‘Match’ Lee Byung-hun talked about the parts he focused on in this movie.

On the afternoon of the 19th, a press conference for the movie ‘Match’ was held at CGV Yongsan I-PARK MALL in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Actors Lee Byung-hun, Ko Chang-seok, Hyun Bong-sik, Moon Jung-hee, Jo Woo-jin, and director Kim Hyung-joo attended the press conference that day.

Lee Byung-hun said about filming ‘Match’, “When I first read the script and watched various documentaries, I couldn‘t believe that something so dramatic was based on a true story. It was so interesting to hear that these two legends had these stories and went through these processes. While filming, I had to spend almost all of the time in front of the Go board with no changes in emotion. There must be emotions that explode in the stillness, and I put a lot of effort into expressing extreme emotions such as despair,” he said.

Lee Byung-hun also said, when asked about the parts he put a lot of effort into while acting, “It was the most difficult to express emotions that moved greatly within the stillness with small movements, but it was also the part that I found fun. The life of 9-dan Cho Hun-hyun, who has so many records, is like a person who lost to his student and then kept losing, then going back to the beginning and climbing back up the steps one by one to the top. In the movie, it was just a line, but I thought that his actual feelings must have been hard to imagine. I think it was hard to act out those things, read those feelings, and make them my own.”

Meanwhile, “Match” tells the story of Cho Hun-hyun (played by Lee Byung-hun), the greatest Go legend in Korea, who loses to his student and then challenges the top once again with his natural competitive spirit. Opening on the 26th.

Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com

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