Kim Hyung-seo “Busan dialect - comedy was more difficult than action” (The Fiery Priest 2)

Actor Kim Hyung-seo (Vivi) confessed that comedy was more difficult than the dialect and action.

At the production conference for SBS‘s new Friday-Saturday drama ‘The Fiery Priest 2’ held at the SBS building in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 8th, Kim Hyung-seo confessed, “The dialect was okay because I’m from Changwon. The action scene was also my first time, but finding the comedy code was more difficult than that.”. He said, “Once I found my comedy code, I ended up participating in ‘Gag Power Show’. It was so much fun. We filmed while laughing out loud. It was so funny that we couldn‘t look each other in the eye.”

The two villains Seo Hyun-woo and Sung Joon also mentioned the effort they put into their characters. Seo Hyun-woo, who plays Nam Du-heon, the chief prosecutor of Busan Southern District Prosecutors’ Office, said, “I thought villain roles were really lonely because you build them up all by yourself. I felt a lot of loneliness,” and explained, “I focused on less flashy roles than the villain roles I‘ve played so far. I focused on realism in order to express someone who seems like a real person.”

Sung Joon, who plays Kim Hong-sik, the vice-leader of a drug organization, said, “I lost weight to look sharp on the outside. I thought Kim Hong-sik would be one of the worst guys that could happen in Korea. I thought a lot about how to make people believe that he is a very dirty person.”

‘The Fiery Priest 2’, which returned five years after the blockbuster first season, is a collaborative investigation drama about Kim Hae-il, a passionate priest with anger management issues who is a priest during the day and the boss of the angel group for ‘Bellato’ at night, as he goes to Busan to fight against the country’s biggest drug cartel. The first broadcast on SBS at 10 p.m. on the 8th (Friday) as a follow-up to ‘The Judge from Hell’.

Jung Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com
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