“Mr. Hak!” is a real craze. There is a villain character in ‘Bokssak Ssudaesuda’ that I strangely feel affection for. He is arrogant and does whatever he wants, but he can‘t help but look so lonely.

Actor Choi Dae-hoon played Boosang-gil in the Netflix series ‘Bokssak Ssudaesuda’, which created a sea of tears not only in Korea but also around the world. In the drama, Boosang-gil is a character who lives his life solely on his ‘spirit’ due to his blunt words and rude attitude, and is called ‘Dodong-ri Ssang-gil’.

He spent his youth with icy eyes and a fierce spirit, but he lived with only bribes and resentment as his true feelings around him. The image of the father who only knows ‘me’ and puts his family behind could also seem immature and selfish. Why did he do that? No one asked why.

As time passed, his self-deprecating words, “It was me, I was shit,” struck my heart. And he was a father, too. When it came to his children, he was a father who knew how to bow his head and lie flat. He lived his life shouting “Mr. Scholar” and praising his own dignity, thinking that he would be lucky if he fed his wife and children well, and somehow he resembled his father back then.

And Choi Dae-hoon properly breathed life into the character of Sang-gil. From his 30s to his 60s, Choi Dae-hoon lived 30 years as Sang-gil. Sang-gil, who lived stylishly while showing off all the coolness he had in his youth, was not rough around the edges, straightening his broad shoulders even more and putting his hands on his waist to make himself look bigger. As he got older, his stomach grew bigger and bigger, his gait became slower as if he had aged, and his eyes became more sharp than lively. He strangely didn’t hate Sang-gil, who was once a real person, and the more his eyes met, the more pitiful he became. Choi Dae-hoon didn‘t give him a chance to hate Sang-gil. He made him feel affectionate towards him.

While shouting “Mr. Hak”, he rolled his eyes and checked the other person’s reaction, and when he was nervous, he would yell even louder, but the way he would catch his breath always left Sang-gil with ‘room’ in his heart. These details about Choi Dae-hoon made him watch him. He didn‘t hate him, but made him wait. The sight of him growing old in an ugly way made him feel pitiful. He looked at his parents, who lived in the love of their children, with envy, and even got excited about riding a bike together with his wife for the first time. Even though I was annoyed, laughter burst out, and at the end, my nose was tingled with sadness.

That’s the power of Choi Max-hoon. He showed off every character as if he was wearing his own clothes, from acting as a psychopath that we‘ve never seen before through Jo Jin-man in Disney+’s ‘Trigger’, to everyday acting like the side profile of someone close to us through ‘I Was Fooled’, Sang-gil Bul. It was the same in his previous works ‘Model Detective 2’, ‘Thousand Won Lawyer’, and ‘Monster’. He also did his part well in special appearances such as ‘Those Who Are Fascinated’, and ‘The Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo’. He caught people‘s attention with his ‘Acting’, and showed a new side of himself by drawing attention to the characters he plays in each work. The power that makes us love and look forward to all the roles given to him, the trusted actor Choi Dae-hoon’s steps have left a life character as well as a rising star.

Meanwhile, Choi Dae-hoon has confirmed ‘The Wonderfuls’ as his next project and is busy filming. The Netflix series ‘The Wonderfuls’ is a superpower comic action adventure set in 1999, when doomsday theories were popular, in which neighborhood idiots who gain superpowers from an unexpected incident fight against villains who threaten the peace of Haesung City.

Choi Dae-hoon appears as ‘Son Kyung-hoon’, the official gambler of Haesung City. Expectations are high for Choi Dae-hoon‘s new face, who has superpowers that are flawed and fights against villains.

Reporter Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com misty82@donga.com

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