Actors Lee Seong-min and Yum Hye-ran acknowledged Lee Byung-hun as a god of acting.
On the afternoon of the 1st, the KBS CoolFM show Loveable Day with Lee Geum-hee featured actors Lee Seong-min and Yum Hye-ran from the film No Other Choice.
No Other Choice tells the story of Mansu (Lee Byung-hun), an office worker who once felt his life was so complete that he had "achieved everything," who is suddenly fired and prepares his own war toward reemployment to protect his wife and two children and to keep the home he worked hard to obtain.
Lee Seong-min and Yum Hye-ran appear as a middle-aged married couple. Lee Seong-min plays Beom-mo, a man who was fired after 25 years at a paper company, and Yum Hye-ran plays Ara, an aspiring actress who fell in love with Beom-mo at first sight and married him.
Responding to a listener who said they actually work at a paper company and have three years until retirement, Lee Seong-min said, "When I watched the film I found parts of the character I could relate to. I thought about what it would be like if one day you suddenly couldn't do your job as an actor because of an accident, and I empathized with the character."
In No Other Choice, in addition to Lee Seong-min and Yum Hye-ran, prominent actors such as Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin and Park Hee-soon also appear. When asked whether the set felt competitive or celebratory, Lee Seong-min answered, "We didn't compete at all, and it wasn't a celebration; we each focused on our own acting. We intensely discussed how to structure each scene, but we didn't compete with one another."
Yum Hye-ran said of the actors' performances she saw on set, "What made this work so precious was watching the process. Until now I had only seen the directors' finished works, but seeing how those results came about made them seem even greater and more precious. It was an honor and a time that won't come again."
When asked who the god of acting they both acknowledged was, Yum Hye-ran said, "In this work it seems to be senior Lee Byung-hun. Being part of the process with him, I wondered how he could have so many ideas and how his imagination and ideas in his head could be expressed physically like that. It seems like his mind and body go together. I felt once again that he is remarkable."
Lee Seong-min added, "Watching the director, it seems like he is thinking about the film more than 95 percent of the time, and Byung-hun seems to think about his film more than 90 percent of the time in daily life. I think I do it about 60 percent," drawing laughter.
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