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Jeong Jihun, [I¡¯m a Cyborg, But It¡¯s OK]
Reporter Ju Seongcheol/ May 19 2006
Ahead of advancing onto the steady stage in the world, the singer Rain appears in the screen as the movie actor Jeong Jihun in a short while. Only with the influence and status, Jeong Jihun is a hot rain to fall down upon the Korean Movies 2006.
It was ¡®Rain¡¯ on the stage, but call him ¡®Jeong Jihun¡¯ now in front of a camera. Rain regained his real name in the movie of the director Park Chanwook . Chosen by the Time magazine as one of the most influential 100 persons in the world a while ago, Rain is showing a better movement forward than expected. Just as the director Park Chanwook, who won the best award of judges in the International Cannes Film Festival through , is in the van of the Korean world of movies, so is Rain a great advanced entertainer who¡¯s directly outgrown the common senses and limits of the popular singers¡¯ circles. This means, he is even beyond the existing Korean wave limited to mostly Asia. In that sense, there is a special meaning in , in which the two hottest vanguards from both worlds of movies and popular music met.
What are mostly the questions asked at overseas?
First of all, they are amazed that I am a Korean entertainer, not Japanese or Chinese. They asked how I felt, considering I am one of the first Asians to come this place. I was very pleased because they knew somewhat a lot about the trend of Korean wave. It seems the Korea¡¯s own uniqueness different from Japan or China¡¯s has been little by little acknowledged. Since few were ignorant of the film director Park Chanwook, they showed a heated interest in me, knowing that I would appear in his new piece of work. On the other hand, how should I be greeted with all the shower of abuse later on, if a nice one doesn¡¯t come out? (He smiles.)
When did you felt something being actualized about the dream of advancing to the stage of America which you had dreamt since long ago?
Even if you may be chosen as Time¡¯s 100 and meet the press or relevant persons in America, the advancement to America isn¡¯t actualized right at the moment. The thing is, if there is many a chance and if somebody had set the table to eat, like senior Hwhang Jeongmin said (he smiles), you should eat it deliciously. But may I digest it nicely? That¡¯s what I am afraid. In that sense, my personal biggest homework is language barrier. If I prepare myself well for English, I guess I might let you have great news through label sources that I have contact with by the time of next year. ¡°The time has passed by that Asian actors performed in action only in Hollywood,¡± said the persons concerned there. I heard them saying in their compliments they wanted Asian actors and actresses performing in melodrama, or furthermore in other genres. Of course, it won¡¯t be easy for the flow to change at a swoop, but the marketability seems to have been being allowed for little by little.
At the party of the Time magazine, it became a topic that you met Jerry Bruckheimer.
Rather, the person I sure hoped to meet in the party was George Lucas who was my idol since childhood. Luckily I saw him in the face, but couldn¡¯t greet him due to a tremble. (He smiles.) In a liberal atmosphere of the spot, I shared greetings with Will Smith. And I meet a lot of America¡¯s significant persons. By and by, I happened to be seat by seat with Jerry Bruckheimer. Actually, I didn¡¯t know who he was at first. The conversation with him started like this: Where are you from? I am from Korea. What do you do? I am a singer and participate in a movie, too. What do you do then? As I couldn¡¯t recognize him either, he was somewhat at a loss in his expression, ¡°Don¡¯t I know you?¡± (He smiles.) To hear he was Jerry Bruckheimer, I felt honored, thinking he is a maker of many blockbuster films of Hollywood I like, such as . I introduced myself as ¡®Rain.¡¯ He looked pleased too, telling me he heard of me a lot. ¡°Are Orientals originally as big as you?¡± he said, ¡°You feel different, compared with my usual thinking of an oriental image only of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.¡± And he handed over his name card saying, ¡°Your physique and voice is sure great. I wish we may have any opportunity to have contact at any earliest.¡±
In , you appear as the man who thinks that Lim Sujeong is a cyborg but is okay, and you too as kind of a psychopath who believes can steal other person¡¯s personality or specialty. How closer do you think you are to the character?
I might have felt myself up to par and somewhat deep in the character. But exchanging talk with the director, I feel below par at times. So I keep searching. There are times when the character the director thinks and mine are different. But he would listen attentively to my opinions. Pretending to be listening, which cuts he will actually use, I don¡¯t know, though. (He smiles.) I am interpreting in my own way. Having been in previous three dramas in TV, I believed I had some kind of my own philosophy of acting. This time, much of it went to pieces. Like soybean paste, acting seems better as it is older and older. However hard I try, I cannot seem to beat the annual rings of a tree, or the wisdom of age. Accordingly, I feel much ashamed of being told the ¡®actor Jeong Jihun.¡¯ Even if not adding the words ¡®I did try very hard this time,¡¯ ¡®I¡¯d like to be such and such an actor,¡¯ I¡¯d like this work to be a long-remembered one. Meanwhile, I am at least as convinced as I can receive compliments of ¡®well-done.¡¯
What is your own philosophy of acting you have had?
