Sunday, August 24, 2008

[08.08.20][news] Eric: Those abs aren't mine

The hero of KBS2 drama Strongest Chil Woo (which ended on 19 Aug), Mun Jung Hyuk, has revealed that the washboard abs shown in the drama are not his.

On 19 August, the cast of Strongest Chil Woo joined a group of Japanese fans in Gangnam, Seoul, to watch the last episode of the drama. When asked by the fans, "In the drama, the abs that we saw during your transformation into an assassin, are they CG effects?", to which he said, "It's definitely not CG."

However he soon added, "The last episode has aired anyway, I'll tell you the truth. In actual fact, during the filming, we actually found 6 substitutes with very good bodies, but in the end we found a suitable substitute among our stuntmen instead. To the 6 kind people whose help we requested for, thank you very much."

Besides the Japanese fans, many members of the media were also present to spend the evening with Mun Jung Hyuk.

With regards to his thoughts about the filming process, he said "It is with the hard work of the cast and the filming crew that we managed to finish filming the drama. Everyone has worked really hard, thank you very much."

When asked about his relationship with co-star Gu Hyesun, he commented "Actually before Hyesun dressed up as a man for her character, we were still very polite to each other and still using formal language, with little interaction. But once she got into her male disguise, she really looked like a pretty boy, and when I saw her all I wanted to do was to give her a knock on her head. So I asked her if I could do that. After that we got more comfortable with each other, and we started to speak informally to each other. Now she's just like my little sister."

The last episode of Strongest Chil Woo garnered its highest ever ratings of 14.7% (AGB), and the drama is expected to start airing in Japan soon.


Source: asiaeconomy
Chi trans: 丢丢@情投E赫
Eng trans: midnightgirl13@shinhwabiz

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