Actors Lee Kwangsoo and Park Boyoung talked about their chemistry in the project.
On the morning of the 27th at the Conrad Seoul hotel in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, a Disney+ original Goldland press conference was held. Attending the press conference were actors Park Boyoung, Kim Sung-Cheol, Lee Hyun-wook, Kim Hie-won, Moon Jeong-hee, Lee Kwangsoo, and director Kim Seong-hoon.
Goldland is a golden desire survival thriller in which Hee-ju (played by Park Boyoung), who gets hold of 150 billion won in gold bullion from a smuggling organization, fights to monopolize the gold amid an Asura: The City of Madness of intertwined greed and betrayal.
When asked how he felt about once again acting alongside a close younger colleague, following Doh Kyung Soo in The Manipulated, Lee Kwangsoo said, "Because we're close, I thought it might be a bit awkward and shy, but I worked with Boyoung 10 years ago and we're close, so it felt more comfortable. Because I know she'll understand whatever I do, I could act comfortably, and I am personally very satisfied with every scene."
He added, "This is the first time I've played a character who's good at fighting. I worked hard on the action scenes this time, and there are many kinds of desire, but I think this is the first time I've tried this kind of heavy desire, so I hope people will see it differently from my previous performances."
When asked about her chemistry with the other actors, Park Boyoung said, "With actor (Kim) Sung-Cheol, their relationship makes you wonder until the end what kind of relationship the two of them have. On set I felt that too; Sung-Cheol often ad-libbed. He would suddenly act like this? and perform unpredictable variations, which helped keep interest in our relationship until the end."
She also said, "Actor Lee Hyun-wook, who plays my lover, gives a very comfortable feeling, so he would always ask whether doing it this way or that way would be more comfortable, and that made the comfort come through naturally. Being comfortable with Lee Kwangsoo could have been awkward, but there was none of that; in the end we fight each other, and because we were comfortable with each other, I think we were actually able to do more, so I'm grateful."
Park Boyoung specifically described the car chase scene in which she confronts Lee Kwangsoo: "It was really scary. From my point of view, a person's face was coming down in reverse, and even though they weren't filming me, I was so frightened I kept screaming and tightly closing my eyes. We filmed without safety glass, and (Lee Kwangsoo), in his immersion, broke the plastic with his hand and forehead. He acted so passionately that the glass nearly shattered; at that moment, if I closed my eyes it passed like a video, it was so frightening," she said candidly, expressing genuine fear and raising expectations.
Meanwhile, Goldland will be released on Disney+ on the 29th.
[Photo] OSEN reporter Cho Eun-jung
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