I remember some time ago, when I was chatting with people about Kim Soo Hyun's acting skills in "It's Okay, Although I'm Mentally Ill", my friend also said that my memory of him still stayed in "You Who Came From the Star", and then I had a particularly meaningful thought in my heart. Let me tell you how old he was when he acted in "My Love From the Star", and now Kim Soo Hyun is so old.
At this age, the more seriously he tries to figure out the role and the script, the more different it can bring us. Because I said that with the growth of age and experience, the transformation that can be reflected in him will eventually become more and more obvious. I remember that I did a vlog before called "Broken Cocoon into a Butterfly." The meaning of this vlog was because of his transformation, because Kim Soo Hyun, in my mind, is indeed like a beautiful and charming butterfly. I am not always attracted by its wings and fluttering among the flowers, and I always look forward to its every arrival. But we have never forgotten that we have been paying attention to, loving and supporting this butterfly since it was a chrysalis.
Then "It's Okay Although It's Psychotic" is his first starring work after he was discharged from the army. The reason why the role of Wen Gangtai was so profoundly expressed by him is probably because Kim Soo Hyun had a lot of influence on his life and his aura before and after his disappearance. The real experience is integrated into the joy and ups and downs of Wen Gangtai.
At first, as an audience, I didn't have the courage to take a close look at the character of Wen Gangtai. After all, the states, emotions, and experiences he showed at times were too similar to his own life. However, as the actor Kim Soo Hyun, who plays Wen Gangtai, says, it is the most basic requirement for him as an actor to observe the characters in detail and to perform accurately.
So the reason why he chose to play this role at the beginning was because he liked the character in plain words, but in a deeper way, it was because he was able to develop strong empathy with the character in the process of understanding the character. Although I don't know what Kim Soo-hyun's life was like before he became famous, at least I know that he was also popular, so what he and Wen Gang-tae can achieve is also the empathy of ordinary people. In the process of observing this role, he must have felt the same as us and felt that although this role does not seem to be special, what he only has is that those who seem to be special do not have, such as persistence, perseverance, forbearance, and ordinary charm.
But it may not only be because of his age, he may also have experienced something during his military service that made Kim Soo-hyun understand life and reality more deeply, so that he could use it in his performance to reflect the character's words and deeds. In short, looking back at every role he has played in the past, most of them were achieved by giving a certain percentage of himself, so when he reaches the age of 30, when his experience is deeper, he may only invest in this aspect. more, but also better interpreted.
I believe that the thirty-two-year-old Kim Soo-hyun has opened up a new path for himself in the field of actors with more and more assertive ideas. When most people still look at him with the eyes of "children" many years ago, he doesn't know how many well-known classic images he has used his grown-up acting skills to create. Although the genre of "It's Okay, It's Okay" is not popular, with Kim Soo Hyun's vivid and wonderful interpretation of the role of Wen Gang Tai in the play, I also hope that from now on, as an actor, Kim Soo Hyun's expectations for the outside world can be as he wished back then, because Kim Soo Hyun, who is 30+, really makes people see his more mature and serious side as an actor than in the past.
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