(interview② continued) Actor Mu Jin-seong revealed behind-the-scenes details of his performance in Typhoon Family.
On the 3rd, at the OSEN office located in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, an interview was held with Mu Jin-seong, a lead actor of tvN's Typhoon Family.
Typhoon Family is a drama set in 1997 during the IMF crisis. It tells the story of the struggles and growth of novice company man Kang Tae-pung (Lee Jun-ho), who becomes the president of a trading company with no employees, no money and nothing to sell. Set in the late 1990s, about 30 years ago, and at the turning point in modern Korean history marked by the IMF, the series centers on a protagonist who goes from being a member of the
The character Pyo Hyun-jun, played by Mu Jin-seong, is someone who, from childhood, always felt overshadowed by Kang Tae-pung and believed his possessions were taken, harboring an inferiority complex that drives him to stop at nothing to bring Kang Tae-pung down.
Pyo Hyun-jun, whose cruel desires are born of revenge and twisted competitiveness and who also harbors a distorted love for his father, even shocked viewers by attempting to harm his on-screen father Pyo Bak-ho (Kim Sang-ho).
Regarding his portrayal of Pyo Hyun-jun, Mu Jin-seong said, I thought Hyun-jun's character was more villainous at first. Without explaining reasons. Just a villain. That was the initial setup. But I thought it would be better if he was a villain with causes. If he had to be a villain, it would be good if there were reasons. That way, when viewers watch the work, even though he is a villain, it would be better to elicit some sympathy. So I told the director and the writer that I wanted to portray him as a character starting from inferiority and a sense of entitlement, and we built the character that way.
Asked whether he had anticipated Pyo Hyun-jun's level of villainy, which included violence toward his father and acts on the scale of a main villain, Mu Jin-seong recalled, I had no idea. It was around the middle episodes when I found out. Especially regarding the episode in episode 14 where the conflict with his father reaches its peak, I was told about that scene. I was very surprised and worried. I prepared the most for it. Even before filming, the director, myself and senior actor Sang-ho talked about that scene for an hour.
He added, The final scene was really important. In the earlier scene, Hyun-jun tried to harm his father, right? In the later scene we had to explain as much as possible to viewers why Hyun-jun had no choice, and we had to express that through acting. It was a scene I agonized over.
Some viewers reacted with surprise to Pyo Hyun-jun's sudden violence toward his father. In response, Mu Jin-seong said, I think it was because people couldn't really anticipate it. The shock was so great that they reacted that way. He added cautiously, It was unfortunate that the backstory explaining why Hyun-jun would act that way wasn't revealed earlier in the series. Nevertheless, as an actor I had to make it believable, so I did my best and acted while thinking it through.
When asked how he imagined Hyun-jun's life afterward, Mu Jin-seong replied, I'm the kind of person who imagines those things. First, I couldn't predict how many years the prison sentence would be. But I think after his release Hyun-jun might have lived a new life. There's a line Tae-pung says to Hyun-jun that I'm nothing, Hyun-jun, and I think he might have felt something then. His feelings toward his father might be like that. And after his release he might have gone to the United States and be doing well.
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