Jang Hang-jun, director of "The King's Warden," personally told anecdotes.
On Feb. 25, the tvN show You Quiz on the Block featured Yoo Ji-tae, who with "The King's Warden" became a 10-million-ticket actor 28 years after his debut.
That day Yoo Ji-tae said he found it hard to concentrate on acting because of Jang Hang-jun's lightheartedness. He said, "The director is a person with a very strong sense of humanity. You have to push the acting very seriously, but the director kept saying 'the living proof of Korean cinema Yoo Ji-tae,' and my concentration broke. I thought, 'I can't do this. I should stay a bit away,' so I stayed a little away from the director."
Later, director Jang Hang-jun appeared and said, "Thanks to you all I am having very good days. Jaeseok, hyung succeeded. Jaeseok," and added, "At that time I did that to Yoo Ji-tae and he got embarrassed. But I didn't know it broke his immersion. I should have told him, Ji-tae. Still, you played Han Myeong-hoe very well."
Yoo Ji-tae said, "(Director Jang Hang-jun) asked me to say something like this, so I'm saying it: he spent 50 million won of his own money to take the staff on a trip to Europe. I thought he really makes efforts to leave very good memories like that."
He continued, "He revised the script before the production contract was even signed. He asked me to emphasize this. Director Jang Hang-jun said, 'I fixed the script without even signing the contract.'"
Director Jang Hang-jun said, "I started writing the script thinking this film wouldn't get investment. Usually midcareer directors don't start work without a contract. I thought, let's assume this is a few months wasted, and wrote the script," and added, "I provided food, alcohol, lodging, and so on for the staff. If these are the anecdotes I want to emphasize, then they are anecdotes," as he told the stories himself.
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