Ashamed to say my philosophy of acting, yet if I looked at the script given, I just thought I should be that character myself and then tried hard. Therefore, each chance I got, I would jot them down on the memo, what the character¡¯s peculiarity is, what habits he might have, his way of talking, his style of dressing, and such forth. This time is different. Because he is a psychopath and sometimes comes to senses like a normal person. And he is very mild and good-natured. If others don¡¯t understand them, they have their own world. They are a little distant from the fixed ideas with which people look at a psychopath.
Which scenes, not film titles, do you think are the scenes you¡¯d choose, in the films directed by Park Chanwook yet?
There are two that occur. (He smiles.) In , senior Shin Hagyun was going home. Because of a certain device senior Song Gangho set up, he got electrified and fell on the ground while opening the door, and flopped along. The scene might have been just gone by, but I remember I laughed for a while. Such a strange scene of emotion occurred to me. In , out of confinement, Choe Minsik showed a long action scene in a horizontal long take, at which I was really amazed. I know because I practiced exercise. Such a long take is not easy either physically or emotionally. I was greatly amazed.
In this movie, do you have a desire to be remembered as such scenes?
Everybody might have such desire. But there is the continuity that the director wants to draw along. So there if one has his own greed, things will go astray. Certainly, there are good scenes for me this time. So, each scene each cut, I shall try harder to be left in people¡¯s memory. At times if what the director thinks is different from mine, I feel I was overdoing myself. In so doing, I have been adapting myself. The more I do acting, the harder it seems to be.
This time too, is there an odd humor that is hard to be differentiated between if one should laugh or if one should cry?
Yes. It is an intriguing scene. However, it goes very indifferently. There are times of very difficult acting in which you shouldn¡¯t make them either laugh or cry. At first, I was sometimes at a loss, but compiled, it was more often a better answer. In this movie too, the color of the director¡¯s seems to be very clear.
Despite that, are you getting adapted to the movie called ¡®romantic comedy¡¯?
In fact, I have little comprehension yet. (He smiles.) Once, I asked of the director, ¡°How should I answer them to the question of this film¡¯s genre?¡± He said, ¡°How about calling it kind of romantic comedy?¡± The other staff members have all thought that way yet. The movie is interesting. Not that I do well, but that if I look at the good assistant actors and actresses like senior Oh Dalsu, just their mere remark of words makes us laugh and my partner Lim Sugeong is looking fun and cute. Each of the characters is positive and sure very fresh.
In this coming movie, I was told you hairdo may be like a container for boiled rice? which looks amazing.
I¡¯ve given up on myself. (He smiles.) I am devoted to the movie. I want to be out of the previous person Rain who I was and to be only into that given character. I do acting because I really like it. After the movie, I think I might find myself more matured. If I recall my days of debut, I never thought I would come this high up here. On those days, I merely imagined I wished I were to get any single award, regardless of first prize, encouragement award, or just any whatsoever. (He smiles.) Now that I¡¯ve completed all those and am in front of a bigger one, I¡¯ve gotten fearfulness about how to get along at the corner of mind, too. The director said, ¡°Isn¡¯t it marvelous for us to meet on each different path from other?¡± If one thinks he or she is up to somewhere, there is another one up there to go each time. Hoping there awaits us a good result ahead, I am positive things will turn out better.
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发表于 2006-5-13 03:02
）我們之間的對話是這樣展開的：您來自那個國家？我來自韓國。您從事哪方面的工作？我是歌手同時也參與電影演出。那您之後的計畫是什麼？因為我沒能認出他，他有點不知道該說些什麼。於是我說，我是不是認識您呢？聽到他說他是Jerry Bruckheimer，我充滿了敬意，他正是許多我喜歡的好萊塢票房電影的背後作手。當我介紹我自己時，他看起來也很高興，並說他聽了很多關於我的事。他說，東方人原本都像你一樣高大嗎？和我心中一般東方人形象像是李小龍、成龍相比，你給我的感覺很不一樣。他給了我他的名片並說，你的外型和聲音都很不錯，我希望我們能儘早有機會相互聯繫。