[Goodbye! Crown Prince - Park
Yoochun Interview ①] Park Yoochun “In ‘Rooftop Prince’, I brushed away
the pressure and enjoyed the fun.”
Now, it’s not awkward anymore when the
title ‘Actor’ is put before his name. Gaining experience steadily
through ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’ (2010) and ‘Miss Ripley’ (2011), he was
ready to make viewers laugh with him through ‘Rooftop Prince’. We are
talking about Park Yoochun who transformed back and forth between Lee
Gak, Yong Taeyong and Lee Gak who pretended to be Yong Taeyong.
The shooting didn’t go smoothly from the
beginning to the end. At the beginning, the shooting might have been
interrupted because of JYJ’s world tour in Chile and Peru but everything
turned out well. However, as soon as he returned to the country, the
sad news that his father has passed away was waiting for him.
Nevertheless, right after his father’s funeral ended, he had to return
to the filming set. Without any words, all the actors and staff embraced
him. Park Yoochun remembered “They didn’t bring up that sad story with
me at all. Instead, they talked about other daily things to me just as
usual. Thanks to their considerations, I could slowly dust away my
burdens.”
We tried to ask Park Yoochun directly about the ending of ‘Rooftop Prince’…
With his ’3
courtiers’ Lee Minho, Jung Sukwon and Choi Woosik, the shooting was
full of ad-libs. Because the script was given out late, they faced with
the crisis of not broadcasting on time. While filming 70 scenes non-stop
in merely 2 days, they could only drink a cup of coffee and sighed ‘We
will soon die because of this’. Unknowingly, as it went along, the
collaboration between these guys started shining. As a result, the final
episode has taken the first place in ratings for Wed-Thurs dramas. He
said “While I was acting, the sincere script touched me too, the
script-writer has put all her heart in it.”
“While playing the role Lee Gak, Yong
Taeyong and Lee Gak who pretended to be Yong Taeyong, I have never been
confused. As I naturally felt that the feelings were divided at
different parts, I was immersed in transforming myself gradually while
reading the script. On the other hand, I had trouble when I totally
transformed to Yong Taeyong. All this time, I was using the sageuk tempo
to say my lines so I have thought that I couldn’t keep up with the
modern-language tempo. At first, I was worried about that.”
Before cutting his hair, Lee Gak who
time-travelled from the Josun era to the modern world has long hair. At
first, he even felt unfamiliar with himself when looking in the mirror.
Park Yoochun laughed and said ” (The look when I used the long wig) is
not that bad”. He said that the wig automatically kept his neck straight
and it was okay for him, except for the fact that it gets tangled
easily when it’s windy.
‘Rooftop Prince’ ended at the scene
where Yong Taeyong, who is wearing the imperial costume, meets with Park
Ha (Han Jimin). This ending scene has led to many different opinions
from the viewers. Some say it was Yong Taeyong but some believe that it
was the Crown Prince Lee Gak. We asked Park Yoochun directly about this
ending scene. Park Yoochun answered “I acted that scene when thinking
that I am 100% Yong Taeyong. I also didn’t think that he had the memory
of Lee Gak either”. Then, he explained more “Some might feel that he is
the reincarnation of Lee Gak so it’s neither a happy ending, nor a sad
ending.”
“The burden of acting in historical drama is big.”
After a successful debut as an actor in
‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’, he chose ‘Miss Ripley’ as his next drama.
Although he received a proposal for the drama ‘The moon embracing the
sun’, he had no confidence to try acting in historical drama one more
time. However, he accepted the role in ‘Miss Ripley’ not because he
tried to avoid historical dramas but because the burden of the sudden
attention was getting bigger so he wanted to break it. Park Yoochun
revealed “After I started shooting for ‘Miss Ripley’, I told myself that
I wouldn’t be able to accomplish this perfectly until the very end and I
have thought of giving up even before it was broadcasted”.
“At first, I had a thought myself that I
must set a gap between the beginning of ‘Rooftop Prince’ and
‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’. However, after a few days, that thought
dissapeared. Because the social status of my characters in two dramas
are different so I thought that the feelings would be 100% different. I
did research in Crown Prince’s lifestyle, gaze and even in how to keep
my neck, my waist etc. I usually exhale really strongly so to fix this
habit, I have practiced my lines a lot.”
Through ‘Rooftop Prince’, Park Yoochun received lots of favorable
comments that his acting ability is getting better. When speaking of
this, Park Yoochun showed his modesty and said “I don’t think so. I
brushed away any pressure and focused on acting only so I was absorbed
in my character. Acting is really fun, now I got to know the real taste
of acting”. While collecting experiences through what he’s been through
in life, his acting will become better and better.
‘Rooftop Prince’ has come to an end not
long ago but it’s still early to feel keenly the absence of Park Yoochun
because he has decided to have other activities in June and planned to
spend the rest of 2012 busily.
“I am considering a lot of proposals. I
want to keep myself busy. I will decide quickly on what to do next,
movies, drama or album so that I will spend the rest of the year even
more busily than right now. I want to do a lot of things before the year
2013 comes.”
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