really interesting memories," he said, introducing his next works.

"I think it will be completed only with your love and interest," he said. "Last year was spectacular, so it would be a lie if I couldn't expect this year." We are working hard to take care of our health and do our best to make a year as good as last year," he said.

Choi Dae-hoon showed humility, saying, "I'm a person who doesn't want to get excited until the result comes out."

"I got a better performance than I expected last year," he said. My wife also waited a long time for the release of "I was completely deceived," but every time she did, I said, "Don't get excited." I don't think I should like it first. I'm trying to walk silently without shaking myself," he said.

When asked what he wanted to say to him, who is about to enter his 20th year of acting, Choi Dae-hoon replied, "I want to say 'I tried'," adding, "I'm grateful that I can choose what I like, and I've come so far without knowing that it's hard." In fact, there was definitely a difficult moment, but I didn't know that and enjoyed acting. I think I endured it well," he said.

"As everyone would, I don't think it's easy to do one thing for a long time. I want to say thank you to my sides who have prayed, blessed and wished me good luck. be grateful for their existence alone. Maybe I ate for nothing thanks to them. When I look back on the difficult moment, I think, 'If it's not that hard, aren't you going to eat too much?' and smiled.

He also said, "In the past, I didn't get excited by myself and suspected myself, but I'm not going to do that anymore. I don't ignore the celebration and I'm going to have a good moment with thanks. And if there are still colleagues who are having a hard time, I would like to carefully say, "I've had these moments, so I don't doubt that you'll meet them anytime soon," he said, giving his colleagues a heavy comfort.

Finally, Choi Dae-hoon said, "I will also not take the support and blessings of many people lightly and act hard as a power source. I will always be a person who knows how to be grateful," he said once again.

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