Park Bo-young: "Even losing 1kg was hard... losing 3kg was difficult" [Interview ①]

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• Interview with Park Bo-young, who played Hee-ju in "Gold Land"

Actress Park Bo-young said she lost weight for the character in "Gold Land."

On the morning of the 28th, Park Bo-young held an interview with Disney+ "Gold Land" (directed by Kim Sung-hoon) at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, to discuss the work. "Gold Land" is a golden-hued survival thriller about "Hee-ju" (Park Bo-young), who obtains 150 billion won worth of gold bars from a smuggling organization and fights to monopolize the gold amidst a chaotic world of greed and betrayal.

Through "Gold Land," Park Bo-young took on her first crime genre role. Having received high praise for her deep performance in "Unknown Seoul," Park Bo-young presented a new side of herself in "Gold Land" that audiences had never seen before. Park Bo-young led "Gold Land" by densely portraying the complex inner world of "Kim Hee-ju," who gradually changes between desire and survival after obtaining the gold bars.

Park Bo-young even underwent weight loss to express the character's increasingly withered and emaciated state as she was pushed into extreme situations.

When asked about the most difficult part, Park Bo-young said, "The director said he wanted Hee-ju to look thinner the more she went backward, so I lost the most weight I have ever lost. The director also said he wanted her to lose facial fat, so I went on a diet, which left me without energy. I had no strength at all. There are many scenes in the latter part where Hee-ju struggles a lot, and I think that actually helped." She added, "I would wait without energy every time, and when the shot was taken, I acted out a scene where my strength faded. Since it was physically so exhausting, I secretly ate snacks behind the director's back and ate snacks hidden by the staff to gather strength."

Park Bo-young revealed, "I lost about 2 to 3 kg while filming 'Gold Land.' I find it hard to even lose 1 kg, so losing that much was very difficult."

Continuing, Park Bo-young said, "The final scene at the gold shop was also very difficult. The gun was much heavier than I expected. Since I had to portray being shot, there were many restrictions, and I had to focus on emotions, but there were many other things I had to pay attention to." She added, "The weight of each gold bar in the drama was about 7 to 8 kg."

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