[英譯] Jeong Jihun, [I'm a Cyborg, But It's …
Reporter Ju Seongcheol/ May 19 2006
Ahead of advancing onto the steady stage in the world, the singer Rain
appears in the screen as the movie actor Jeong Jihun in a short while. Only
with the influence and status, Jeong Jihun is a hot rain to fall down upon
the Korean Movies 2006.
It was ??Rain?¯ on the stage, but call him ??Jeong Jihun?¯ now in front of
a camera. Rain regained his real name in the movie of the director Park
Chanwook . Chosen by the Time magazine as one of the most influential 100
persons in the world a while ago, Rain is showing a better movement forward
than expected. Just as the director Park Chanwook, who won the best award of
judges in the International Cannes Film Festival through , is in the van of
the Korean world of movies, so is Rain a great advanced entertainer who?¯s
directly outgrown the common senses and limits of the popular singers?¯
circles. This means, he is even beyond the existing Korean wave limited to
mostly Asia. In that sense, there is a special meaning in , in which the two
hottest vanguards from both worlds of movies and popular music met.
What are mostly the questions asked at overseas?
First of all, they are amazed that I am a Korean entertainer, not Japanese or
Chinese. They asked how I felt, considering I am one of the first Asians to
come this place. I was very pleased because they knew somewhat a lot about
the trend of Korean wave. It seems the Korea?¯s own uniqueness different
from Japan or China?¯s has been little by little acknowledged. Since few
were ignorant of the film director Park Chanwook, they showed a heated
interest in me, knowing that I would appear in his new piece of work. On the
other hand, how should I be greeted with all the shower of abuse later on, if
a nice one doesn?¯t come out? (He smiles.)
When did you felt something being actualized about the dream of advancing to
the stage of America which you had dreamt since long ago?
Even if you may be chosen as Time?¯s 100 and meet the press or relevant
persons in America, the advancement to America isn?¯t actualized right at
the moment. The thing is, if there is many a chance and if somebody had set
the table to eat, like senior Hwhang Jeongmin said (he smiles), you should
eat it deliciously. But may I digest it nicely? That?¯s what I am afraid. In
that sense, my personal biggest homework is language barrier. If I prepare
myself well for English, I guess I might let you have great news through
label sources that I have contact with by the time of next year. ?°The time
has passed by that Asian actors performed in action only in Hollywood,?±
said the persons concerned there. I heard them saying in their compliments
they wanted Asian actors and actresses performing in melodrama, or
furthermore in other genres. Of course, it won?¯t be easy for the flow to
change at a swoop, but the marketability seems to have been being allowed for
little by little.
At the party of the Time magazine, it became a topic that you met Jerry
Bruckheimer.
Rather, the person I sure hoped to meet in the party was George Lucas who was
my idol since childhood. Luckily I saw him in the face, but couldn?¯t greet
him due to a tremble. (He smiles.) In a liberal atmosphere of the spot, I
shared greetings with Will Smith. And I meet a lot of America?¯s significant
persons. By and by, I happened to be seat by seat with Jerry Bruckheimer.
Actually, I didn?¯t know who he was at first. The conversation with him
started like this: Where are you from? I am from Korea. What do you do? I am
a singer and participate in a movie, too. What do you do then? As I couldn?¯
t recognize him either, he was somewhat at a loss in his expression, ?°Don?¯
t I know you??± (He smiles.) To hear he was Jerry Bruckheimer, I felt
honored, thinking he is a maker of many blockbuster films of Hollywood I
like, such as . I introduced myself as ??Rain.?¯ He looked pleased too,
telling me he heard of me a lot. ?°Are Orientals originally as big as you??±
he said, ?°You feel different, compared with my usual thinking of an
oriental image only of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.?± And he handed over his
name card saying, ?°Your physique and voice is sure great. I wish we may
have any opportunity to have contact at any earliest.?±
In , you appear as the man who thinks that Lim Sujeong is a cyborg but is
okay, and you too as kind of a psychopath who believes can steal other person?
¯s personality or specialty. How closer do you think you are to the
character?
