Actor Jang Hyun-sung revealed behind-the-scenes stories related to the film The King's Warden, which surpassed 15 million viewers, on Kim Ju-ha's Day & Night.
On the 18th episode of MBN's Kim Ju-ha's Day & Night (shortened to Day & Night), which aired on the 28th, Jang Hyun-sung and Jang Young-nam proved a wide talk spectrum by heating up living rooms with behind-the-scenes stories of appearing in the 15 million-viewer The King's Warden (shortened to The King's Warden) and memories with Park Bo Gum, Park Boyoung and Hwang Jung-min.
Currently appearing together in the play "The French Safe," Jang Hyun-sung and Jang Young-nam, who are senior and junior from the theater department at Seoul Institute of the Arts, shared school days stories that piqued interest. In particular, Jang Hyun-sung said he has been close friends with director Jang Jin for 30 years and revealed that he thought this work had to be done together because Shin Goo was involved, explaining how he came to appear in "The French Safe." Jang Young-nam also confessed that "Senior Shin Goo is my tear button," saying she had often reflected and cried watching Shin Goo's passion, which moved listeners.
Jang Hyun-sung then said, "We spent a long time together in rough times," and confessed his friendship with Jang Hang-jun, a classmate from the theater department at Seoul Institute of the Arts who comforted him during difficult times, along with director Jang Jin. He said, "Jang Hang-jun is funny no matter what he does," delivering candid remarks about the acting direction from director Jang Hang-jun, with whom he has worked on about eight projects, prompting laughter.
Jang Hyun-sung and Jang Young-nam also shared episodes befitting the nickname "death specialist actor." In the 15 million-viewer The King's Warden, where Jang Hyun-sung performed a "one-minute cut death," he said he sensed his death when Jang Hang-jun suddenly called, "You'll know when you come out," and he found a human model "dummy" where he was to go, which drew laughter. In particular, Jang Hyun-sung said he suffered greatly from acting being tortured in The King's Warden and playfully commented, "He said he wouldn't leave me alone if it didn't do well," then showed a warm side by being proud of Jang Hang-jun's box office success.
Jang Young-nam complained about the difficulties of playing dead, saying, "There was a time we couldn't shoot because my eyeballs kept moving," and released an unbelievable anecdote that she took half a sleep aid out of anxiety before the reshoot and completed the shoot safely but was told she had talked in her sleep during the middle of filming, which turned the set into a sea of laughter.
Jang Young-nam said, "When I first did theater, audience surveys once said, 'That actress's voice is uncomfortable to listen to,'" revealing a low-voice complex that earned Kim Ju-ha's sympathy. She also said she played about 30 mothers and praised that among them Park Bo Gum and Park Boyoung were the prettiest, and she said that during Ode to My Father, Hwang Jung-min, who was older and had more experience than her, helped her immerse by calling her "eomui" throughout the shoot.
Meanwhile, Jang Hyun-sung and Jang Young-nam each revealed love stories with their wife and husband. Jang Hyun-sung said that his wife, who was a junior at school, was initially unappealing, but when he learned she was receiving attention from male juniors, he saw her differently, and especially said he fell in love when she silently removed the mackerel bones for him at a pojangmacha they visited together. Jang Young-nam recounted a romantic story in which her husband, a good-looking man seven years younger who was a junior in the troupe, gave her a letter on the day of the play's wrap party expressing, "I'm sorry I liked you," which made hearts flutter.
Jang Hyun-sung also said that his father, who opposed him by saying, "If you're going to act, get off the family register," turned out to have done theater himself, and that his second son is currently active in a "theater club" at school, proving that he has "innate acting DNA." He added that he often has drinks with his two adult sons and described himself as a "dad like a friend." Finally, Jang Hyun-sung and Jang Young-nam expressed gratitude for the warm welcome shown by the Day & Night three MCs and wrapped up the talk in a warm atmosphere.
The 19th episode of Kim Ju-ha's Day & Night will air on Saturday, Apr. 4, at 9:40 p.m.
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