Actor Ahn Bo-hyun mentioned Lee Joo-been's original work sync rate, with whom he teamed up on Spring Fever.
On the 11th at a café located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Ahn Bo-hyun held a wrap-up interview for the tvN Monday-Tuesday drama Spring Fever.
Spring Fever is a work that captures a hot pink romance of spring that will melt the frozen hearts of teacher Yoon Bom (played by Lee Joo-been), who faces biting cold winds, and the man with a burning heart, Seon Jae-gyu (played by Ahn Bo-hyun), and Ahn Bo-hyun met viewers by taking on the role of Seon Jae-gyu in the drama.
Ahn Bo-hyun showed the passion of gaining even 5kg of muscle to portray Seon Jae-gyu's overwhelming physique from the original web novel on screen. Becoming Seon Jae-gyu from the outside in and creating a visual that seemed to break through the original, Ahn Bo-hyun drew praise from the very beginning of the drama as having a "200% sync rate." He gave plausibility to comic-book-like settings — moving a vehicle blocking a fire truck with his bare hands, sprinting at full speed to catch up over one subway stop, hoisting a bench — with the idea that such feats might be possible because of Ahn Bo-hyun's physicality.
Related to this, Ahn Bo-hyun said, "In the case of Seon Jae-gyu, although he is a character from a web novel, he wasn't born with a body of sculpted gym muscles and visible veins; he was born a brawler, with a rough, thick body that doesn't look conventionally handsome but looks powerful. To give that impression, I repeatedly bulked up and slimmed down. His face is chubby but the body matched the drawing style a bit. For this drama I gave up on the face and tried to give the physique a certain feel, so I carried dumbbells around and lived with chicken (breast)," he confessed.
How was the meeting with Lee Joo-been, who shared the romance with him? Ahn Bo-hyun said, "This was also my first time seeing her in this project. I was cast first, and Joo-been joined later, but when I looked at the character information and even just the web novel cover, the images of Seon Jae-gyu and Bom looked similar."
Ahn Bo-hyun recalled, "(Lee Joo-been) fit as an ethics teacher and also had similar protective instincts. I thought they were very similar, so the back-and-forth during the reading went well, and it blended on set. There were a lot of funny moments, and she's such a down-to-earth person that it was fun on set as well."
Ad-libs were particularly rampant on set. Ahn Bo-hyun said, "The director didn't cut often. Most of Jae-gyu's ad-libs were reflected, like 'take care of Tutu,' or saying the weather is so nice with 'nice weather,' the squat posture — most were ad-libs but the director liked them. When he asked if there was more, it was more fun than stressful. It was also the charm of the dialect, and it helped the character come alive."
Ahn Bo-hyun, who said the rough hairstyle also reflected the web novel cover, said, "Looking at other photos, it didn't look like that. I thought Jae-gyu being handsome wouldn't fit. I thought the roughness given by the hair worked." He added, "That hair took more than 40 minutes, and the cartoon-like feeling that hairstyle gave seems to contain Jae-gyu's temperament. It was fixed so well that I shampooed three times," sharing the behind-the-scenes.
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