I worship him.
It gave me a trauma of fighting.
I don’t think I will be able to fight in the future.
Hi I am actor Son Seok-koo
Let me begin Son Seok-koo’s .
39 years old, born in 1983, February 7th.
Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu in Daejeon.
Does it mean my hometown?
I was actually born in Taepyeong-dong, Jung-gu.
It says that my family clan is from Pyeonghae.
But my family name is originated in Milyang.
I’ve never heard of Son from Peyonghae.
178 cm.
I recently had a medical check-up.
And I became 179 centimeters tall.
Without any socks on.
I weigh around 80kgs.
My blood type is B.
Key skills, English and boxing.
I haven’t boxed for a long time.
And haven’t spoked English for a while.
Let’s put that I don’t have any special skills.
What do you do for fun these days?
Recently I am enjoying calligraphy and painting.
As well as writing.
I was dispatched to the 1st security group of ROKA(Republic Of Korea Army) during my military service.
Not the 2nd security group.
I served in the 1st security group until I was discharged.
And volunteered to join the Zaytun Division in Iraq.
I debuted with on March 28th, in 2016.
Some says I made my debut with ,
And some says it was with on Netflix.
I think people have slightly different information.
But I think I did before .
What’s your type of MBTI?
My MBTI is ENFP.
Do you think it explains your personality?
I heard that E is for someone who’s extroverted and have a lot of curiosity.
I was surprised that I am an E instead of I.
But it’s correct that I have a lot of curiosity.
He starred in the role of the main villain – Kang Hae-sung in the film
And starred in the JTBC drama with a character called Mr. Gu.
Success of his 2022 projects led to an increased popularity and recognition for Son.
Ah do I have to watch this?
I was like this.
He says he’s not the one who murdered Jeon Mi-do’s son, and tries to destroy her life.
Let’s hear it.
I remember that she was working on a musical at the same time,
And she came with her friend to the location.
And in her friend’s car, We rehearsed this scene for quite a long time
Trying to read our lines in different tones.
We shot this in a service station somewhere.
My mom changes the channel whenever she sees Son Seok-ku after watching .
I want to watch< My Liberation Notes>.
I feel lucky that I was born in Korea,
that I can feel these wonderful actors’ performance without any filters.
There’s a reply to that comment.
Is that impossible in other countries?
The script said that I should take a long pause
So I stared at her for a long time. And then talked to her.
I asked the director
“Is it correct? Am I doing it right?”
“I can do better if you can give me some direction”
Seok-ku, you are doing it right.
So I didn’t ask many questions.
And the director didn’t say much too.
I really didn’t have any clue when we were shooting this.
I didn’t know what it meant too.
Because she had some dark history,
he was making a toast
To comfort her with unfortunate incidents in her life.
I thought this was supposed to be funny.
I didn’t know that this scene can be this moving.
I just tried to be natural.
So that’s how we shoot it on set.
But when I saw the edited scene,
I thought the director is a genius.
That face would be a captain wherever in the world.
He picks on everything, but I can feel he is such a laid-back executive.
He checks the officer’s name tag when he says he should return his vacation.
I worship him.
The captain drives a Discovery.
At first, I was also like, ‘do I drive a Discovery’?
This was my first shoot.
For .
So I was like, “Don’t you have a Galloper?”
Personally, this was one of my favorite performances
Among the ones I have done so far.
Because I tried really hard.
I wanted to try my best back then.
I really enjoyed serving in the military for 2 years.
And this is a community that I know very well.
I wanted to portray the characteristics very well.
That’s why I prepared a lot for this.
And I was very proud,
Because I could hear people talking about on the street as soon as
it was released on Netflix.
‘Park Woo-ri’ is a character who is positive, bright, and easy to get along with.
He doesn’t dwell on something.
And doesn’t get stressed easily.
I think those aspects were very similar to me in real life.
And I didn’t get stressed much playing the character.
They talk about different epitaphs, but what would your own epitaph be if you were to write one for yourself?
Epitaph. My epitaph on my grave.
Actually I am alive?
Find me.
Actually I am alive.
Mr. Gu’s Worshipping Diary 1: Getting Mi-jeong’s hat going across the brook.
I remember the director put a lot of effort into this scene.
Because actually
It didn’t look very good if I do it with a wire.
I practiced how to do it with a wire
the day before the shoot.
But I had to try with a actual wire to get the best shot.
I love every single drama or film I worked on.
But I got especially attached to this one.
So I read every single comments since its start.
I wondered why it is not getting very good reactions
Even though I find it really interesting.
Honestly at first.
But the director said we should wait and see. And then starting from this scene,
Where Mr. Gu gets Mi-jeong’s hat
Going across the brook.
How should I put it?
I felt that my heart began to open up.
So this drama felt like
A living creature.
The song is too good.
I worship you.
Philippines… wait a second.
Actor Son Seok-ku who’s staying in Philippines comes back to Korea after shooting abroad.
There’s a group chat with the cast of .
And they made fun of this.
“Are you a foreign actor coming to Korea?”
They all sent this article in the group chat and asked me
You should pay for your crime.
Doesn’t it sound like he’s coming to Korea to kill someone?
Welcome Mr. Gu, let’s do a photoshoot.
People wonder who would win in a fight between Jang Chen and Kang Hae-sang.
I think Jang Chen would win.
Because he has a lot of henchmen.
I betray people too often.
The problem is that
Kang Hae-sang is bad at managing people.
Jang Chen was also beaten a lot by Ma Seok-do.
But I got beaten really hard too.
It gave me a trauma of fighting.
I don’t think I will be able to fight in the future.
What was the toughest or most memorable thing while shooting the action scenes?
There are too many of those memories for .
The toughest scene was the one with the elevator.
All capillaries in my eye burst
And the other thing I remember is, when I was chasing Jang Yi-soo with his money bag.
It felt like it was over 40 degrees Celsius.
And then we had to run across the roads Between the speeding cars.
And we didn’t have a lot of time
To block the roads.
There is the most important scene in the end
Where Kang Hae-sang looks at the people
And says a word.
But we couldn’t shoot it Because of the rain.
So the last scene
Was shot in front the blue screen.
We tried hard to get the shooting done before the rain,
That’s the only scene we couldn’t shoot in time.
It has been a while since I did a photoshoot.
But it’s always fun to do it.
Please look forward to it.
Thank you everyone.
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