[semantic error] seoham vs jaechanâs cuteness, ft the long-suffering directorâs âcuteness banâ â an interview collection
seoham: jaechannie is so cute, have you seen how cute he isâ
T/N: the term consistently used throughout is ęˇěŹě íë¤ which ive variously translated as âcuteâ âaffectionâ âfondâ. ęˇěŹě ę¸ě§ë šÂ might be more accurately translated as âbeing fond of jaechan banâ but it doesnât have the same ring lol. Itâs hard to convey exactly, but as you can see from context, itâs a ban on seoham not on jaechan đ ęˇěŹě íë¤ transliterated is âto find cuteâ. It is translated by the 3 dictionaries Naver offers as âlove; make a pet of; be affectionate to (esp younger person or animal)â. âlove, adore, dote onâ â love, pet, fondle, make a pet, hold ((a person)) dear, be attached to, treat ((a person)) with love[affection]â
220210 N-interview part 2
Q: what was something about the acting that you found difficult?
Jaechan: Sangwooâs way of speaking is very direct and lacks emotion. So I had to practice a lot to show his emotions through his facial expression.
Seoham: youâve(?) talked a lot about jaeyoungâs coolness/charisma. Thatâs not really my style so I had to really think about what it meant to be âcoolâ. Also Jaeyoungâs emotions change throughout the series. He gets to like Sangwoo after initially harassing him, and because this couldnât be filmed sequentially I had to keep thinking about his changing feelings and it wasnât easy to act. And also Jaechan is a particularly cute person so it was hard to act like I was bullying him. The director said âlook, I know Jaechan is cute but youâve got to stop treating him so affectionatelyâ
Q: so there was a âcuteness banâ because you had to immerse in your characters?
Jaechan: hyung would hang out with me (& indulge my antics) and then say with a very serious face âyou are not cuteâ and start his acting
Seoham: itâs not like he was necessarily trying to be cute but more like he was trying to make the other person laugh? that kinda thing
Park Seoham says that Park Jaechan is a âperson who is cuteness personifiedâ.Â
âJaechan himself is really just a cute person. So it makes you want to dote on him. So in scenes where I was meant to be bullying him, it appeared that I was actually being fond of him. Also, while filming, it we ended up jumping around between dynamics a lot for various reasons - from being angry to affectionate to love - so it was hard to act out the wildly changing feelings.â
âEventually, the director told me, âcome to a cafe,â so I went there, and they were like âyouâre being too fond of Jaechan. stop.â and implemented the âJaechan cuteness banâ. But Jaechan (didnât pick up on this issue âëěšěě´â and) kept being as cute as always. So I eventually ended up going through this mantra before filming: âyou are not cute. you are not cute at allâ.â (he says 죟돸ě 깸ěë¤ which is so funny lol itâs like trying to make yourself believe something, literally âcasting a spell on yourselfâ)
220304 sports chosun interview part 2
Seoham: If Jaechan acted cute on purpose then I donât think I wouldâve found him cute, but when he naturally has aegyo when heâs just sitting there grumpily (ëąíę˛). Thatâs what I found so cute. And after the âcuteness banâ Iâd look at Jaechan standing in front of me doing aegyo, and even while I was saying âyouâre not cute!â Iâd find myself starting to smile.Â
(this interview is rly sweet - itâs where seoham talks about jaechan supporting him & taking him to meet his parents around lunar new year. i might do a full translation later (lmk if one alr exists))
Q: director, please explain the âban on cutenessâ in detail from your perspective
Director: I implemented the ban many times ^^; because the two are so close and seoham is very fond of jaechan/thinks jaechan is very cute, that fondness was in his eyes from the early episodes. so I laid down the ban many times like âstop looking at him with such a soft expression.â âplease stop going near him and touching himâ
Seoham: But I think it was unfair. When I got the ban I said to jaechan âyou really are not cute at allâ. And then he did aegyo in front of me like he was saying ânot even if I do this?â
Jaechan: when coming back to set after hanging out during the breaks, seoham would tell me very seriously âyou are not cuteâ and that made me want to prove him wrong.
220311 sports w interview part 2
Director: We were rehearsing the scene in episode 6 where theyâre having an argument in an alleyway, and the tension just wasnât there. seoham was already too fond of jaechan so he couldnât deliver the lines with appropriate bitterness. i ended up telling him to step out for a second and stopped the rehearsal. i told him that i know youâre fond of him, but those emotions just donât work in this scene. also, the same thing happened when we were filming the second episode, where theyâre in the french classroom and jaeyoung is wearing the red clothes, at the peak of his bullying of sangwoo. at this time seoham and jaechanâs friendship was blossoming. seoham needed to show that jaeyoung was enjoying tormenting sangwoo, but the look in his eyes was just too affectionate. i told him to look at sangwoo like he was a cute puppy or a cat *laughs*
220313 star news interview
âThe two actors got closer as the episodes progressed. in the early episodes, there are a lot of scenes where jaeyoung is harassing sangwoo, so I had to put a lid on park seohamâs gaze. I remember often saying things like âstop doting on jaechanâ âstop looking at him so fondlyâ âplease stop looking at him with hearts in your eyesâ,â said the director (Kim Sujeong). âBut the actors dubbed it a âcuteness banââ, she laughed.
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