Moon Woo-jin (16) is showing considerable presence both on the small screen and the big screen.

He is not only playing the role of an adult actor in his younger days, which was mostly played by child actors, but is also taking on an axis of the work through his independent character. He is expected to continue the lineage of child actors with his solid acting skills, to the point that people call him a “prodigy in acting.”

Moon Woo-jin left a strong impression in the Disney+ drama “Trigger,” which is garnering much attention starring Kim Hye-soo.

In the drama, which contains the stories of investigative reporting program PDs, he appeared as a mysterious teenager who cruelly kills a stray cat with the youthful appearance of a middle school student, immediately capturing the attention of viewers.

He portrayed a character with two sides, such as appearing as an innocent model student on the outside, but committing shocking incidents at night, with his own unique acting. Thanks to this, he gained attention no less than Kim Hye-soo and Jung Sung-il and was recognized as a ‘promising seedling’.

Moon Woo-jin, who will be a high school student this year, debuted as the child actor of Park Seo-joon in ‘What‘s Wrong with Secretary Kim’ in 2019 and went on to appear in ‘Come and Hug Me’, ‘Beauty Inside’, ‘The Fiery Priest’, ‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’, ‘Diva on an Uninhabited Island’, ‘To My Harry’, etc.

Moon Woo-jin is determined to make his name known through the movie ‘The Nuns’ (Director Kwon Hyuk-jae), which will be released on the 24th.

He plays a possessed spirit in the occult film that tells the story of nuns performing an exorcism to save a boy possessed by an evil spirit. He played the role of Hee-jun, who is possessed by a powerful evil spirit and suffers.

In the movie, he perfectly portrays a character who struggles and cries, “Just kill me,” in extreme pain, but has a strong will to live deep in his heart.

Song Hye-kyo, who worked with him, praised him, saying, “I was surprised at how he was able to digest and express himself so well at such a young age,” and “There were many times when I felt thrilled when I looked into his eyes and acted. I found myself saying, ”He‘s so good at acting,“ and ”He’s cool.“



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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