Exclusive interview with Elizaveta Ilijana, the heroine of FTISLAND’s new release “WIND”.
June 7, the popular Korean band, FTIsland, released the 10th anniversary album “OVER 10 YEARS”. The main track of album is “WIND”. This sensual song was decorated with a beautiful MV which was made by David Jongkwon Kim. We have already seen his work with the band last year ("Take Me Now"), that’s why there was no doubt that the video would be really great!
Pleasant surprise for Russian Primadonna was the participation in the MV of the Russian model, beautiful woman, Elizaveta Ilijana. We were able to find her and had a nice talk. And after that she agreed to be interviewed special for russian fanbase We ❤ FTISLAND and answer all our questions!~
Q.: Liza, MV is amazing…you’re very beautiful! Tell us about yourself, please. How did it happen that you became the main character of the video?
Liza: I’ve been working as a model about a year. This is my second trip to Seoul, before that I was in Tokyo. To be honest, I don't know myself how it turned out that I worked for the MV of this band. There wasn't even a casting for this work. One day they just told me: "Liza, you're shooting for a video of a Korean band"
Q.: Wow! Very interesting ~ I would say that it’s a real gift of fate :) What do you think about our boys? Were you able to communicate with them? Tell us about the members ... your feelings.
Liza: I wouldn’t say that it’s some gift of fate or something else :) I think of such projects just a job. Well...guys are quite communicative. I was talking more with those who could speak a little bit English. Minhwan and Seunghyun have a good level of spoken language! In general, we communicated with everyone, because we worked together all day. Sometimes the director helped us to understand each other. But it seemed that the guys were nervous because of me :) At first, they avoided me, and then everybody relaxed. The frontman of the group also speaks English, but the first part of the shooting he looked very tired and didn’t leave the make-up room. But later the members woke him up.
Q.: Oh...I see. Hongki and the whole band have a really busy schedule now.
Liza: They started to play something to defuse the situation! Generally, they are very friendly with each other ... well, I thought so ...
Q.: This is true actually. They've been working and playing together from an early age. And at the beginning of his career, they've even lived together several years. Liza, tell us more about the shooting? Were there any funny situations or maybe happened something dangerous?
Liza: One of the funny situations was a scene with the guy with green hair (Minhwan). He was very embarrassed to put his head on my chest. The poor boy turned red. Everyone laughed at him very much and constantly joked.
Q.: Aah ... Minhwan! Well, judging by the frame, everything turned out! It looks very gentle ... By the way, JongHoon is a real ladies' man among them :)
Liza: I felt it. He behaves in a ladies' man style :) By the way, he also knows English, quite a bit. Each of them came up to me and asked whether I want something. They are very attentive.
Q.: Recently in the broadcast JongHoon ... almost in pure Russian said "Hello, my name is JongHoon!" Did you teach them Russian words? Did they ask you about it? Were they interested in Russia?
Liza: They constantly laughed and said "spasibo", "privet" and so on. They treat Russia well. I didn't notice any negative towards Russia.
Q.: We are waiting for them in Moscow. We are looking forward to the concert :)
Liza: Is this real? :) Well, I think if they have a large number of fans in the CIS countries, then why not come.
Q.: Yeah! We do everything possible to make FT Island come to Russia :) What about you, do you interesting in k-pop culture or it is something new for you?
Liza: I can’t say that this is something new for me. I know how the Koreans themselves relate to their music. I've always been impressed that they are really very proud of their music and idols. But, I never immersed myself in it :)
Q.: I can't tell you for all the Korean artists, but I assure you in a quality of FTIsland's music. They are unique and different from all ... they have a heavy and mature sound.
Liza: I agree with you. They are already grown-up men and skilled musicians. Their music is perceived in a different way from k-pop world.
Q.: Maybe there is something else you’d like to share with us?
Liza: There was a very calm work atmosphere. Sometimes there were big breaks, and someone went off to eat or just slept in the make-up room :) Every in a shooting crew was attentive to me. There were no incidents, everybody was constantly laughing. If something unexpected happened, members joked and continued to work. Some of them played the guitar. The atmosphere was very pleasant! And also…we had vans which we lived in.
Q.: Really very cool! It seems the atmosphere was really nice :)Thank you for conversation! Sincerely I wish you great success in your very interesting work!
Liza: Thank you very much.
Cr.: interview by missnight | We ❤ FTISLAND
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