Shin Min-a, who has a crush on someone, explained the character she played in this work.

On the afternoon of the 9th, Shin Min-a met with Donga.com for an interview about the Netflix series ‘Evil Romance’ at JW Marriott Dongdaemun Square Seoul in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and talked about the work.

On this day, Shin Min-a was asked if she felt any pressure about the many characters with various strong personalities in this production, and she said, “Isn’t the appearance too scary? And I joined later after all the actors had finished filming their parts. I watched it after all the stories were finished. So before going to the filming set, I felt nervous because I thought everyone would be too familiar. Park Hae-soo appeared like that, but he was such an angel. Kim Nam-gil was the same. There was a sense of closeness. So fortunately, the nervousness was okay after the first filming. But I still thought that I had to work hard.”



When asked if she referenced the original webtoon-based ‘Evil Destiny’ before filming, Shin Min-a explained, “In the original, the role was a nurse who would seem to have trauma. The fact that she was changed to a doctor was changed from the beginning. When I asked why, he said that he wanted her to seem like she was living her daily life well, but that he wanted her to seem like she was in pain somewhere. He often said that he didn’t want to show her having a hard time. But I thought the director had something in mind. The setting changed a lot, and he told me not to read the webtoon, so I only read the script.”

On the one hand, there are viewers who feel frustrated by the passive attitude of the lead character in ‘Evil Romance’. Shin Min-a honestly confessed, “That burden was there from the script. While talking with the director, the role changed from a nurse to a doctor, and she acts while hiding her emotions in real life. It even seems like she’s taking revenge, but her boyfriend solves it and she doesn’t even know about it. In fact, this can feel frustrating in terms of expression, but I thought that was the position that the lead character had in ‘Evil Romance’. We agreed that the ending story needed a character like the lead character, and that this was the story they wanted to tell. That’s why I think the most realistic way for the victim to cut off the perpetrator is because the lead character is the victim.”

Finally, when Shin Min-a was asked if she thought the lead character of ‘Evil Romance’ would have been happy in the end, she said, “If I were to ask the opposite question, would she have been happy if she had ended all those evil deeds and evil relationships, I think it would have been another kind of pain. It would be an extreme expression to say that the lead character was happy. She was constantly stabbed by the trauma and pain that she had, but symbolically cutting it off could be seen as a sign that her heart is distancing itself from that pain,” drawing attention.

Meanwhile, ‘Evil Relations’, released on the 4th, is a crime thriller that depicts the story of six people who are entangled in an evil relationship that they cannot escape from even if they want to.

Shin Min-a plays the role of Joo-yeon, a surgeon who lives with lifelong trauma.

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

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