[Translation/ #Happy6002Day ] [Focus] Park Yuchun, Now he seems to know ‘the taste’ of the acting, which he began without knowing much about it…

박유천, 멋 모르고 시작한 연기…이제 ‘그 맛’ 알 것 같도다

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He has earned a lot through drama ‘Rooftop Prince.’ It is a drama, which made him to really enjoy acting and also consoled him through difficult times.

Although he went through crises of unexpected loss of his father and scandals before the premier of drama, he overcame all hardships, brought the drama ‘to a successful conclusion’ until episode 20, and deeply impressed viewers as ‘actor’ Park Yuchun.

Park Yuchun, who played ‘a double role’ as Crown Prince Lee Gak of Joseon Dynasty and Yong Taeyong, the reincarnated person in modern times, in SBS’s ‘Rooftop Prince’SBS,’ told us the behind story of the drama in a lighthearted mode after finishing the drama.

“I am glad we could end well without any accident of broadcasting until the episode 20 because our schedule was really tight from the beginning of the drama. Personally, I was devotedly attached to this drama more than other dramas and I feel I ended the drama nicely because this drama itself impressed me as well.”

While he started not knowing much about acting during his first drama ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal (SKKS),’ this drama was the drama, which made him to understand an interest in acting. Although it was miraculous for each episode to be aired due to tight filming schedule, the harmony between actors and actresses were better than any other times. Because he could naturally react to the ad-libs, he found easier to dissolve/infuse his thoughts into the acting.

“’SKKS’ pressurized me a lot during the previous drama. Because I could not shake off the pressure, I had thoughts of giving up. After I overcame them with help of people around me, I figured out emptying my mind is more important than thoughts like ‘let’s be good’ when I started this drama. As I emptied my mind, I could concentrate in acting without great pressure.”

The true value of the character he has interpreted was expressed in various places in the drama. English was impregnable to Lee Gak who is inarticulate in speaking modern language. Because Lee Gak was not familiar he could say ‘Omurisu’ instead of Omurice and ‘Isu bar’ instead of ice bar. These words created by him were actually written in the scripts in the latter part of the drama.

Furthermore, he used ‘glasses’ as a border to differentiate ‘Yong Taeyong’ and ‘Lee Gak.’ When he was wearing glasses, he was Yong Taeyong; and he was Lee Gak when he did not wear glasses. Because he wanted to go to his lover Park Ha (Han Jimin) as Lee Gak, he did not wear glasses although he was playing Yong Taeyong.

Regarding a variety of opinions concerning who Park Ha met in the last scene, he said “It is 100% Yong Taeyong.” Although the script said ‘not recognizing Park Ha,’ he gently gazed at Park Ha as Yong Taeyong with feelings of Lee Gak subconsciously rather than completely separating two characters (Lee Gak & Yong Taeyong).

The meaning of tears while he made a confession with tears while he kissed with Park Ha was not just simple love. Confessing to Park Ha meant he needs to give up Joseon. He explained that the tears naturally flowed with the pain he has to go back to Joseon with ‘Rooftop 3 courtiers.’

“When the reactions of viewers were the same as how I have interpreted and acted, it felt like they have recognized and I felt great. I felt extreme happiness for those times.”

He, who now knows ‘the fun of acting,’ would like to play variety of roles. He would like to act as a criminal lie a psychopath or murderer, and etc. He would like to play roles which one needs the acting ability to dominate the scene just with acting without make-up, lights, angles, and etc.

“I would like to play more variety of roles in the future. But, I would like to be in ‘a medical drama,’ which is one of them (roles he would like to play), as late as possible. I filmed a hospital scene as Yong Taeyong and felt medical drama is difficult because it took more than 6 hours to just film the scene where I was in the emergency room. I would like to do it as late as possible. Haha.”

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