Kim Soo-hyun (Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald)
Actor Kim Soo-hyun, 25, said he has attempted to elevate his acting a step further by taking the role of an elite North Korean spy named Won Ryu-hwan in the forthcoming film “Secretly Greatly.”
“Won is the character who has four different colors,” said Kim in an interview.
“They are the elite North Korean spy’s language, his professional South Korean, the disguised fool’s awkward talks, and his socialized language after getting used to the surroundings.”
Kim said he learned the North Korean accent from a defector, but learned the dim-witted man’s attitude from “Teletubbies.”
The actor also underwent grueling training sessions for a series of intensive action scenes. But what’s more burdensome than the physical challenge was the pressure he felt.
“It was big pressure for me to choose the next film after having received so much love from ‘Moon Embracing the Sun.’ I started to become a coward and was afraid of going outside,” Kim said.
“Then I realized something was wrong and realized that I was being overly conscious of other people and that nobody actually cares that much about me,” he said.
The movie, directed by Jang Cheol-soo, is set to be released nationwide on June 5.
Jin Eun-soo, Intern reporter
(janna924@heraldcorp.com)