Fashion magazine Arena Homme Plus has released a pictorial of actor Cha Woo Min.

Cha Woo Min caught everyone‘s attention with his role as ‘Ji Sun Woo’, the illegitimate child of a conglomerate chairman in the drama ‘Treasure Island’.

Cha Woo Min was a student who diligently studied swimming in middle school and judo in high school. He began dreaming of becoming an actor when he was in his second year of high school. It was when he searched for ‘Theater and Film Department’ at a PC room he went to with a friend. Cha Woo Min said that he had always been curious about movies before he even thought about becoming an actor. “My mother is a cinephile. She showed me a lot of different movies since I was in elementary school, and now our tastes in movies are exactly the same. Thinking back now, there are movies that I wonder, ‘Why did she show me this movie back then?’.”


Cha Woo-min also introduced a scene from ‘Treasure Island’ that he felt proud of. “The scene where I ride a motorcycle. Rather than saying that I was satisfied with my acting, it was a filming where I felt that I overcame myself. When we were practicing before filming, I fell off the motorcycle and got badly injured. I wasn’t used to operating the gear, so the front wheel lifted when I first started off. My entire right arm was badly scraped when I fell. For a while, it was difficult to even look at the motorcycle, but what can I do? I had to film it anyway. I was shaking inside, but I overcame my fear and filmed this scene.”


Cha Woo-min said that he is at a time when he should be building up his filmography, and that he is grateful for being able to take on roles regardless of genre. I was curious to know what kind of actor he thinks a “good actor” is. “Isn’t it an actor who smells like a person? My father always says something. No matter what job you have, you have to be a person first. I should be a loyal actor as a professional, but I also want to be a great person as a person. When I look up interviews with actors I want to be like, they all say the same thing. An actor is just one of many jobs. I think a good actor is someone who knows how to keep that line.”

Cha Woo-min’s pictorial can be found in the April issue of Arena Homme Plus.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com reporter projecthong@donga.com

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