Actors Ra Mi-ran, Kim Hee-won, and Park Jin-young have transformed into people with special superpowers who go back and forth between ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’.This is through the comic action film ‘High Five’, which opens on the 30th.’High Five’ tells the story of people who gain unexpected superpowers after receiving different organs from a mysterious organ donor.

Even though filming was completed in 2021, due to the aftereffects of COVID-19 and the unfortunate incident involving one of the lead actors, Yoo Ah-in, this movie is finally coming to theaters after 4 years, so those who met the film two days before its release could not hide their excitement.They all said, “We are confident that this ‘fun’ movie will be worth the wait.”

O “I thought it was the easiest and most comfortable role”

Kim Hee-won, who plays the strict foreman Yak-seon who gains the ability to absorb and heal other people’s pain and wounds after receiving a liver transplant, said, “I thought he would be a very easygoing character who just had to touch other people’s bodies, but that wasn’t the case at all.”

“Because the character doesn’t simply heal, but absorbs the other person’s wounds into her body, I had to receive special makeup for hours every time I filmed.There were a lot of close-ups of hands, so I often received special makeup for the hands, and the hand makeup alone took over an hour.Because the setting was that the hair would turn white after the treatment, I had to put in every single strand of gray hair.”

Not only that, but after healing the wounds of the injured, he drank a lot of water to recover, which was painful because of the character setting.

“I’m the type of person who doesn’t drink much water, but it was really hard to film the scene where I had to put my mouth on the water purifier faucet and gulp down the water.Every time I filmed, I acted with the thought that I wished this water was a panacea for me.”

O “Villain image? I like it!”

Although the ‘Ha-A-Five’ hero team members, including Lee Jae-in, who was a minor at the time of filming, Ahn Jae-hong, and Yoo Ah-in, were all of different ages, he said that they were all like friends to the point that he didn’t feel the difference.He is the oldest member of the team at 54 years old, but he caught attention by saying that he spent the most time with the youngest member, Lee Jae-in(21).

“While waiting for filming, Jaein and I were chatting about this and that, and he said he liked the computer game ‘LOL’ (League of Legends).I like it too.So we played a lot of LoL.Even after filming was over, I often saw actor Lee Jaein online, haha! Jaein invited his friends, so we played games together.”

Despite being a good hero character, he is considered a ‘high-fi’ due to the strong villain image he showed in previous works.
He, who is often misunderstood as the villain of ‘B ‘, laughed and said, “I rather like it.”

“Even though I’m not a villain, I’m often misunderstood as one, but I use that misunderstanding to my advantage.I thought I was a villain, but if I saw it, it would have more impact.In this movie, actor Park Jin-young played the villain.After watching the movie, I first thought that he really worked hard and that he was really cool.”



Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga.com

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