Actor Park Jung-min's declaration of a break from acting should be banned forever.
In Yeon Sang-ho's film "Face," which opened on the 11th, Park Jung-min plays two roles: the young Im Young-kyu, born visually impaired but selling beautiful seals, and his son Im Dong-hwan. Like the film's title, he has been praised as if he swapped faces and is soaring in theaters.
Park Jung-min appeared on the tvN variety show "You Quiz on the Block" in June and, when asked, "I heard you announced a pause in acting?", he explained, "I said I would rest for just a year, but suddenly words like pause, retirement, sabbatical came out. Someone worried. They asked why. I said I took a short break."
He said about what prompted his decision to rest, "One day I was looking in the bathroom mirror and I had such a familiar expression. It was an expression that came from some movie, and it felt so sudden that I wondered if I had nothing left to give, and it made me feel strange."
Park Jung-min, who asked himself, "Why am I making expressions from movies even in daily life?", frankly said, "After steeling myself, I decided to start again, so I made up my mind."
Senior actor Hwang Jung-min, who heard this, opposed Park Jung-min's declaration of a break. Park Jung-min recalled, "(Hwang Jung-min) said, 'Don't rest, damn it.' Because he himself also has to rest. He said, 'If you rest, who will earn money for the company?,'" which drew laughter.
Like Hwang Jung-min, fans are also strongly sending Park Jung-min the message "Don't rest, damn it." That's because no other actor can be imagined in the dual role in "Face." Park Jung-min's acting, which perfectly portrayed the two-faced Im Young-kyu of the 1970s and the present-day Im Dong-hwan, is irreplaceable.
Audience members praised, "I liked Park Jung-min's two-faced performance," "Park Jung-min might even win an Oscar," "After tearing up the dual-role performance like this, Park Jung-min, what's a sabbatical… act like crazy," and "Park Jung-min is really insane. How does he keep renewing his best performance every time he acts?"
Meanwhile, "Face" is a film about Im Young-kyu, who is blind but has become a master in the seal-carving field, and his son Im Dong-hwan, who, living with him, uncovers the mystery of the mother's death that had been buried for 40 years.
[Photo] "Face"
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