This is a review article written after watching the video.
Actor Choi Min-sik revealed how he came to debut while working in theater.
On the 30th, the YouTube channel Fairy Jae-hyung posted a video titled Choi Min-sik was reading all the comments too. unprecedented frankness.
That day Choi Min-sik explained how he came to debut in a TV drama while active in a theater troupe. He said, "I never imagined I would do a TV drama. I didn't view TV drama with any particular prejudice, but the troupe was contacted. Someone called Director Cho and said it was KBS and asked to meet," he opened up.
He went on, "It was rehearsal time for 'Years of Ambition.' I went and sat down and they told me to read, but I didn't know what drama it was or what role it was, so I said I would read the script and let them know whether I would do it. They said, 'People other than you are already lining up to take this role now.' I explained, 'I need to know something before I can do it, right?'"
At the time Choi Min-sik was appearing in the play 'Equus,' practicing for two months and performing for one month and the 500,000 won he received was all he had. And when he received the offer to appear in the drama he thought of it as a part-time job and said, "Looking back now, it was a drama that became a very precious connection."
Choi Min-sik, who played the role of Kkushong in the drama 'Years of Ambition,' was loved as a representative rebellious character that shook the 1990s. He said, "I also came to know the taste of money. After about 10 years of theater, the 500,000 won for a one-month run of 'Equus' was the most I received. Theater failed and there were many times I didn't get a single penny. But after the drama I shot a commercial," he said.
When Jung Jae-hyung asked, "Did you taste the sweetness of capitalism?" Choi Min-sik confessed, "It hit me all at once. You should savor it slowly, but it struck me at once," saying the amount was so shocking he couldn't sleep.
After the drama Choi Min-sik said he shot a jeans commercial and recalled, "A catalog offer came. I didn't know how much they would pay; it was a one-day shoot and at the time I received 7,000,000 won. I thought, 'Should I be receiving this?' In today's terms it's like 7 billion, 70 billion concepts. While looking at the contract they said they would give 7,000,000 won."
Then a derived brand of Cheil Industries' affiliates, a somewhat youthful-feeling suit ad also came in. Choi Min-sik honestly said, "That paid more. So I became a celebrity. A person's eyes turn."
However, because it was an era when ratings controlled everything, Choi Min-sik's popularity did not last long as the drama's ratings were low. He said, "On the contrary, that was good for me. Personally, if my popularity had risen I would have remained a celebrity continuously. It would have been up and down; even now I think it worked out well. I thought it was the right thing to do."
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