Actor Lee Chung-ah interpreted the character Hwang Hyun-jin in "Honor."
On the afternoon of the 12th, at a cafe in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, a wrap-up interview with Lee Chung-ah, actor in the ENA Monday-Tuesday drama "Honor," was held. Lee Chung-ah played the role of lawyer Hwang Hyun-jin, who stood her ground in the face of crisis and confronted challenges head-on, making a strong impression with bold actions.
In particular, as he fought to the end to reveal the true nature of a vast evil, he played a key role that accelerated the flow of "Honor," captivating viewers and earning high praise.
That day Lee Chung-ah looked back on the role of Hwang Hyun-jin she played and confessed, "Rather, as a person, I want not to make mistakes, I don't want to be caught in any faults if possible, and I have some difficulty showing my emotions. If possible, as an actor my priority is to show the good aspects of the profession rather than showing people something unpleasant or bad, because that becomes more of a chain of harm over time. But while playing Hyun-jin this time, going through the process of fearing that my mistakes might be revealed, having a hard time, suffering, apologizing, I thought that this character is actually brave."
She said, "At first, when I acted I had the fear of 'Will viewers understand this character? Will they accept it?' but I realized that it's not about seasoning or cooking this to make her loved. The lesson Hyun-jin needs to give people is 'I'll take responsibility for this.'" She added, "So I was surprised. I thought, 'Oh, this is how someone reacts in this situation; it couldn't have been easy.' Even if someone curses, I decided to love them."
When told she was also the most realistic of the three friends, Lee Chung-ah explained, "Hyun-jin is the character who opens the door of the drama and sets its direction. Everything unfolds because of this person. The cases are buried, and Hyun-jin goes around kicking doors open to reveal hidden puzzles. She discovers connections from incidents she caused and asks about them, so she is the character who needs to knock on as many doors properly as possible to make people think 'She's crazy, what's going on' and come this far."
She continued, "Ra-young and Shin-jae are protective characters. Ra-young is the one who carries the drama to the end, and Shin-jae is a character inside the structure that leads to Connect, so I had to play with them fully and prod them to create many things to talk about. Thinking that way was scary," adding, "I thought time was insufficient, but the early episodes had so much. I had to do action and appear in big scenes. The director said not to think about 'why.' Instead of 'why Hyun-jin,' you should think 'how Hyun-jin.' That was a great help to me."
With two characters from the original work reborn as Hwang Hyun-jin in "Honor," Lee Chung-ah said, "In the original setting, Western culture and Eastern tones are different. When I read the original review I was surprised, thinking, 'Hyun-jin sleeps with an ex to extract information?' I thought that could be quite difficult. In the original, I felt each character was thoroughly selfish and flawed. They commit crimes to eliminate crime, and since it's clearly a foreign drama it would be seen that way, but in my direct acting the emotions are viewed differently because the audience beside me must empathize, so it's within an acceptable limit."
Asked whether the setting of having feelings for an ex was better than sleeping with an ex to extract information, Lee Chung-ah added, "It couldn't not be there. I wondered, 'Did they choose the best among those options?'"
Lee Chung-ah said she even wore her own clothes during filming to build the Hwang Hyun-jin character. She said, "The clothes I wore had to represent some layer of this person, so I sometimes wore good clothes to film, but this time I gave the team pants that I really wear comfortably. I wore the same pants several times paired with different tops, carried a Salomon backpack to work, and on some days went to work in sneakers," adding, "When imagining Hyun-jin, I set her up as someone who is more ready to pop out at any time than neat."
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