By Producer (PD), Yim Soo Jung (SJ) & So Ji Sub (JS)
*Translated by Priscilla
PD: Yes, we’ll start the commentary for last episode. This time, we’ll do a better job. I’m the producer Lee Hyung Min.
JS: I’m So Ji Sub. (laughter)
SJ: I’m Yim Soo Jung. During the first episode, maybe it’s because we haven’t seen each other for so long, I couldn’t say much…
PD: Don’t just watch the story.
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PD: Galchi found out that MH might die. And Sukyung, though slow, she felt something like that too. That’s how episode 16 begins.
JS: I miss Galchi.
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PD: Many people say they like MH’s narration.
SJ: Yes.
JS: The writer wrote in narratives what I couldn’t express in words. You can feel the emotions well.
SJ: Since we can know MH’s inner feelings through the narratives.
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SJ: What was MH thinking back then? I’ve always been curious. I think he’s already made up his mind somehow?
JS: I don’t remember well, but his mind was already made up. Although he loved EC too much, he didn’t want to make her suffer. He was going to leave. He was very set on doing that.
SJ: But his feelings towards his mother…
He still didn’t know the misunderstanding about her.
PD: Yes, you’ll learn the secret later.
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PD: EC gets closer, but he can’t say anything. Episode 16 shows both of them unable to talk to each other.
SJ: Yes, we hardly talk.
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PD: I haven’t seen Ji Young for a long time. She really lost lots of weight.
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SJ: Towards the end, he really, really looked like a sick man. When I saw you at the shooting site too.
PD: He lost lots of weight too?
JS: I lost like 4 kilograms compared to the beginning episodes. Also, I don’t usually talk much, but when I was acting so seriously, I didn’t talk at all.
I couldn’t even joke around afterwards.
SJ: When you acted so seriously, not only the actors, but the director and every member of the staff, we all cried.
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JS: MH found a way to live, but he had already made up his mind.
PD: EC couldn’t call MH. At episode 16, many of the characters want to do so much but stop right there.
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PD: It seemed a little rushed, but by the coming of Ji Young, we learn that there is a chance MH could live. But because of his brother…
SJ: He could have lived, but the fact that he gave that up… that MH chose death instead. I think that made the viewers cry more.
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PD: I think it was very tough for EC too…
SJ: Yes.
PD: She couldn’t save him…
All she wanted was to stay right next to him.
SJ: Rather than thinking of something she could do for him… she could only think of staying right next to him.
But she couldn’t even call him. When they see face to face, she couldn’t open her mouth.
All she did was to wait for him.
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PD: This was sad too. This scene showed that they expressed their emotions through ‘feeling’ rather than through words.
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SJ: The other scene will come out where she’s telling Yune over the phone that she has something to tell MH, and MH is next to her… but after hanging up, she can’t say anything.
PD: That’s why later, she tells him that she loves him…
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JS: I haven’t seen mom for a long time.
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JS: All through-gout the filming, every time I met mother~ my acting gets better if I befriend them… but she avoided me. She thought she’d relax if she befriends me… She avoided me and she hardly talked to me.
PD: Ms. Lee Young ? told me that too. That it was better for MH too. That other characters were different, but MH had to be surrounded in that lonely mood. That she did it on purpose.
JS: Yes, she told me later on.
Personally, I wished we could talk a lot and learn from her. I regret this now, that we couldn’t do that during the shooting.
*[Audrey: Son!]
JS: Yes? (laughter)
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SJ: Look at his expression!
JS: I’m sleepy here.
SJ: Ha ha! You were sleepy?
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PD: When he was with Ji Young, he thought that was love, but it wasn’t. Because of his love towards EC he couldn’t feel anything for Ji Young anymore.
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PD: Can you tell we edited some scenes here?
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PD: EC, that song is in the OST. Have you listened to it?
SJ: Yes.
PD: It’s really nice. I feel that all the songs that are sang throughout this drama… it didn’t matter how well they sang, they were all very meaningful.
SJ: Yes…
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PD: As the drama progressed, I feel it became harder for the actors to express their emotions. They were facing so many tough situations.
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SJ: For me… the hardest parts started after EC found out that MH was dying. I found it more towards the end. I think this was the beginning of my worst pain.
Before this… how can I say this? In my heart, I thought of MH a lot. But I was being very mean to him so I could cut him out of my life. Even behind the scene, whenever I saw oppa*, I would be apathetic towards him.
JS: Ah, really? Was that the reason? I thought you didn’t like me, ha ha.
SJ: But even in the drama, as it progressed, both characters hardly spoke to each other. Much less than at the beginning.
