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'Money Heist: Korea' stars on taking extra steps to play their roles authentically

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Kim Yunjin. Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/06/28/kim-yunjin-money-heist.jpg"/><figcaption>Kim Yunjin. <em>Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Kim Yunjin plays a tough investigator in &#x27;Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area,&#x27; the Korean adaptation of the hit Spanish series.</p><p>The South Korean-American actress is familiar to viewers for playing Sun in the award-winning American TV series &#x27;Lost.&#x27; Kim shared how she used the uncomfortably hot and sometimes claustrophobic set they used in &#x27;Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area&#x27; to film her scenes to play her character’s difficulties.</p><p>&quot;Visually, it doesn&#x27;t look that small but physically, it was actually a very small space. So I felt cramped; I felt stifled. I was just so hard I couldn&#x27;t breathe at times. And I used it. I think this is how my character would feel at this moment. So I sort of used the environment around me, and you know, sometimes my eyeliner was running and but I was just like, I think her makeup would be running a little. I don&#x27;t think she would look perfect,&quot; she said.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Yoo Ji-tae. Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/06/28/yoo-ji-tae-money-heist.jpg"/><figcaption>Yoo Ji-tae. <em>Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>In the story, she goes toe to toe with Yoo Ji-tae who plays the enigmatic character called &#x27;Professor.&#x27; Through an interpreter, Yoo talked about how he used previous roles as inspiration to craft the multi-layered character that he plays in the series.</p><p>&quot;My character, the Professor, is full of faith and he is a pure kind of person in the show and he also has a genius plan in his mind. So I had to show all of those aspects of him in the show and the Professor actually is a very pure person in that he doesn&#x27;t want to harm anybody, and while not harming anybody, he wants to achieve this ideal,&quot; Yoo shared.</p><p>&quot;So I actually used my own image, the established image that I had already in portraying the role of the Professor and that, you know, very double layered charm that I portrayed in the movie Old Boy and the character that was shown in the movie named The Swindlers was all put into one place to portray the Professor in such a multi layered way.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Park Hae-soo. Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/06/28/park-hae-soo-money-heist.jpg"/><figcaption>Park Hae-soo. <em>Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Meanwhile, Park Hae-soo, who was also in the global hit series &#x27;Squid Game,&#x27; took extra steps to bring authenticity to his role as Berlin, North Korea&#x27;s most wanted criminal.</p><p>&quot;That was our question: Would the global audience recognize the different dialects and accents? All the cast including mine have different accents and dialects that they use in the show. And for me because I play the role of a North Korean person, I wanted to make sure that I really got into detail about his accent,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;So I had a North Korean tutor with me who checked daily how my North Korean was coming out. And later, surprisingly, I got used to the North Korean dialect, and I kind of felt that by using the accent, I could understand the culture a little better. So I think it was a very fun and good experience for me.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/06/28/20220628_money-heist-korea-cast-for-thumb.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Courtesy: Netflix “Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area”</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>&#x27;Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area&#x27; can now be seen on Netflix.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K8wqVRSdYFc?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div class="iwantbar"> </div>

Some of South Korea’s biggest stars team up to steal viewers' hearts in 'Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area.'