Actor Kim Yoo-jung recalled memories of struggling with adolescence while working as a child actor.
On the 16th, a video titled "The broadcast of Yoo-jung, whom we all raised together since she was 4(?), and the story behind it" was uploaded to the "Yojung Jae-hyung" channel.
That day on "Yojung Jae-hyung," child actress Kim Yoo-jung appeared as a guest. Jae-hyung Jung said, "We all saw Yoo-jung grow up as the nation's younger sister, right? But we didn't see the side behind that. Although she was the lead in dramas that had ratings of 40 to 50%, what was it like? Everyone thought of her as so familiar and cute, so when adolescence hit, she must have been very irritated," he said, curious.
To this, Kim Yoo-jung explained, "Actually, now I realize I was like that back then, but at the time I didn't know. I just worked. Even when I was attending school, I went back and forth between school and sets, and I couldn't go out and see people's reactions. Back then SNS and things like that weren't as active as they are now. It was around 'The Moon Embracing the Sun' that I began to feel that a lot of attention was focused on me."
Jae-hyung Jung asked, "Wouldn't that have been adolescence then?" and Kim Yoo-jung candidly replied, "It started from then. It started then and continued until I became an adult. I was confused on my own."
Then Jae-hyung Jung said, "That makes sense. I also started activities at 20 and still had times when the standards were difficult. When you were very young, up to elementary school your parents made the choices, and after that the choice would have been yours," and Kim Yoo-jung explained, "That period is exactly when I made choices. During 'The Moon Embracing the Sun' I really wanted to do it, so I got it. The words in the synopsis and the descriptions were so good that I desperately said I wanted to do it and so I did."
She continued, "The time when adolescence hit me the hardest started when I was 16. I didn't know who I was. That's the stage, right? It's the time of finding one's identity," and Jae-hyung Jung empathized, "Right. It's becoming independent from parents. In terms of animals, it's the time to leave the nest."
Kim Yoo-jung said, "Right. It's a time to learn to be on your own," and Jae-hyung Jung offered advice from experience, "If you don't do that then, you'll do it once in your 40s or 50s. They say there's always one time. That's what they mean by a late bloom being scary."
Kim Yoo-jung recalled, "There was a time I didn't leave my room for a month. I lay alone with all the lights off and asked myself, 'Who am I?' I asked questions like 'Who am I?' and 'What kind of personality do I have?' At that time I took on very difficult characters. After 'The Moon Embracing the Sun.' I filmed the movie Secret with senior Seong Dong-il and simultaneously filmed the drama Angry Mom with senior Kim Hee-seon, and the characters were all somewhat like friends who experienced school violence together or characters who inherited a father's murderous tendencies."
He said, "Until then I wanted to try weighty characters too; as a young person I often thought that. And I thought, 'Is this really going to be a big problem for me? I'm just expressing it through acting.' Until then, when seniors said things like, 'The character became too assimilated to me and it was hard to get out of it,' I didn't understand. But going through that period and that age and doing those roles made me physically feel what that was. Then I reached the point of asking 'Who am I,'" he confessed.
Jae-hyung Jung empathized, "Usually if you debut early at around 20 you feel this around 30. But you brought that forward by 10 years. At 16 or 15, I also didn't know who I was and while searching for myself I got ambitious about work and wanted to try things, but then I had a breakdown," and Kim Yoo-jung joked, "Right. In any case it was an age where you were easily swept away by the surrounding environment. So you keep asking those philosophical questions. What are you trying to find at that age? You're still young even now," which drew laughter.
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