Yoo Seung-ho "I got manicured for homosexuality acting and lost 6kg" "Newsroom"
Aug 04, 2024
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On this day, Yoo Seung-ho responded to the words 'I don't want to be complacent only about what I'm good at and comfortable with'"I only look for what I'm used to and what I'm comfortable with. Then there is no development and I don't try to fix my shortcomings. Because of those thoughts, I thought that even if I was uncomfortable or something I didn't know, I wanted to try it and do it""I was a scared person who wanted to do only things that were comfortable, but if I keep going like this, there will be no progress.""'I'm trying to change it because I have a lot of thoughts.'
Yoo Seung-ho tries his first play in his life with the play `Angels in America.' `I became possessed for no exact reason,' he said, adding that he also painted nail polish himself as an LGBTQ person. "I played the role of Prior Wilter in the play, and he is a brilliant character. I used a lot of things that I didn't usually do because I was an extrovert and colorful person," he added.
At the same time, regarding the part that focuses on acting in the theater, "Homosexuality, race, discrimination, religion, etc. are covered, but there are so many things I don't know, so I've looked up a lot of movies about them. I also tried to express those things by losing 5-6kg of weight because I'm a character with AIDS in the play" he said.
In particular, Yoo Seung-ho said "Skilling was not easy at first. Anyway, I have to love my boyfriend and I have to look at the other actor with that kind of love, but those were not easy at firstHe confessed, "'I didn't have to be a man or a woman, but I just looked at the object of the person I love, so I think it became a little more comfortable to approach me.'"
Ahead of the first play, he said "I'm actually a person who was used to doing it in front of the camera.", but added "I'm trying to overcome it in my own way".
Meanwhile, Tony Kirschner's work 'Angels in America', which premiered in 1991, deals with various topics such as discrimination and confusion experienced by social minorities set in the United States in the 1980s. The stories of five minorities with various identities move between reality and fantasy and ask the audience essential questions about life. The play Angels in America will be performed from Aug. 6 to Sep. 28 at LG SIGNATURE Hall in Seoul, LG Art Center.
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