Joo Ji-hoon of the movie 'Unofficial Operation' confessed that he had difficulty speaking Arabic.
On the 4th, the production report of the movie 'Unofficial Operation' (director Kim Seong-hun) was held at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Actors Ha Jung-woo and Ju Ji-hoon, and director Kim Seong-hoon attended.
'Unofficial Operation' is a buddy action movie between 'Min-jun', a diplomat who leaves for Lebanon to rescue a missing colleague, and 'Pan-su', a local taxi driver. Director Kim Seong-hun of the movies 'Going to the End', 'Tunnel' and the Netflix series 'Kingdom' took charge of directing.
Actor Ha Jung-woo played the role of 'Min-jun', a dirt spoon diplomat with nothing but guts, and actor Ju Ji-hoon played the role of 'Pan-su', a local taxi driver with a temperamental swindler.
As they deal with heavy topics, director Kim Seong-hoon said, "Even the previous films 'Going to the End' and 'Tunnel' are heavy stories in terms of material. I wanted to maximize the cinematic pleasure. The goal was to make a movie worth watching," he explained the intention of directing the film.
Ha Jung-woo, who worked together with director Kim Seong-hoon in the movie 'Tunnel'. Regarding the reason for choosing the work, he said, "'Unofficial Operation' has a heavy feel. The previous work 'Tunnel' is also about the survival of a man trapped in a tunnel due to an accident. However, I was interested in the comical and ironic directing. The work was also three-dimensional like 'Tunnel', so I chose it."
Next, Ha Jeong-woo explained the point he was worried about while playing the role of 'Min-jun'. He added, "There are endless action scenes in this movie. If it was a specialized agent, it would have been easy, but Min-joon is just an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was difficult to react in it."
Ju Ji-hoon also worked with director Kim Seong-hoon in the Netflix series 'Kingdom'. Regarding his successive appearances, he explained behind the scenes, "I received this script when I went to an event in Singapore for 'Kingdom'. Ha Jung-woo was already nominated. I didn't even report the script." He added, "I wanted to regret seeing the script. The director said it was an extreme story of two men, but Ha Jung-woo and Ju Ji-hoon's extreme survival period."
Joo Ji-hoon played the role of 'Pansu', a local taxi driver in Lebanon, and had to speak various languages including Arabic and French. He said, "I'm not familiar with Arabic. I don't know how to speak English, but I've heard it a lot. It felt like an alien language. I had to put emotion into it, but in fact, I stayed up two nights to memorize it, but I forgot everything. Even now, I can't remember a single word." revealed and burst into laughter.
'Unofficial Operation' will be released on August 2nd.
Reporter Lee Ha-neul, Ten Asia greenworld@tenasia.co.kr