Jung Woo-sung in High Cut

75 May 17, 2012May 16, 2012

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Swoon. Okay, I know we’re probably gonna to get hit with a wave of “Mine!” claims on Jung Woo-sung, who’s looking sharp for High Cut magazine (ack, the beast I’ve created), but surely there’s got to be some sort of organized way to go about it. Swarming and elbows to the face are for beasts and Black Friday sales. Can’t we be civilized about this? Or do K-drama stars automatically invalidate such rules?

In any case, the accompanying interview apparently has a lot of marriage talk, like his speculation that junior colleagues Jo In-sung and Won Bin seem like they’ll marry late (though, really, at past thirty they’ve past the point of marrying early, so that’s not much of a secret, is it?). He also talks about his sense of humor, the kind of jokes he likes to crack, and, of course, his recent drama projects like Padam Padam, the fantasy-melo JTBC cable hit from earlier this year.

[SPOILER-ISH for PADAM PADAM] Jung revealed that originally, the end of the drama was supposed to feature Kang-chil’s death. Both Jung and the director wanted a less out-there, safer resolution, which seems to have coincided with the writer’s own change of heart. Despite Noh Hee-kyung explaining at the outset her intentions to kill him off, at one point she said, “I can’t kill Kang-chil” and reportedly agonized over it for weeks. To the relief of drama fans everywhere, I’m sure. [END SPOILER]

The shoot is featured in the new May issue of High Cut.

Via High Cut

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51 caitkara

May 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM

JWS - where to start? where to start indeed?? His long legs which you can't help but notice especially by American Amazon (all who stand above the domestic 5'5) eyes? Kind of a great conversation starter, I'd say.

However, more than those beautiful limbs of his, most apparent and most endearing, is just how versatile he is and so keen on his deliberations over the roles he takes on. Every experience since Musa (The Warrior) has been a distinct cinematic experience. He is like a man with many lives, who is so capable of loving his calling earnestly and with such fervor that he is so irresistible in that respect. To jump from Warrior (bridged by his other works) to TGTBTW, it has been like loving two men, then to Padam Padam to A Moment to Remember to ATHENA, no one production/script have been like the other. Of all Korean leading men, I am most familiar with him, and his co-stars from TGTBTW (Mr. Lee and Mr Song respectively) as I have been primarily a collector of foreign films (as opposed to television). He is my box of Bons Bons! LOL! Whatever role he has tackled over his career thus far, there is always that understated sense of humor that is mired in with either the seriousness or melancholy called for by a role. Notwithstanding his box office appeal, there is an absolute absence of desperation.

IMO - if one mixes the versatile Hugh Jackman with the sensibilities and the statesman -like caliber of Gregory Peck, you get JWS. He is in that group of actors who comes but once in a lifetime. There is something other worldly about him, of an era gone by that makes you pause and really admire the man. Additionally, he's been an outstanding, stellar ambassador of Korean cinema internationally. His "fly-by-my-pants" spontaneity, coupled with such a wickedly dry sharp sense of humor (without the sarcasm) makes him AND his limbs a breathlessly beautiful cinematic experience.

JWS is worthy of all the good in the world, and when award ceremonies really focus on the body of works of an actor, he would be walking home with awards hand over fist. Looking forward to all experiences of this man. More ways than one, in all that counts, JWS is a heady addiction.

Sweet anticipation EVERY time.