Actor Park Jin-young has taken on a villain role for the first time in 13 years since his debut.

The movie ‘High Five’ is a comic action film that depicts the story of five people who accidentally gain different superpowers through organ transplants and meet those who covet their powers.

Park Jin-young plays the main villain Young-choon in ‘High Five’, sharing the role with actor Shin Goo.Young-choon is the leader of the Saesin cult who gained the supernatural power to absorb youth after receiving a pancreas transplant.He erases his past, helpless in the face of death, and is reborn as a lively young man.He learns of the existence of other organ transplant recipients and begins to chase them in order to monopolize all their supernatural powers, creating tension as he takes center stage in the latter half of the drama.

In an interview commemorating the release of ‘High Five’, Park Jin-young expressed his feelings when he was first offered the role in one word:” ‘This is coming to me?’ “

He said, “I’ve played many good roles so far, so when I got the offer, I really wanted to do it.However, I didn’t know that I would be playing a double role with Mr.Shin Goo.When I met him, I found out that I had to imitate his way of speaking, and I thought, ‘This is a big deal.’ When I met with the director, he read all my lines, so I recorded them,” looking back on the beginning of the character ‘Young-chun.’

He continued, “I memorized the lines with the same speech(as Shingu), but I ran into a dilemma.I ended up just imitating them.The director told me to start cutting out lines, so I mixed my speech with the director’s,” adding, “I had an amazing experience on set.The director told me to ‘cut out only 10%, 30%,’ and strangely, I understood it well.” He added, “I tried imitating Shingu’s famous catchphrase, ‘You know how good crab tastes,’ but I couldn’t keep up with the original.”
‘High Five’ is a movie that was released four years after filming.At that time, Park Jin-young was also filming the TVING original ‘Yumi’s Cells ‘.He said, “In season 1 of’ Yumi’s Cells ‘, Yubabi’s part was small, and we filmed it together at that time.If Young-chun and Yubabi had similar characters, it would have been more difficult, but because they are so different, it wasn’t confusing.Young-chun also had clear characteristics,” and explained the character development process in detail.

“I imagined the world that Yeong-chun sees.Isn’t he an unusual and unique person? Finding Yeong-chun’s preconceptions and deficiencies was an important process for me.It’s not a setting where he goes back to the past when he’s older, but a setting where he only becomes younger in the present, so the way he thinks was important when creating the character.”

He also said that he tried his best not to look like a new character.Park Jin-young explained, “In the first scene, Young-chun looks at himself in the mirror and observes his changed appearance.Since his body suddenly got better, everything feels amazing, and when he throws a punch, he thinks, ‘I’ve become like this.’ I tried to express it more like a child.”
Adding the role of Young-choon to his filmography, Park Jin-young has had the experience of playing both a dual role(The Devil Judge, Christmas Carol)and a dual role.He said, “Both are really difficult, but the dual role was more burdensome.The dual role is an imaginary character and starts from me, but the dual role had to embody the legendary teacher Shin Goo, so I couldn’t do it carelessly.I felt a considerable burden to make my own and the legendary chemistry my own.”
Also, after seeing the script that said ‘beastly body’, he lost 5kg and built up his muscles.Park Jin-young said, “Super strength and a beastly body.I thought that a beastly body would be one that showed off the muscles by losing fat.I made my body look good and filmed it, but when I saw the results, the power of the lighting was amazing.My muscles weren’t that much, but they filmed it so well.My satisfaction level was 60, but the directors filled in the remaining 40.”

“I worked out 5-6 days a week and had a cheat day once every two weeks.I went to extremes and got dizzy.I think I’ll be able to do it more wisely next time I have to work out.I divided my workouts into chest, shoulders, and abs.I decided that the most obvious part would be my abs, so I worked out my abs every day.”

In addition, he said, “I lost 10kg after being discharged in November of last year,” and “I lost 7kg after alternating between running and exercising every other day for three months.I started filming for tvN weekend drama ‘Unknown Seoul,’ which is currently airing, just two weeks after being discharged.That’s why I didn’t eat a midnight snack before starting work.I have to take care of myself, but my friends in the military would eat ramen in front of me like that.Still, when my fellow soldiers noticed that I was dizzy and tried to eat it, they would take the ramen away from me and stop me.There’s something called lantern time in the military, so I applied and read a lot of scripts,” he said, mentioning the efforts he made to make a comeback after his hiatus.

Park Jin-young invited his military friends who helped him diet(?) to the preview of ‘High Five’.He said, “After watching the movie, my friends said, ‘Who is that guy?’ ‘Bring my hyung,’” conveying the reactions of his friends who saw ‘Beastly Muscles’.He continued, “They saw me become a free person who gained 10 kg.They sent me pictures we took together when we went out and on vacation and asked, ‘Where did this guy go?’ My military friends are almost 10 years younger than me.They enjoyed the movie so much that I could guess, ‘Our movie will be liked by young kids too,’” he said, expressing confidence in the movie’s success.He also added, “My family loved it too.My father was proud because it was the first time he saw me act as a villain.My mother said, ‘Isn’ t it so fitting? ‘…She’s my mom after all(laughs).”
The action scenes between Jinyoung Park and other superpowered people in ‘High Five’ are so extreme that it makes his mother feel bad.The head-on confrontation with Taekwondo girl Wan-seo(played by Jae-in Lee)is the highlight of the movie.Jinyoung Park said, “I get hit a lot in the latter half.But actually, the one who hits feels more uncomfortable, and the one who gets hit feels more comfortable.In the latter half, I told(Jae-in Lee)that she could feel comfortable.I started feeling more comfortable once I started getting hit.”

While saying this, he said, “I worked hard as if I was really fighting, but since it was a scene completed with CG, I got dizzy while filming.It was a scene where I had to throw Wanseo from the air to the floor, and the hyungs wearing green tights held my hands and did it with me.I was really grateful, but it was so funny.” He also shared a funny anecdote, saying, “I had to look at Wanseo, but I kept seeing the hyungs, so I got dizzy.I remember filming while thinking, ‘I have to hold back(the laughter), I have to hold back.’”
“It’s a movie that’s been released for the first time in four years.As I said before, I had to act while imagining it on a green screen.I couldn’t guess how it would turn out, but when I saw the finished product, I thought, ‘Our movie is this big.’ I appeared in it, but it was really fun as a third party.Personally, it was my first villain role, and I was satisfied with it.That’s because I did the best I could at the time.If I were to play a villain again, I would like to try playing a realistic villain who has his feet on the ground.”

The movie ‘High Five’ will be released on May 30th.

Reporter Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com jhj@donga.com

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