Actor An Woo Yeon revealed the behind-the-scenes story of a shocking line in "Doctor Shin."
Recently, at the OSEN office located in Mapo-gu, Seoul, a wrap-up interview was held with lead actor An Woo Yeon of TV CHOSUN's weekend drama "Doctor Shin."
"Doctor Shin" is a medical thriller drama about a genius doctor who challenges the realm of God and a woman whose brain is damaged overnight and who loses her soul. In the work, An Woo Yeon played Ha Yong-jung, a successful game developer.
That day, when asked about writer Im Sung-han's directing of the Ha Yong-jung character, An Woo Yeon said, The script did not come out of nowhere; it came from the writer's head. The writer wrote it alone for seven months, doing interviews without an assistant writer. How precisely must those emotions have been in the writer's head? So if we felt we were interpreting it differently, the writer would say, 'That won't do. Do it again.' Until it was right. We couldn't get past one line. Sometimes the writer would come during rehearsals and fix those parts, and then we would understand that emotion and analyze other things from that emotion; I think that's how we rehearsed.
He continued, The writer also edited. Not having seen the set, the writer kept watching the footage while editing, and if something needed fixing, she would do additional post-recording. As far as I know, I didn't have that much post-recording. The time I did post-recording was when I caught the flu. At the end I had a very bad cold and suffered a lot. I did a lot of post-recording for parts where my voice wouldn't come out. Other than that, she didn't say much.
He said scheduling was difficult because of a tight timetable, It happened to be the week before the last week of filming. We had to take down the sets so there was no choice. I caught a really bad flu when a severe flu was going around, so it was really tough. That happened when we were filming scenes for episodes 12 through 14. We decided not to do post-recording at times because the emotion was fine, but my voice showed a bit, which was regrettable.
When asked whether he had difficulty delivering the unique lines characteristic of Im Sung-han's works, An Woo Yeon said, The thing I worried about most was that speech pattern. Aren't the lead actors all not that young? When I read the script, I didn't think it had the tone of young kids. What's strange is that we performed the writer's words without removing a particle. Since actions are even written in the script, that speech pattern seems to come naturally. Among ourselves, if someone sounded too childlike we would say, 'You sounded like a kid. That won't do,' and correct each other, and I think those speech patterns came out that way.
He went on to say the most difficult lines were, Of course we focus when we act. During rehearsal we know which lines feel corny. You have to hold back laughter when shooting those lines, right? That's hard. I'm the type who doesn't laugh when I concentrate, but Bara (played by Joo Se bin) laughed. I think I would have laughed too. The corny lines must be delivered seriously, but since we objectively know they're corny and funny, it must have been hard to hold back that laughter. Among the lines Bara says to me is 'Oppa gets a lot of messages from Madam Ttu-deul too.' I saw the word 'Madam Ttu-deul' for the first time too. Bara got obsessed with it and laughed a lot.
He also revealed the behind-the-scenes of the much-talked-about line, 'Look at me and pee.' In the episode 7 preview, Ha Yong-jung, who is on a video call with Geum Bara in the bathroom, utters the line 'Look at me and pee,' which shocked viewers. But it turned out the comment was about the pet dog Jjanji. On that, An Woo Yeon said, I thought after seeing the preview, 'This will definitely make viewers watch.' Honestly, the editing was cleverly done, he said in admiration.
He said, My face appears and saying 'Look at me and pee' to a woman has a perverted feel, doesn't it? I laughed, thinking, 'People will really say a lot.' I got a lot of messages because of that. They asked, 'Is this real? Why did you do that?' I said, 'Sorry. But it's a misunderstanding.' It didn't feel bad, it was just funny, he laughed.
Asked whether there were any bloopers during filming, He said, I'm the type who rarely has NGs. We rehearsed so long that overall I think there weren't many NGs. (The interview continues in part 2.)<
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