(Following interview 1) Actress Lee Chae-min revealed behind-the-scenes details of her eating-performance scenes in Bon Appetit, Your Majesty.
On the morning of the 30th at a café in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, a wrap-up interview with Lee Chae-min, the lead actor of the tvN weekend drama Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, was held.
Based on the popular web novel Yeonsangun-ui Syepeuro Salamnagi (Surviving as Yeonsangun's Chef), Bon Appetit, Your Majesty is a survival fantasy romantic comedy in which a chef who time-slips to the past at the height of his career meets the world's worst tyrant and a king with absolute taste. In the work, Lee Chae-min played the Joseon monarch, Yeonhui-gun Lee Heon.
That day Lee Chae-min said about the eating-performance scenes that drew attention for their flashy direction, "I watched a lot of animation. The production planned for the eating scenes to go in a cartoonish direction. I tried to reference many animation reactions. I watched other eating shows and tried to imitate them. I wondered how to eat prettily while showing it was delicious. Because there are viewers, you can't eat in a way that makes them uncomfortable. I thought it would be good to eat neatly, so I practiced a lot alone, looking in the mirror while thinking about various things."
He said he sometimes felt a reality check while doing the eating-performance scenes. "It was tasty when I ate it. It was delicious, but it wasn't the kind of taste that would make me go 'Wow!' or feel like I was flying, yet you have to express it and there are moments you have to overdo it. It's hard to find that balance because even if it's exaggerated, the character shouldn't be disliked and should look lovable, so I tried many approaches during filming. I tried exaggerating more, doing less, and after trying many times, that feeling didn't completely disappear," he confessed frankly.
When asked what food left the strongest impression during filming, he said, "I usually eat anything without being picky," but picked beef bourguignon as the most delicious. He said, "During filming I had to keep eating, so later there were times when I wouldn't chew and swallow. But the beef bourguignon was so tasty I swallowed it in gulps. Also, I don't really like sweets, but the macarons were so good that I took a few home after filming."
He said he gained weight because of this. With several shirt-off scenes appearing in the work, Lee Chae-min said, "I try to lose weight in a short time starting two days before a shirt-off scene. As an aside, the director told me before shooting that there would be several shirt-off scenes, so I asked for time, but when we actually filmed, there wasn't time so the schedule wasn't organized that way. I wondered what to do, and I worked hard, but I also had various help."
He continued, "It wasn't post-production; there was a lot of help on set. I exercised, but I also did abdominal workouts alone to look better, and if I felt it wouldn't be enough, I got a bit of help," adding, "Mostly my abs are mine. I usually exercise diligently, but because I kept eating, they were a bit less defined than usual. It's a little disappointing," he said frankly. (Continued in interview 3.)<
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