‘Bokssak’ Moon So-ri, choked up from the first question “I was happy with Ae-soon” [DA: Interview ①]

Actress Moon So-ri choked up as she bid farewell to ‘Ae-soon’.

In an interview for the Netflix series ‘Bokssak, I Was Fooled’ held at the Grand Ballroom of the Ambassador Seoul Pullman Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 2nd, Moon So-ri confessed, “I feel like crying” when asked about her feelings about living as ‘Ae-soon’. She said, “‘When I get this question, I think it‘s over, I have to let her go”. It seems like Ae-soon’s life is passing by like a panorama and like someone facing death. I lived diligently without regrets and was happy to be with such good people. I thought I was happy even in the strong wind and cold”. She continued, “The filming period was long, and it was my first time doing manual labor. I am so grateful that so many people sympathized with me,” she said.

Moon So-ri said she never asked or heard the reason why she was cast. She said, “I really wanted to do it as soon as I first received the script. Since her 30s, ‘Ae-soon’ has been an ordinary mother. Regardless of what happened during the spring and summer, she is now an ordinary mother who always does her best for her children, does housework at home, works at a stall outside, and is busy because of her children. She is a character who is not at the center of the incident.” She also said, “Usually, I focus on what kind of person my character is and what they will do, but for this project, I felt like I had to do something. The script was touching. I also had great faith in the writer and director, so I wanted to do this project without hesitation and without hesitation.”

Moon So-ri emphasized that she believed in the power of a good story rather than the point of an ordinary ‘mother.’ He said, “‘Jeongnyeon’ and ‘Bokssak Deceived’ were both big reasons for doing the works, so the fact that the character was a mother was pushed back 100 times. It wasn‘t a consideration.” “’Jeongnyeon‘ also had a big power in the story based on pansori. In ’Bokssak Deceived‘, the character and occupation didn’t matter. I wondered if it had to be a professional in the work, and what‘s the point of doing well. Rather than that, I felt the power of a good work once again this time. I think that the sense of fulfillment and accomplishment cannot be exchanged for anything else.” He expressed his satisfaction.

Although it is a work that has made numerous viewers cry, Moon So-ri herself was busy looking at her own shortcomings. She said, “It’s always the same. I only see what I regret and what I lack. Because thoughts like ‘Should I have done this in this scene?’ spread out, it seems difficult to fully immerse yourself in the work at first impression. He said, ”I think I‘ll watch it again a little later, around the end of the year.“ While mentioning the scene where he calls his mother at the beach, he said, ”It was the coldest day I’ve ever experienced in my life. Even though I know the Jeju Island wind, there was no day as windy as that day. When we cut, I was so swaying that I felt like I was going to fall over that the staff had to come to catch me. I endured and filmed, but when I looked at the finished scene, I didn‘t see that day,“ he said with a laugh, mentioning a behind-the-scenes story.

In terms of the meaning behind ‘I Was Fooled Deeply’, he said, ”I don’t really watch the works I‘m in, but I think ‘I Was Fooled Deeply’ might become the work that people watch the most. He said, “I think I’ll miss my daughter when she goes abroad to study, and I think I‘ll miss her when she gets married.”

‘I Was Fooled By Bangsak’ is a Netflix series that unfolds the adventurous lives of ‘the rebel girl’ Ae-soon, who was born in Jeju Island, and ‘the unstoppable iron’ Gwan-sik, through four seasons. It expresses the lives of ‘Ae-soon’ and ‘Gwan-sik’, who go on an adventure together against the waves of life, through four seasons.

Moon So-ri took over the role of ‘Ae-soon’ in her youth from IU and played the role of ‘Ae-soon’ in her middle age. She also acted as mother and daughter with IU, who played ‘Ae-soon’’s daughter ‘Geum-myeong’. ‘Ae-soon’s counterpart, ‘Gwan-sik’, starred Park Bo-gum and Park Hae-joon, and they performed passionately from the youth to the middle age.

‘Bok-ssak Cheot-soo-da’, which consists of 16 episodes, was released four times a week, and the last act 4 was presented on the 28th of last month. ‘Bok-ssak Cheot-soo-da’, which ranked 1st in the ‘Today‘s Korea TOP 10’ series category as soon as the 1st act was released, ranked 1st in the Global TOP 10 Series (Non-English) category in its 3rd week of release, and has been in the upper ranks of the Global TOP 10 Series (Non-English) category since the release of the 1st act. After the release of the 4th act, it recorded 6 million viewers (the number of hours watched divided by the total running time of the series), and rose to 3rd place in the Global TOP 10 Series (Non-English) category. It made a beautiful ending by making it to the TOP 10 list in a total of 39 countries including not only South Korea but also Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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