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[interview] Park Min-young, "I experienced the worst of emotions"

 

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"Queen for 7 Days" is based on a Josun historical tragedy about an unfortunate queen who was on the throne for 7 days before she was dethroned. "Queen for 7 Days" deals with Queen Dan Kyeong (Park Min-young), Joong Jong (Yeon Woo-jin) and Yeon San (Lee Dong-gun).

 

Park Min-young played the key role in this drama. She cried all throughout the drama and poured out her emotions. We met Park Min-young for an interview last week.

"I knew I was going to go through pressure and stress from the very beginning. I have never played such a sad role before. In "Sungkyunkwan Scandal" a girl cried because she faced hardships and just because she was a girl but in "Queen for 7 Days", the queen cried for her country and her family. I saw it as a big challenge because I've never been through depths like this".

 

There was a lot of work to do. The connection between Chae-kyeong and her childhood had to be there for her to fall in love 'by destiny'. Park Min-young held onto the script until the end of the drama and she had some outstandingly long lines to memorize.

 

"I had a few difficult scenes and one of them was when Lee Yeok (Jong Jong) was restored and explained to me what I had to do. Then Lee Yoong (Yeon San) appeared suddenly and I had to stall for time. I had to come up with an 8-page line then by myself. It may have looked like a lie but too much of Chae-kyeong's emotions were mixed in the lines to be a lie. It was also a way to overcome a crisis. I couldn't sleep all the way to Buyeo where we filmed it and memorized the lines. Thankfully, there was no NG while the cameras rolled. I almost broke down because the most stressful scene was out of the way".

 

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Park Min-young's standard of choosing a drama is the script. She then pictures how the script would look visually and she imagines what her character must be like. Then she wonders if there is something she can put out there as an actress and achieve something in return. She doesn't check who her co-stars are or care for her image. She claims she wants to do something more fun in her next drama.

 

"I think I've cried 3 years worth of tears in "Queen for 7 Days". Now I want to do something that'll make me laugh 3 years worth. I love comedy, but I've mostly been in serious roles so I forget that I used to do comedy. I think it'll be alright now to be in another comedy. I feel more comfortable that way".

 

Park Min-young claims "Queen for 7 Days" was like acting class. The viewing percentage wasn't that great but as an actress it was a difficult challenge and she achieved a lot from it. She also claims she gave it her best shot.

 

"I feel like I've been through hard-training. I told the writer I felt like I was in acting camp. "Queen for 7 Days" fermented my acting skills and I am grateful. I can also say that I did my best; I slept one or two hours a day and held onto my script and never once overlooked anything. The catharsis I feel is bigger than the physical and mental exhaustion I've experienced. I would love to show this to my daughter one day".

 

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Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching???

 

 

With all the new premieres, ongoing series, and backlogged shows on my plate, I sort of feel like it’s closet-cleaning time and I’m sorting through a big pile of possessions, figuring out what to keep and what to toss, and wondering how I amassed such a collection in such a short period of time. I could’ve sworn I was all caught up a moment ago! It’s like hoarding, the K-drama version. Is the cure… just watching them all? â€“javabeans

 

 

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  • Seven Day Queen: Lately I’ve been taking a little break from dramas I wasn’t recapping, and I’m a little surprised that this is the show that’s re-sparked my drama watching. But I was hooked from the first few minutes, and though I’ve only seen the first few episodes, I can already tell that this is going to be a masterpiece. Yeon Woo-jin and Park Min-young are adorable and heart-wrenching as the young star-crossed lovers, and Lee Dong-gun is absolute perfection as Yeongsangun. I love nothing more than a sympathetic villain, and he couldn’t possibly be better as the tormented king who just wants to be loved.

 

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  • Seven Day Queen: Since I’d been traveling, I couldn’t catch the last 6 episodes live, so I made the rather stupid decision of watching them all in one go. I am now a mess of goo on the floor and someone will need to peel me out of the lake of tears I made for myself. This show really brought out the masochist in me, in that I knew the pain (and there was a lot of it) was coming, but I didn’t run for the hills like someone with better self-preservation instincts would have. Instead, I loyally followed our main couple as they fought tooth and nail to stay together and love as they were born to do. I relished the rare moments of happiness they had together, which sustained me through some really painful stretches of smug, evil ministers and the deaths of our couple’s loved ones. In the end, I’m just grateful to this cast and crew for giving us such a beautiful, heartrending romance that proves noble sacrifice can be devoid of idiocy, and that love really can grow stronger in the face of adversity. So. Much. Adversity.
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Go Bo Gyeol Talks About Challenges Of Playing A Villain On “Queen For 7 Daysâ€

 

 

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Actress Go Bo Gyeol, who played one of the villains on KBS’s “Queen for 7 Days,†spoke about her role in the drama.

 

She played Yoon Myeong Hye, whose one-sided love for Lee Yeok (Yeon Woo Jin) blinds her.

She laughed as she said, “I’ve never had such mean things said about me in my life before. [My character] is mean even when I look at her.†Go Bo Gyeol added, “The way she did it was wrong.

 

She had good intentions and a great cause for Joseon, but the way she chose to do everything was so extreme. However, because there was a cause, it wasn’t uncomfortable to act that out or anything like that. I got into character, so I definitely saw that Myeong Hye would have made those choices.â€

 

Her character never received love back from the one she loves. Because of this jealousy, her character put Lee Yeok in danger at points and tried to create friction between Lee Yeok and his lover.

 

About this, Go Bo Gyeol said, “I had those thoughts for real as well. I felt depressed and lonely. Myeong Hye acted alone a lot, and she also loved alone as well. It was lonely. But I didn’t very hard to try to put those emotions aside, because that was what Myeong Hye was feeling. I wanted to live as Myeong Hye until the end of the drama.â€

 

She shared, “I realized that being the villain isn’t easy. I also learned that love is important. I realized that being loved is a very fortunate and happy thing, and how precious having friends is.â€

 

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