Park Eun-bin poses for photos during the press conference for the South Korean medical thriller series 'Hyper Knife.' Photo courtesy of Disney+

Park Eun-bin won’t ask you to root for ‘loose cannonball’ role in ‘Hyper Knife’

Jaehwa Bernardo

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742290603875하이퍼나이프_박은빈1.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Park Eun-bin poses for photos during the press conference for the South Korean medical thriller series &#x27;Hyper Knife,&#x27; March 17, 2025. <em>Handout/Disney+</em></span></span></span>Upon reading the script for “Hyper Knife” for the first time, Park Eun-bin was immediately drawn to the main character Jung Se-ok—a role the South Korean actress described as one she had never portrayed before.</div><p>“When I was shooting ‘Castaway Diva,’ I got the script [for ‘Hyper Knife’],” Eun-bin recalled, referring to her last drama which aired in 2023. “Reading about the character [Se-ok] hooked me right away. I think I was just drawn to it almost instantly.”</p><p>But Eun-bin acknowledges that “it might be difficult to relate” to Se-ok, who displays “antisocial” behavior. In fact, she admits that she doesn’t aim to persuade the audience to support her character.</p><p>“I don&#x27;t want you to root for her, I don’t want you to totally understand and relate to her because she is a psychopath. I just want you to know that there could be people like this in the world,” she said via an interpreter at a recent press conference for “Hyper Knife.”</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Powv_JdhDQQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div><p>The medical thriller series, set to premiere on Disney+ on March 19, follows Se-ok, a brilliant neurosurgeon who loses her medical license after a clash with her mentor, Choi Deok-hee (portrayed by veteran actor Sul Kyung-gu). Stripped of her credentials, Se-ok turns to performing illegal surgeries in secret, driven by her obsession with medical mastery.</p><p>“This is truly a character that I haven’t played before, a genre I haven’t experienced yet,” said Eun-bin, who earned the Grand Prize at the prestigious Baeksang Arts Awards for her performance in the titular role of the legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo.”</p><div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/27/23/what-baeksang-win-means-to-park-eun-bin"><strong>READ: Park Eun-bin on Baeksang win</strong></a></div><p>Describing Se-ok, Eun-bin said: “She’s uncontrollable, like a loose cannon and sometimes she’s almost childish. She’s very simple-minded. She has this one obsession. And she is a very transparent person, in that sense.”</p><p>Director Kim Jung-hyun explained he chose Eun-bin for the lead role because he wanted to show “a new facet” of the actress.</p><p>“With ‘Hyper Knife,’ I think I went to a very drastic length because this is a role that we don’t usually expect of Eun-bin. I had a lot of high expectations for Eun-bin, but I knew she would pull this off so well and just nail this character,” he added.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742274677245하이퍼나이프_설경구 1 (1).jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Sul Kyung-gu</span></span></span></div><p>Eun-bin was also the main reason Kyung-gu, also a Baeksang grand prize winner whose recent films include “Kill Boksoon” and “The Moon,” took on the project.</p><p>“I had so much expectations for her and I was excited to be working alongside her. She is basically the reason why I chose this project,” he said.</p><p>Eun-bin said she was “just full of dopamine” whenever she would film scenes with Kyung-gu. “He gave me a lot of energy. I could work off of his energy… As an actor myself, I was very honored to be able to work with Kyung-gu,” she said.</p><div><strong>‘Amazing’ actors</strong></div><p>Audiences can expect top-notch performances from the lead actors, said Park Byung-eun, who plays anesthesiologist Han Hyeon-ho in the series.</p><p>“Watching the members of the cast at their craft, I was just in awe of how amazing they were. It’s not always like that on every project that you work on,” said Byung-eun, whose past series include “Kingdom” and “Eve.”</p><p>“[‘Hyper Knife’] was truly a special production where just watching them deliver each line, each facial expression, with every scene, I was just in complete awe,” he said.</p><p>Yoon Chan-young, the youngest of the four lead actors, said he felt “immense honor” to work alongside his co-stars.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742274431002하이퍼나이프_박병은 1.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Park Byung-eun</span></span></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742274555244하이퍼나이프_윤찬영 3 (1).jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Yoon Chan-young</span></span></span></div><p>In the series, Chan-young, known for the zombie horror series “All of Us Are Dead,” takes on the role of Seo Young-ju, Se-ok’s assistant.</p><p>“I am a big fan of Eun-bin, too, and when I was working together with her, I was a bit nervous at first. In most of the scenes that I’m in, I’m together with Eun-bin but she&#x27;s always so nice and caring of me,” Chan-young said.</p><p>In preparing for the medical surgery scenes, the cast members had to watch neurosurgery videos and received guidance from an expert, Kyung-gu shared. They also worked with stand-in performers.</p><p>“There was actually a professional neurosurgeon who would come to talk to us about the videos... The professor was always there with us on set when we had those [surgery] procedure scenes. And for the procedure scenes, there were stand-ins for the hands,” Kyung-gu narrated.</p><p>“For Eun-bin, she couldn’t find a stand-in for her hand so the surgeries that she did, she did it herself with her own hands. So we prepared really hard for those scenes,” he said.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742274751345하이퍼나이프_전체단체1 (1).jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Director Kim Jung-hyun (left) joins the cast of &#x27;Hyper Knife&#x27;</span></span></span></div><div><strong>Offbeat characters</strong></div><p>Since “Hyper Knife” joins a growing body of medical K-dramas, director Kim said the series stands out from others due to its “array of characters” and “very strange story.”</p><p>“All the characters, there’s something off about them. These are characters that you wouldn’t usually see in Korean shows so it was very unique,” he said.</p><p>Kyung-gu, meanwhile, noted that the series “deals with the subject matter of shadow doctors, which has never been dealt with in a K-drama before.”</p><p>For Eun-bin, the character dynamics serve as the most crucial point of the series. “So the chemistry between the characters and how we convey those dynamics are extremely important,” she said.</p>

<p>While instantly drawn to her 'Hyper Knife' character Jung Se-ok, South Korean actress Park Eun-bin admits that she doesn't aim to persuade audiences to support her role.</p>

While instantly drawn to her 'Hyper Knife' character Jung Se-ok, South Korean actress Park Eun-bin admits that she doesn't aim to persuade audiences to support her role.

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Park Eun-bin won’t ask you to root for ‘loose cannon’ role in ‘Hyper Knife’

Park Eun-bin won’t ask you to root for ‘loose cannon’ role in ‘Hyper Knife’

Jaehwa Bernardo,

ABS-CBN News

Published Mar 19, 2025 07:00 AM PHT

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Updated Mar 19, 2025 07:01 AM PHT

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