JS: Especially in episode 16. From this scene on, we had almost zero spoken lines.
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PD: You offered a gum.
SJ: Yes, gum~ that’s just like MH.
PD: This was right after Christmas.
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PD: I think MH is thinking to himself that this is the last time they’ll see each other.
That’s true, right?
SJ: Yes, this was the last time, the last night.
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SJ: It’s snowing.
This was the last time it really snowed during the shooting of the drama. The first and last.
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JS: The 3 of them will get tired of waiting…(???)
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SJ: It’s so sad to think that this was her last time. It was her last time seeing MH… and later, the last phone call from him.
JS: He doesn’t confess his love even now.
SJ: Yes, even now. But he did over the phone. Still, it’s so sad when you think of it…
PD: Farewell itself it’s sad, regardless of how many times you see each other.
But I feel it’s because of this that EC couldn’t forget MH as time passed, and that she followed him.
JS: I really like this scene.
PD: Me too.
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PD: All of us, we were so tired that day.
SJ: Yes.
PD: It was around 2 to 3 a.m. we shot this, tired as we were.
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JS: Do you remember how many times you said “I love you”?
SJ: I didn’t know, but people who counted told me… 21 times?
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PD: Can I praise you, Miss Soojung, a little?
SJ: Yes…
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PD: Dramas are so full of love lines. And there was nothing too particular about this one. But I thought not many actresses would be able to express this line like you did.
JS: I think this was one of the first dramas where love was expressed like this.
PD: Because it’s not the beautiful words that touches the heart, but the every day word acted in such a way that reaches the heart.
If the words are too beautiful, I feel reality’s compromised.
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PD: I think you’re really in love…
SJ: Ha haaa…
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SJ: It breaks the heart to watch MH unable to say anything like that…
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JS: This is really their last time together…
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SJ: According to the script, we were supposed to meet once more…
I remember discussing that following scene a lot with you (PD). But that scene got deleted.
*[I won’t see her again.]
PD: We were saying how they met after MH said this.
SJ: That was a scene where MH was watching EC from afar, but she saw him. So she runs to him… MH avoids EC till the end.
PD: this scene too is sad…
SJ: And since that other scene got deleted, this became our last time.
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PD: Your mom’s here.
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SJ: Exactly… ha ha!
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JS: Yune…
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JS: It’s here MH hears a shocking truth.
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PD: The News revealed the ending already. I think the viewers would have enjoyed the drama a lot more without those spoilers.
SJ: Yes.
In a way, many could have been shocked too…
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PD: People talk about this scene too…
I think Yune acted so well this day.
JS: During the shots, I couldn’t look at Yune. I had to just look straight. So I couldn’t tell how well he acted. But I found out after I watched this on TV. He did really well.
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SJ: I think the lighting effects of this drama was great too.
MH’s dark, and Yune’s bright…
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PD: Soojung mentioned that there’s no evil characters in this drama. They hated each other so much, but in the end, they felt like brothers too, like in here. I think the writer did a great job. I thought it’s too common for a drama to have unreasonable evil characters.
Yune too, circumstances made him like that.
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JS: I knew this before I started the drama. But while shooting this scene… I was so shocked when I got the script. I was wondering how he’ll come to know this. Just like Yune said, MH fell into his own trap.
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PD: What we call a tragedy, a tragic destiny, is no one’s fault. Not MH’s, not Yune’s… Not even Audrey’s fault.
SJ: No one’s fault.
I think this differentiates this drama with the rest. And the reason it received so much love. It ended so long ago, but I feel there will be many people who will continue watching this 10 years from now, through the DVD. And that they will continue loving this drama.
I think this is the strength of this drama.
PD: On the other hand, classic tragic stories were like this. This is just not the modern style. It’s old fashioned tragedy. This days they show small evil characters. If you read old Greek tragedies, you’ll find a man losing his sight for his son… things like this that reminds us of destiny.
On the other hand, we can also say all this started because the babies were abandoned. The writer and I felt we wanted to give a statement regarding this problem in society. I wanted to make people think twice before abandoning their children. But I’m not sure if anyone did this or if they all just watched this as a drama.
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SJ: I think people got to look at the problem of adoption differently. I think our drama helped.
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PD: MH is such a pitiful man.
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PD: That’s fake snow, but it looks so real.
JS: I wasn’t going to reveal this, but you did!
SJ: I tried to keep this a secret.
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PD: He meets him mom here, right?
SJ: Yes, here’s when he hugs his mom.
JS: This was the first time he expressed a little bit of his true feelings towards his mother.
SJ: It was so heart breaking.
JS: Really, I was heart broken.
