Gong Yoo Reflects on Emergency Martial Law and Netflix's 'The Trunk'
Dec 05, 2024
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Gong Yoo met with Sports Chosun at a cafe in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 5th and interviewed Netflix's original series 'Trunk' (written by Park Eun-young and directed by Kim Kyu-tae).
In an emergency statement at 10:28 p.m. on the 3rd, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an emergency martial law to eradicate the shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are looting the freedom and happiness of our people at once and to protect the free constitutional order. As a result, the National Assembly passed a resolution at around 1:02 a.m. on the 4th calling on President Yoon to lift martial law with the approval of all 190 lawmakers, and the declaration of martial law was nullified. At 4:27 a.m., three hours later, President Yoon has lifted the emergency martial law through a public statement.
Gong Yoo was also almost affected by the emergency martial law, but after the release, the interview was conducted as scheduled. Gong Yoo "If I were to tell you the situation, I had another schedule in the morning yesterday. It was at dawn the day before. But I had a schedule early in the morning, so I was studying my own, but my juniors also sent it to the chat room because their acquaintances were spreading out. I wondered what was going on, so I turned on the TV and started watching it live, and I thought something crazy that I'd seen in a real movie happened and something unbelievable that I couldn't imagine going through in my life. I stayed up all night with the same nervousness as any other person, and I couldn't sleep until martial law was lifted. I don't know if I'm too imaginative, but I stayed up all night feeling anxious that there might be something unexpected next. I think it's a good thing in the first place."
'Trunk' is a story surrounding a suspicious trunk that suddenly rises to the lake one day, depicting a mysterious event and a wave of emotions that takes off the veil with a secret hidden in it. It is a secret marriage where real and fake are intertwined, and it deeply and densely captures mixed emotions in a mixed relationship. In particular, the unpredictable narratives and developments that go back and forth between the past and the present, and the emotional lines of complex and multifaceted characters are drawing attention from viewers and critics around the world.
Seo Hyun-jin played the role of a woman who became alone because of her marriage, and Gong Yoo played the role of a man who got married and became terribly lonely. Above all, the process of recovering and healing through Han Jung-won (Sharing) by Noh In-ji (Seo Hyun-jin), who chose "term marriage" as his job while feeling guilty and hurt after failing in his first marriage, and Han Jung-won, who repeated sleeplessness and nightmares every night due to the trauma of his childhood, saved himself through Noh In-ji.
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