I might have felt myself up to par and somewhat deep in the character. But
exchanging talk with the director, I feel below par at times. So I keep
searching. There are times when the character the director thinks and mine
are different. But he would listen attentively to my opinions. Pretending to
be listening, which cuts he will actually use, I don?¯t know, though. (He
smiles.) I am interpreting in my own way. Having been in previous three
dramas in TV, I believed I had some kind of my own philosophy of acting. This
time, much of it went to pieces. Like soybean paste, acting seems better as
it is older and older. However hard I try, I cannot seem to beat the annual
rings of a tree, or the wisdom of age. Accordingly, I feel much ashamed of
being told the ??actor Jeong Jihun.?¯ Even if not adding the words ??I did
try very hard this time,?¯ ??I?¯d like to be such and such an actor,?¯ I?¯
d like this work to be a long-remembered one. Meanwhile, I am at least as
convinced as I can receive compliments of ??well-done.?¯
What is your own philosophy of acting you have had?
Ashamed to say my philosophy of acting, yet if I looked at the script given,
I just thought I should be that character myself and then tried hard.
Therefore, each chance I got, I would jot them down on the memo, what the
character?¯s peculiarity is, what habits he might have, his way of talking,
his style of dressing, and such forth. This time is different. Because he is
a psychopath and sometimes comes to senses like a normal person. And he is
very mild and good-natured. If others don?¯t understand them, they have
their own world. They are a little distant from the fixed ideas with which
people look at a psychopath.
Which scenes, not film titles, do you think are the scenes you?¯d choose, in
the films directed by Park Chanwook yet?
There are two that occur. (He smiles.) In , senior Shin Hagyun was going
home. Because of a certain device senior Song Gangho set up, he got
electrified and fell on the ground while opening the door, and flopped along.
The scene might have been just gone by, but I remember I laughed for a while.
Such a strange scene of emotion occurred to me. In , out of confinement, Choe
Minsik showed a long action scene in a horizontal long take, at which I was
really amazed. I know because I practiced exercise. Such a long take is not
easy either physically or emotionally. I was greatly amazed.
In this movie, do you have a desire to be remembered as such scenes?
Everybody might have such desire. But there is the continuity that the
director wants to draw along. So there if one has his own greed, things will
go astray. Certainly, there are good scenes for me this time. So, each scene
each cut, I shall try harder to be left in people?¯s memory. At times if
what the director thinks is different from mine, I feel I was overdoing
myself. In so doing, I have been adapting myself. The more I do acting, the
harder it seems to be.
This time too, is there an odd humor that is hard to be differentiated
between if one should laugh or if one should cry?
Yes. It is an intriguing scene. However, it goes very indifferently. There
are times of very difficult acting in which you shouldn?¯t make them either
laugh or cry. At first, I was sometimes at a loss, but compiled, it was more
often a better answer. In this movie too, the color of the director?¯s seems
to be very clear.
Despite that, are you getting adapted to the movie called romantic comedy?
In fact, I have little comprehension yet. (He smiles.) Once, I asked of the
director, ?°How should I answer them to the question of this film?¯s genre??
± He said, ?°How about calling it kind of romantic comedy??± The other
staff members have all thought that way yet. The movie is interesting. Not
that I do well, but that if I look at the good assistant actors and actresses
like senior Oh Dalsu, just their mere remark of words makes us laugh and my
partner Lim Sugeong is looking fun and cute. Each of the characters is
positive and sure very fresh.
In this coming movie, I was told you hairdo may be like a container for
boiled rice? which looks amazing.
I've given up on myself. (He smiles.) I am devoted to the movie. I want to
be out of the previous person Rain who I was and to be only into that given
character. I do acting because I really like it. After the movie, I think I
might find myself more matured. If I recall my days of debut, I never thought
I would come this high up here. On those days, I merely imagined I wished I
were to get any single award, regardless of first prize, encouragement award,
or just any whatsoever. (He smiles.) Now that I?¯ve completed all those and
am in front of a bigger one, I?¯ve gotten fearfulness about how to get along
at the corner of mind, too. The director said, ?°Isn?¯t it marvelous for us
to meet on each different path from other??± If one thinks he or she is up
to somewhere, there is another one up there to go each time. Hoping there
awaits us a good result ahead, I am positive things will turn out better.
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