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[INTERVIEW]  <Moorim College Girl> Yoo Geon

I'm sweating from the palm of my hand like the time I testified before the police.
Because Yoo Geon is running and jumping on the rooftop down the street which can be seen from a distance.
He even jokes as he pretends to fall and then not fall.
This young man with 10 million volts of energy wriggling through the body arrived safely on the ground.

"I like to engage in action-oriented activities. In 'Kidnapping Mz. Kwon' I loved to film the scene from the train.
Even when everyone else is cautious, saying not to move, I keep running around.
Even right now I'm scaring people by going up to such a place. Ha Ha."

Yoo Geon who brings this up himself has something reckless about him.
Like when he was in his teens pursuing a singing career in Korea then quitting and going back to the U.S.,
and like when he came back to Korea without any plans to be an actor.
He, who says due to his father's opposition his desire to act became even greater,
says even the hardships weren't hard.

"There were times when I came to Korea that I'd live here and there among my friends' places, and there was a time I got conned,
but because I met great friends, I was able to endure through.
When I had nothing and was feeling frustrated, my friends would say 'Let's at least play a minor role' and we auditioned through the internet,
which led to my meeting this current office. I meet that friend from time to time and we eat together but things have changed a bit.
Back then we couldn't really have meat, but now we eat without a second thought. Ha Ha.
My audition was seen, and I was able to go to my current management company,
and I was able to appear in 'Hello God' and it carved out a living and a the happy beginning of a 2nd act."

Since then he filmed one drama, and three movies.
In the drama 'Bad Couple' he played a dreamy younger man who was like an older woman's fantasy.
He played around on a movie set and joyfully like that the film 'Kidnapping Mz. Kwon' finished filming.
His role was a good-hearted kidnapper who made your head spin but had deep eyes like a character from an innocent comic book.
He will soon show us the image of an ice-hockey player in the film 'Moorim College Girl' which is waiting to be released.
All these events happened in less than a year.

"The word 'happy' is not enough to describe it. I just think that when I'm acting I am the happiest.
I am happy that I can meet my father and proudly tell him I'm doing these things these days.
Without any big reason or meaning, it's just good."

He's doing what he does because he likes it. 'Like it' and 'Do it' are the most simple and clear phrases in the world.
But in reality in between them lies much omitted anguish, and thinking, and determination.
Just like when he was running and jumping on the rooftop earlier.

"I try hard to be thoughtless. Actually my life has been decided recklessly too, like coming to Korea to be an actor.
Perhaps I have too many complicated things to think about in my mind alone, so I tend to want to make decisions in a short and simple way.
'Live Simply' is the moto of my life."

Yoo Geon, who is drinking banana milk and smilingly jokingly,
has already battled against the raging waves 5 years more then others,
and from him these detached answers are coming out.

"Those around me are telling me to be more aloof, saying 'Aren't you being too at ease and charming?'..
But in reality that is me. I don't become tormented when I don't come out well in a project, and wonder why couldn't I have done better or why did I only amount to this.
Instead I acknowledge my faults, then I can just focus on becoming better in the future."

At 25 years of young age, the actor Yoo Geon plans to keep up his recklessness.

"I tend to improvise all the time. To the degree that at times it may be dangerous.
At times I wonder what I'd be like in a few years. But if I live trying to keep up with plans then in chasing those plans my life might be missed.
And, that's no fun."

The ambitious spirit of recklessly living is the privilege of youth,
and right now Yoo Geon is fully enjoying such privilege.

* NOTE: for details please see Primiere issue #29 (10.1~15)!

Source: www.elle.co.kr