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| ▲ These photos, provided by each agency, show (from the left) actress Kim Ji-eun and actor Yu Oh-seong. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- "They are lonely people chasing after their goals only.”
Actress Kim Ji-eun and actor Yu Oh-seong from a recently finished special series to celebrate MBC’s 60th anniversary “The Veil,” picked “loneliness” as their characters’ points during offline and online interviews.
The series is the story of an NIS (the National Intelligence Service) agent Han Ji-hyeok (Nam Koong-min) returning to dig out the betrayer who pushed him to hell.
Actress Kim played Ji-hyeok’s partner Yoo Je-yi, the youngest agent who joined the NIS to find her lost father and actor Yu played terrorist Baek Mo-sa who gathered up a dark force at the borders between China and North Korea.
While chasing after Baek Mo-sa who was at the back of everything, Je-yi discovers that he is her father. Watching until the end of the father and daughter’s fate is one of the fun points of the series.
“She had a deeper history than I thought and she had to keep Ji-hyeok safe which gave me the pressure. The toughest part was digging the truth of about her father. I wondered a lot whether Baek Mo-sa was really her father and about if he is, what should she do.”
When the story gets to the middle, Je-yi cannot suppress her emotions about Baek Mo-sa and explodes them but the cold-blooded terrorist shocks the viewers by not even blinking an eye and threatening his daughter’s life.
“Actually, Baek Mo-sa doesn’t have much thought about his daughter. He only seeks revenge, but if he suddenly gets confused at encountering his daughter, it wouldn’t make sense,” said Yu.
“I could complete the father and daughter relationship through Baek Mo-sa, thanks to Kim’s acting. In the scene where Je-yi pours out everything about her father, her acting seemed really great,” said Yu.
As Je-yi has a complicated history such as her relationship with terrorist Baek Mo-sa, Kim said she tried her best not to give a clear impression such as “Ji-hyeok’s side” or “the good guy.”
“I focused on making her look mysterious. But at the same time, I tried to make her seem like a truth-seeker not a revenge-seeker,” explained the actress.
“Although it doesn’t show much, Ji-hyeok and Je-yi are both lonely people. With no one beside them but their single goals, they unintentionally started counting on each other and interacting with each other,” said Kim about partnering with Nam in the series.
When asked about how Yu understood Baek Mo-sa, he answered “To put it in one word- loneliness. It was a spy drama but the series portrayed the people’s emotions and memories. Although Baek Mo-sa was the bad guy, I tried to make the watchers feel some pity on him in a way.”
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