Actor Park Shin-yang explained why he left the screen and became a painter.
On the 23rd, a new video titled 'Actor Park Shin-yang, who could not get up for 10 years, what made him breathe again' was posted on the YouTube channel 'Sebasi lecture'.
That day Park Shin-yang said, "I have been painting for about 13 to 14 years. I had been working hard on shoots, but I hurt my back several times and had surgery, and I developed thyroid problems that left me completely unable to get up."
He continued, "In the past, when I heard about thyroid and hormones, I thought you could overcome that with willpower. After experiencing it myself, I felt really sorry that I had thought that. I realized it was so serious that I could not control my body on my own."
Park Shin-yang recalled, "It was really absurd. I should have gotten up, but more than 10 years passed in a state where I could not. I often thought tomorrow will be better, but I experienced my body not moving."
He said, "Then I realized I had some emotion. It was longing. I missed someone so intensely, so strongly that I became very curious and asked myself, 'Why do I have this feeling?' That longing began to overwhelm me. I missed a friend I had studied with in Russia, so I started painting," explaining what led him to pick up the brush.
After that, Park Shin-yang began serious painting work. He said, "That day I painted several paintings and stayed up all night from that day; three years passed, then five, seven, and I stayed up nights for 10 years. Then I collapsed again. Paint and paint thinner are toxic, so I should have kept the door open, but I didn't, and I collapsed."
Meanwhile, Park Shin-yang has had no follow-up projects since the film 'Sah-eul' was released in 2024. However, 'Sah-eul' was also filmed in 2020 and released in 2024, so his acting hiatus has already exceeded six years. Park Shin-yang clearly drew a line on retirement from acting.
Park Shin-yang will hold a solo exhibition, 'Park Shin-yang: the fourth wall,' at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts gallery starting March 6.
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