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PD: I’ve never been in that situation so I’m not sure, but I think MH, although he was dying… he was a happy man too.
JS: Oh yes, of course…
PD: It would have been nice if she finds out the truth, and he continues living.
JS: He didn’t get answers but at least MH got to ask his mom what he wanted to know.
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JS: This was such a shocker, one after another.
SJ: This was really shocking.
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SJ: Another painful thought was the idea that the children were suffering for the… parent’s sins? The feeling that the children were paying in their place?
I think this idea was underscored in the synopsis.
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JS: After I watched this scene, I felt that… this scene was so important but I honestly wasn’t pleased with my own acting. I felt so rushed… so I did a mediocre job here. I regretted this, plenty.
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PD: But in a drama, each scene is important, but it’s the entire harmony that’s more important. So far, I feel that MH, even in the eyes of the audiences, fell into character pretty well.
SJ: But it’s also true that in an actor’s perspective, after watching the same scene over… there are always things that only the actor can perceive.
JS: Regretful things.
SJ: Regretful things that bother us.
Me too, through this drama… since so many people watched this… I learnt so much but I also have lots of regrets.
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JS: In episode 16, no one’s happy.
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PD: I just mentioned a Greek tragedy (?) where the stage is filled with dead bodies in the end, and the main character’s walking holding a dead body too… But that’s too cruel of an ending.
Our drama’s a tragedy too. But the writer and I, we wanted to create a different type of tragedy, and we really worked hard at that.
JS: I’m really curious. So many people wanted this to have a happy ending. Were you ever tempted to change the ending towards mid-way of the drama?
PD: We shot the ending at the beginning…
JS: But still…
PD: I don’t think it’s such a good idea to change the ending to please the viewers. But I think sometimes the direction of a drama may be changed if the writer and the actors agree. But this drama’s main point was the tragic ending. From the beginning, we wanted to make a drama where both main characters die. That’s how this drama was born.
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PD: How great it would be to have someone who loves me so much!
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PD: MH realized his mom didn’t really abandon him. And EC confesses her love towards him.
SJ: Looking at that, I’d think MH was the happiest character in the last episode.
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PD: The basketball court. Many people liked MH & Yune in this scene.
JS: Oh, he’s cute!
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PD: MH came to Korea to get even with his mom. This is the scene where MH retraces his steps since then. We’ll see too many retrospective scenes, but we couldn’t help it. The climax was coming so the emotions were all at their pick.
Here, MH caused Yune to get into a car accident.
JS: No, I didn’t.
PD: That’s right.
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PD: The line regarding ‘after life,’ that can mean after ‘re-birth’ but when they die, that too is the ‘after life.’ So this has a double meaning. The netizens wrote so much about this.
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JS: While shooting this, I was thinking this will be the last time I’ll see her.
PD: Yes.
JS: I wonder if she thought of that while shooting that scene. I’m curious.
PD: What do you mean?
JS: That I’m seeing mother for the last time, and I’ll be leaving towards my death… And the audiences too… did they know?
PD: In a way, our drama left many unanswered questions. So many viewers in their forties, they couldn’t understand...
Even this scene, after he walks outside, he was standing in bright day-light with the sun towards him. The mother could have easily felt something strange and looked back… But since we didn’t explain this in words, people easily made up their own interpretations.
It’s open to interpretation?
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SJ: In the script, she wasn’t saying “you want eggs or not?” And the line “It’s hot,” that too…
PD: It was written “take your hands off.”
Sometimes the actors would change the lines according to their feeling. At least the good ones.
SJ: But what’s more painful about this is that she was acting as if she actually cared for her son. She was never warm towards MH before, but she was a little different this day.
PD: If you look at it positively, that is.
SJ: But this was so painful…
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PD: Yes, this was one of the ‘best scenes,’ right?
Mr. Jisub, can I praise you a little?
I’ve been working in the entertainment business for around 11 years. I thought I was witnessing the greatest acting in the making.
JS: But I, as the actor… I’m not fully satisfied.
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JS: When I was shooting that scene, I thought I was completely into character, but looking back now… I don’t know… I feel I could have expressed a little more feeling… a little more sorrow. I should have done it a little slower…
PD: But it’s always good to be able to find your own weaknesses.
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PD: Ouch, this too was sorrowful.
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JS: I had no spoken a line, but the narration… just like I mentioned before… expressed so much of the emotions I couldn’t speak. I think this touched the hearts deeper.
PD: Besides, spoken lines would be out of place in this situation.
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PD: That back posture too, it was really something…
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SJ: Another ‘best scene.’
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PD: MH had so much money, but he hardly used any.
JS: I don’t even know how much I got.
