Moon So-ri said that her thoughts on the spring, summer, fall, and winter of life changed while acting out Ae-soon‘s middle-aged and elderly years. Just as countless days were “spring” for Ae-soon, Moon So-ri said calmly, “I think I can live as if we meet each other every spring,” just like the poem Ae-soon writes in the play.

“As Ae-soon sends off the ceremony, she says, ‘That kind of luck won’t come,’,‘There were hard times, but I‘ve never been lonely,’,‘Thousands of days were spring.”Everyone has difficult times and tough days in life. And some people deny their own lives. Ae-soon remembers her life as a spring day, and I think it’s amazing that she can say that.”

Moon So-ri realistically portrayed the tender Ae-soon, who is warm-hearted even in a difficult world, from the lovely appearance of a literary girl to the image of a mother with strong vitality. However, for her, it was “more difficult than calculus”.

“It was as difficult as a ‘mission’ to express the depth of life through one character. It‘s hard for us these days to imagine mothers in their 20s. I wanted to reduce that gap and convey it well. We too are dazzling in the spring and summer of our lives, but become ordinary mothers when fall and winter come. I thought that even a mother who seems ordinary should have the essence of the ‘desque girl’ Ae-soon.”

Moon So-ri said that while acting as Ae-soon, “Mrs. Lee Hyang-ran, her own mother, came to mind.” It’s because my mother, born in 1952, and Ae-soon, born in 1951, resemble each other in many ways.

“My mother risked her life to raise me while running a street food stall. She raised me without any lack of money, even though she got married early like Ae-soon. I was the first daughter, so I received a lot of love and grew up. Although we weren‘t well off, I think I grew up without any lack. I cried when I thought of my parents who worked hard their whole lives to raise their children.”

Just as Ae-soon had Geum-myeong, who was her life’s gift and her world, Moon So-ri also had a daughter. When her daughter said, “I enjoyed watching it,” she felt like she had gained the world. In this way, Moon So-ri was an “ordinary mother and an ordinary daughter.”

“Among Ae-soon‘s lines, there’s one that says, ”Even if you‘re my grandchild, I don’t like it when you make my daughter lose her mind.“ That was the most memorable. Even if she is a pretty granddaughter, I think I would hate it if my own child made my daughter, whom I raised with great care, suffer. My mother said similar things to my daughter. While she loved her granddaughter, she said, ”Don‘t make it too hard for your mother. If our daughter suffers too much, I would be upset too.“

Even that mother nags Moon So-ri once, saying, ”Cut down on drinking.“ Moon So-ri, who is known as a ”hard drinker“ in the entertainment industry, recently appeared on Shin Dong-yup’s YouTube show, ”Salty Brother,“ and said, ”I magically quit drinking abruptly.“

”In colloquial terms, I was really “sweet” back then. I quit drinking for 30 years, starting when I was 20. It‘s the feeling of not having any regrets after a true love and breakup. I called Dong-yup after the show. I told him, “You are like Director Lee Chang-dong in my life.” “I became the most important person after Mom and Dad.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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