The Celebrity January 2017 | Choi Minho
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Q: Ma Dong Seok who filmed movie <Two Men> together assured that ‘Minho is growing up to be a great actor’ and audiences left a review, saying ‘I went to see SHINee Minho but ended up discovering actor Choi Minho’. How do you feel at that?
A: It’s a compliment to me as a rookie actor. Thus, it makes me know that there are still many ways for me to go through in the future. There are a lot who say that my gaze was different in the movie and I also felt that it was different when I filmed <Two Men>. I studied Jinil’s character as human Choi Minho instead of SHINee Minho, and I worked hard to express that emotion. I’ve become a bit more mature as an actor through <Two Men>.
Q: I heard that you learned how to smoke and curse which you’ve never done before during the filming of <Two Men>. Did you manage to quench your thirst for a new character?
A: Come to think of it, <Two Men>’s Jinil is very different from the characters I’ve played until now. Since I’ve never tried a role of runaway teenager and poverty-stricken man, it wasn’t easy to express the mentality. I worked hard, learned how to smoke according to the script, and worked hard on how to make my way of eating be Jinil-like during eating scene. With movies, I think I need to pay attention to small details in order for the audiences to be able to understand the flow of a character. Even with not strong characters as well, it’s an actor’s job to be able to express and figure out something new in the given character. It’s my goal to be an actor who shows a new and unique character through the given character.
Q: Is there any similarity between <Two Men>’s Jinil and Choi Minho?
A: Jinil is a man who would do everything to protect the one he loves. Although he lives in poverty, he protects the one he loves, and violently struggles to survive. I could relate to his sense of responsibility. I tried planting my sense of responsibility to understand, study, and express Jinil’s inner side in detail.
Q: The ‘Two Men’ in my life are?
A: My father and my hyung. During my childhood days, I used to fight with hyung even when our eyes met, and we caused trouble a lot. What’s fascinating is, we become closer and friendly as we grow up. Although we’re family, he’s also like a friend. I think brothers relationship is funny. My father came to <Two Men> premiere and said to me, ‘You’ve worked hard’ (laughs). I actually didn’t have a lot of memories with my father when I was young. He was always exceptionally busy being a soccer player, he became a coach right after he retired from being a soccer player, and he has lived without rest as a soccer manager. Since I’m also a public figure just like my father, I became curious with how my father was like during his twenties. I think he wasn’t that different from me.
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