Actor Ahn Jae-hong announced his acting transformation in 2024 with TV's original series 'LTNS' and Netflix series 'Dakgangjeong'.
In the movie 'Rebound' released last April, Ahn Jae-hong played the role of Kang Yang-hyeon, the new basketball coach. 'Rebound' is a moving true story based on the miraculous story written over 8 days by the new coach and 6 players of the Busan Jungang High School basketball team, the weakest team in the 2012 National High School Basketball Tournament, which no one paid attention to. Ahn Jae-hong also gained about 10kg in weight to achieve a high level of synchronization with the real-life coach Kang.
He also played the role of Joo-nam in the Netflix series ‘Mask Girl’, which was released in August. 'Mask Girl' is the story of Kim Momi, an ordinary office worker with a complex about her appearance, who covers her face with a mask every night and gets caught up in an unintended incident while working as an internet broadcast BJ.
In the play, Ahn Jae-hong played the role of Joo Oh-nam, who develops obsession and delusions after learning that his co-worker Kim Momi is a mask girl. Each scene took about two hours to wear special makeup, and it looked like it had swallowed up a character from the original webtoon of the same name. In particular, the ad-lib ‘Aishiteru’ was shocking.
Jaehong Ahn plans to continue his active activities in 2024. TVING's next original series 'LTNS' is a comedy series in which a couple whose relationship has become estranged due to life's struggles begins to blackmail an adulterous couple to make money, and in the process, confronts their already ruined relationship. Actor Lee Som and I have been married for 5 years, and an honest and bold collaboration is expected. It was also invited to the On Screen section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival.
There is also the Netflix series 'Dakgangjeong', which is the second collaboration with director Lee Byung-hun of the drama 'Melodious Constitution'. 'Dakganjeong' is a comical mystery chase drama that depicts the struggle of father Seonman and Baekjoong, who has a crush on her, to retrieve his daughter Minah, who was turned into a chicken gangjeong after entering a mysterious machine one day. Ahn Jae-hong plays Gojung, a quirky intern who has a crush on his boss' daughter Min-ah.
Reporter Ha-neul Lee, Ten Asia greenworld@tenasia.co.kr