VG: Did you practice high jump a lot? When
we see you win on “Let’s Go Dream Team” do you think it’s really as good
as a player/athlete’s standard?
Minho: I started practicing regularly for 1.5 months before filming. I thought the 1
st until 2
nd
second try was easy, but this one is so different from what I did on
Dream Team. High jump players do backward jumps, so this is really hard.
High jump can be said to be a very hard sport among trackfield events,
and one of the events that players avoid.
VG: Kang Taejun has a lady-killer character, does the character match the lead’s [Minho's] character?
Minho: First, I’ll say that it’s about 50%,
I have a lot of similar characteristics with him, but my relations with
my family and people are different. I watched the Japanese drama and
tried to find the original (T/N: the manga, I guess?), I still can’t say
that his genuineness, manliness, look, and naturally cool character are
totally similar with me. After all, I just want to express and follow
that character well.
VG: What kind of look will you show that makes you different from Oguri Shun who had the same role in the Japanese drama?
Minho: Because the person who acts the role
is different, so the way I’ll show it will obviously be different. You
can distinguish my different feels of the character from Oguri Shun.
This talk will only be proven as you see the broadcast on 15
th of August! Haha.
VG: SHINee’s Minho, Actor Minho, and Minho’s photoshoots filming like today, which one is the most difficult role?
Minho: It’s acting. I can just show myself
when I sing and dance, but in acting, it’s not my real self that I show
but what I must show is another person’s character which is as natural
as possible, it is difficult.
VG: If you could pick on any kind of work as you wish someday, what kind of movie [is it] that you wish to to try?
Minho: Action or Quentin Tarantino’s noir
movies. I want to try films whom Men like, but not in my image right
now, maybe a while after will be possible.
VG: Talking about image, do you pursue a
‘pleasant young man’ image? Like, when you go to piercing shops
sometimes, and the staff asks you to pierce, but you immediately get
agitated and cut them off saying “I’m not doing it!”
Minho: (Shocked) Woah! ……It was only once. I
was actually curious. Members wear a lot of piercings. Well it’s not
that I’m going to make a ‘pleasant young man’ image but I think putting
something on [my] ears like earrings doesn’t suit me somehow. *For once,
the stylist didn’t pierce her ear, so she asked me to look for her
magnetic piercing, as expected, I felt weird as I saw it on the mirror.
Furthermore, it got lost in less than one hour*. So the conclusion is,
I’m not a ‘pleasant young man’ it can’t be helped anymore. Haha.
Credit to minhogoon at livejournal for the translations.
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