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PD: Mr. Shingoo’s funny, right?
SJ: Galchi!
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SJ: Mister Pervert, ha ha!
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JS: I think MH was a bad guy.
PD: Why?
JS: Because he leaves after telling her he loves her, making her suffer more.
PD: But you wouldn’t expect him to leave without saying it?
JS: If he already made up his mind to die… He’d be at peace since he told her that he loves her. But for EC, after hearing that… how could she go on living?
PD: How does EC feel about this?
SJ: I…
PD: You think it was OK as long as it was just “I’m sorry…”?
SJ: ?
JS: She came after MH because he told her “I love you.”
SJ: Yes, that’s right, because he told her “I love you.”
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PD: The kimchee scene was nice too.
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PD: It was freezing cold this day.
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PD: We tried to come up with a nicer death than through motorcycle, but they didn’t work. But at least this was emotionally charged.
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PD: This is just a drama. I think if this happens in real life, it would be awfully sorrowful.
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PD: I really like this kind of lines. When he said ‘good son,’ he was actually referring to MH.
JS: Because in the drama, the mother never finds out.
PD: The mother was blessed with a good son who saved her other son, it’s something like that.
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PD: Hee hee, she’s leaving because she’s upset.
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PD: EC’s hair color at the beginning was the same. But when we straightened it, it gave a totally different feeling. I haven’t watched this for a while, and I feel it was really well done.
SJ: If we were to interpret this, EC is returning back to Melbourne, Australia, to the places where she first met MH. And I was also surprised to see that MH riding on the motorcycle at the end, he had this same hair style.
PD: That’s because MH felt it would be better this way…
SJ: That’s what makes me feel both of them are alike, like coming towards the same ending… I thought it was nice.
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PD: The person standing there… that’s EC’s stylist, right?
SJ: Yes. Back then when you told me how you wanted to do this, I thought it was… how can I explain? Nice…
I thought you were going to just replay past scenes in her mind, but you said you wanted to make EC watch ‘her past’ passing by her.
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PD: There are times when a ‘fantasy’ scene can be more appropriate.
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PD: Here is where you asked me: “Do I cry here or not?” I think you were having such a hard time already you didn’t want to cry.
This is another scene I like a lot.
SJ: When I was shooting this scene, I cried so much before. I was standing in front of the lake, practicing, and suddenly I started crying a lot. The first time I was here, I was cold, and feeling dirty, surrounded by garbage… but on this day, the weather was so bright and clean… The sun was so warm and peaceful. I thought of MH here…
PD: You were really into it on this day.
SJ: I cried so much my eyes were swollen. The setting director was worried.
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JS: Wasn’t it difficult to shot this at the beginning?
SJ: I worried a lot. Will this match with the rest of the story?
We discussed this a lot, right PD?
PD: We thought of shooting the ending in open fields too…
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PD: But after much thought, we figured MH’s tomb was among foreigners… We thought he’d want to run as far away from EC as possible. Although he was thrown away to a foreign land where he grew up like a trash, that’s the only place that can receive him in the end. It’s heart-wrenching to think that he’s buried among foreigners. I thought this was sorrowful enough, but the emotions got deeper once we saw the tomb. I too felt sorrowful.
JS: I didn’t get to see this. I was buried bellow.
SJ: I mentioned this during the interview too, but among the many beautiful looking tombs, “The Korean Cha Moo Hyuk is sleeping here”… this particular tomb felt so empty. So I felt that Cha Moo Hyuk in his entirety… he was such a sorrowful man. I was sorry I wasn’t nicer to him while he was alive… I thought of those things. So even in this scene, I cried a lot before starting to shoot.
PD: Beside, I’m always rushing everyone. When I feel the ‘mood’s right’ I don’t care about anything else.
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PD: This is such a sad story, but… I hope people won’t get the message that the end of love is death… I think that would be awful.
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I had thought of the following section even before we started filming. This section shows the love between EC & MH, but it’s also about the individual Cha Moohyuk. I wanted to capture images of him since he was born till he dies. But I couldn’t take too many still pictures. So, many of these here, they’re not really still portraits, but they look like.
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PD: Mr. Jisub, your eyes speak thousand words… how do you do it?
JS: Since I don’t get many lines, at least my eyes have to say something…
While filming, this was the toughest part. I had to express my emotions through my eyes instead of through words. This was very tough and I felt burdened. I was really stressed because of this.
PD: I think you fell right into character…
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PD: This was such a sad story that the editor tried to include as many happy scenes with EC as possible. The editor tried very hard, since this was awfully sad.
JS: “I’m Sorry, I Love You…”
I thank you for loving us…
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