Actor Ryu Jun-yeol, taking on his first dual role since his debut, mentioned the efforts made to create visual differences between the two characters.
On the 1st, an interview with Ryu Jun-yeol about the Netflix series Mousetrap was held at a café in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Mousetrap is a chase thriller about novelist Moon Jae, whose name, face and life are entirely stolen by the mysterious being Mousetrap, loan shark No Ja who tries to recover his lost money, and detective Sun-yong pursuing Mousetrap's true identity.
On the day, Ryu Jun-yeol opened up about the release of Mousetrap, saying, I have noticeably received a lot more messages compared with other works. So I feel people are enjoying it and I am grateful.
Asked what kinds of messages he mostly received, he said, The dominant message was that they had to go to work but couldn't because of you. I directly feel the director has recently been good at delivering satisfying endings.
Through Mousetrap, Ryu Jun-yeol took on a dual role for the first time. Asked if it was a challenging role, Ryu Jun-yeol said, It wasn't hugely difficult. Even if it weren't a dual role, you need physical time to adapt in the beginning, and that didn't feel particularly hard. Looking back, I had many regrets, so I worked hard to fill and patch those.
He said he tried to keep a similar tone since he shares the role with Park Yoon-Ho. Ryu Jun-yeol explained, Yoon-ho would deliver one line and I would deliver another, and sometimes Yoon-ho delivered my lines. Yoon-ho would come on his days off and ask, and I also called and texted personally to ask how he would approach the lines. We tried to match that or adjust it in ways like saying it would be good if done this way to synchronize our rhythm.
At an earlier press conference it was said that many of Ryu Jun-yeol's ideas were reflected in Mousetrap. When asked what ideas he suggested while doing the dual role, Ryu Jun-yeol added, I think we discussed things from the actor's perspective. The director listened, and I gave many overall opinions on the characters' appearance, voice and costumes when portraying the two people. Many of the things the director said he would consider and then chose included my opinions.
Ryu Jun-yeol also said, Regarding voice, we tried blending Yoon-ho's voice and mine, from 9:1 to 6:4, even 5:5 — the voices are all different. He would play them and ask what I thought. In the end I sometimes changed my own voice, and those efforts seemed to turn out well.
Regarding external changes, Ryu Jun-yeol mentioned the differences, saying, I wore lenses when playing Mousetrap, lenses with speckles on the whites. Yoon-ho also wore them, so we have the same eyes, and I kept my original mole for Moon Jae but removed it for Mousetrap. We brought that kind of detail. I also made the ears slightly different so that overall one person appears sensitive while the other subtly seems not.
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