Actor Ahn Jae-hyun expressed his feelings about returning to the KBS weekend drama ‘The Real Thing Has Appeared!’ after 3 years.
On the 24th, Esquire magazine released Ahn Jae-hyun's pictorial and interview. As a former model, Ahn Jae-hyun showed off his soft charisma by wearing a variety of outfits, from trench coats to suits, through the pictorial.
In an interview following the photoshoot, Ahn Jae-hyun said, "I have been filming 'The Real Thing Has Appeared' for 9 days in a row," and "But I don't think it's particularly difficult. Thanks to the combination of the rainy spring weather and the atmosphere of the photoshoot site, a good mood was created. “He said.
Previously, Ahn Jae-hyun appeared on the web entertainment show 'Exercise Genius Ahn Jae-hyun' with producer Na Young-seok and attempted various genres of exercise for the first time in his life. In response to the question, 'I think everyone thought I was good at sports just by looking at my appearance,' Ahn Jae-hyun said, "It's been that way since my school days, but I'm a very static person." “His absence gave a twist and made my friends laugh a lot even when I was at school.”
Ahn Jae-hyun said that unlike the competitive spirit he feels in sports, his competitive spirit at work is clear. He said, "Sometimes I overdo it to the point of blaming myself. At those times, I try to consider whether what I'm doing is effort or overexertion. Effort and overexertion have different meanings. If effort is literally going one step further, overexertion is like a train derailing. “It means that when I get tired, I try to think about whether I’m confusing effort with overexertion,” he explained.
Jaehyun Ahn also wrote a book, ‘List of Things You Can Remember’. Regarding the reason for writing the book, he said, "I thought of a way to show that I still exist and that Ahn Jae-hyun is making such efforts. That was the book." He is known to have written on paper with a pen instead of typing on a keyboard while preparing a book, and to have taken pictures with a digital camera instead of a cell phone.
When asked why he stuck to pen, paper, and camera despite the inconvenience, Ahn Jae-hyun said, "It adds to the sincerity." He added, "If I write by hand, letter by letter, what I want to say becomes clearer. The light-heartedness decreases. Sentences that would have been blown out if I had written them by type are engraved in my mind one by one." Ahn Jae-hyun is said to have made the scene into a sea of laughter by telling an unexpected fact that there was a downside to this method.
Regarding his return to drama after three years, Ahn Jae-hyun said, "I was grateful and touched. I was so happy that I couldn't express it in words to be able to work on the task at hand again." He honestly said, "But because I was so happy, I felt burdened again. It was because I felt like I had to do well at all costs. I tried to act as comfortably as possible, but I still have a bit of energy. I'm trying to look natural."
‘The real thing has appeared!’ will continue to air until September with 50 episodes. When asked if it was a burden for the lead actor to lead the role for a long time, Ahn Jae-hyun answered, "I just work hard every day." Jaehyun Ahn said, “Today, I just want to do my best for who I am today, and since tomorrow hasn’t come yet, I just want to do well today.”
Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr