What does it mean to live as Jung Woo-sung, not anyone else? Express actors and entertainers who have kept the top of the list for 25 years, entertainers who are also eager, icons of eternal youth, and artists who exert good influence on society through their beliefs.
Each of them will recall and retain Jung Woo-sung (46) in a different sense, but the words that penetrate all of them are 'will' and 'effort'. Jung Woo-sung, a top actor or top star, who tries to write the name that no one can have. He will be a producer for the director's debut of a junior filmmaker (Do not forget me) and will give strength to inform the truth of the Sewol ferry disaster (the day, the sea narration) and break down busy times to travel to refugee camps around the world. He is willing to do those things that are impossible without a hard will and commitment.
For such Jung Woo-sung, this question may not be reasonable. “Are you a good person?” The movie Innocent Witness (released on the 13th) borrowed the lines of the characters in the play and handed him a question mark that he carefully threw. “I think this is the right thing for someone who is trying to be a good person, and I feel like I’m the same person as the character in the movie.”
In Innocent Witness, Jung Woo-sung plays a lawyer who entered a large law firm while working as a human rights lawyer in Minbyeon. It is a story in which Sunho, who has been defending a suspect in murder, meets and interacts with Ji-woo (Kim Hyang-gi), a high school student with autism spectrum disorder, the only witness at the scene of the incident. Sunho, who tried to prove his client's innocence by setting Ji-woo in court with Innocent Witness, looks back at himself who compromised with reality through pure Ji-woo without prejudice, and Ji-woo learns to communicate with the world as he gets closer to Sunho.
It’s a simple story, but it’s warm to look at relationships, and I want to believe that very small good will can change the lives of individuals and the world. Jung Woo-sung, who recently met at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, said, "I heard Feelings healing through the relationship between Ji-woo and Sunho." "I wanted to shoot as soon as I covered the scenario."
Is it because I was led by my mind? Jung Woo-sung seems more comfortable than ever in the movie. It is natural that he feels the same Feelings and reacts to what he feels rather than acting with his broken power. It makes us forget the intense impressions shown in recent films such as Inang (2018), Steel Rain, The King (2017), Asura (2016), Madame Himduck, and Hansu of God (2014).
“Innocent Witness has confirmed the desire for daily acting, and so-called “sen characters” have to be designed and intended for acting. But she didn’t have to. She had to follow the Feelings of the ambassador and the situation, and she could enjoy it without difficulty. There was a lot of room to express Sunho by putting it on the actor Jung Woo-sung. "In the scene where Sunho watched the TV with his father and tilted the makgeolli glass or talked about marriage problems, he said," I felt surrogate satisfaction by sharing the affection of the rich man I have never experienced. "
Director Lee Han said during the first filming. "Mr. Woo Sung was a good man." Jung Woo-sung is filled with the appearance of Sunho, who is becoming a good person with his beliefs again. Jung Woo-sung, who imagined the future of Sunho, which was not on the screen, seemed to be his own. "Soonho found his true self through Ji-woo. I think I’ll live a life that will complete myself.”
Like Sunho, who gave up a lot in exchange for choosing his beliefs, Jung Woo-sung often encountered unexpected misunderstandings. Since he said that our society should embrace Yemeni refugees in Jeju Island last year, he has been a favorite actor and has been criticized for many bad things. “I was told that I was an anti-actress,” Jung Woo-sung said. “There is nothing natural about what I’ve been given, and so is the image of favor. I appreciate it, but I don’t want to dwell on what I’ve lost. Instead, I need to make values solid. If there is a conflict, I think it takes enough time to acknowledge the other person’s opinion and reach an agreement.”
Jung Woo-sung started to worry about the social responsibility of the actor in his 20s. In 1997, he became popular with the movie Beat at once, but when he heard that the teenage students who watched the movie had smoked along with his brother, he confessed, "I thought it was scary to be a movie." “If I can’t see how my profits and the character influences society, then I can call it a worthy actor, and fortunately I was early when I was a child.”
The Sewol ferry disaster in 2014 had a big impact on the actor's active voice not only on his movements but also on political and social issues, and he vowed not to be sinful and silent as an older generation. Jung Woo-sung said, "The past era has injected strange treatment into the citizens who are faithful to eating and living people's mouths." "The word 'if you do well' seems to be a very love expression, but if you live alone, is it a rich world?"
So he constantly asks himself: His question is not to answer, but to find a way: “I lived alone at a young age, and I was poor, so I didn’t finish school properly. I had no connections to my growth, so I had to prove myself to the world entirely alone, and I needed to objectify myself and I had a habit of asking myself questions. I think that habit is working well as I’m getting older and having a career.”
After the release of Innocent Witness, the audience will meet with Jeon Do-yeon last year and the new film, Animals Wanting to Grab a Jeep. "I have not yet exceeded 10 million, so there is an infinite possibility for an actor named Jung Woo-sung," he joked and laughed, and finally asked him, "Are you happy?" “I don’t think that Happiness index should be 100, because happiness exists even if it is 10.”