Actor Kim Goeun explained why she became emotional and shed tears at the press conference.
On the morning of the 22nd, an interview with Kim Goeun, the lead actor of the Netflix original drama "You and Everything Else," was held at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno District, Seoul.
"You and Everything Else" is a story that faces all the moments of two friends, Eunjung (played by Kim Goeun) and Sangyeon (played by Park Ji-hyun), who at every moment like and admire each other the most, and also feel jealousy and hatred, becoming entangled over a lifetime.
Earlier, ahead of the work's release, at the "You and Everything Else" press conference held on the 5th of this month, Kim Goeun began to cry while saying, "I wanted to send her off well," as she explained Sangyeon asking Eunjung to accompany her for assisted death.
In the interview, when asked about the situation at the time and "what part made you cry," Kim Goeun cautiously opened up, saying, "I hope it will be written carefully. I haven't been able to sort it out well."
She said, "Actually, in 2023 I lost some of my closest friends. In a short time. Strangely, the works I filmed in 2023 were The Law of the Big City of Love and "You and Everything Else." It wasn't something I planned, but it was already set up that way. I thought a lot about The Law of the Big City of Love too, and it mainly tells stories about friendship in your 20s."
She continued, "I think 'You and Everything Else' is a work in which the left-behind Eunjung tells the story about Sangyeon. I read Sangyeon's diary and thought this story conveyed this child's life and my life well from that child's perspective. When I thought about how Eunjung's heart would have been following Switzerland in that final scene, it was 'I wanted to send her off well.' In a way, I thought it was an opportunity for Eunjung too."
Kim Goeun said, "We rarely have the chance to see off someone we truly love. Because it can be difficult to be at a deathbed, whether it is a grandmother or anyone else. But at the last moment you can tell them things you said while they were still in bed, you can add that they worked hard to go well, that they endured well, and I thought that might have been a good opportunity for Eunjung. Although Eunjung left behind would of course struggle, I also thought her emotional burden might have been somewhat reduced. When I recall that scene, those emotions seem to rise up," she said, expressing her emotion. (Interview continued in part 2.)
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