Gong Yoo Addresses Criticisms Surrounding Netflix’s 'The Trunk'

Dec 05, 2024

Gong Yoo Addresses Criticisms Surrounding Netflix’s 'The Trunk'
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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 Trunk, a company that provides fixed-term marriage services called NM appeared, and was criticized for 'Beautiful Sex Trafficking Marriage'. In response, Gong Yoo responded, "First of all, I'm not a person who likes formal things very much. And I don't want to mention the wording itself, but it was shocking for me to see that it was related to sex OO as an article title In fact, it was a bit shocking to go that far. I expect too much, I know, but I think it's part of the negative view. When it is opened simultaneously in 190 countries, not all, various opinions are poured out, and opinions are divided just by looking at Korea. I'm not saying that our intention exists from various perspectives. I'm not saying that it's wrong, but if everyone saw it like that, it's a problem, and many of you didn't, so I think it's just a variety of perspectives."




Gong Yoo also decided that he would do it in a short time after receiving the script for the first time about his likes and dislikes toward 'Trunk', but he made the decision thinking that there would already be many likes and dislikes at the moment he made the decision. I'm not too uncomfortable with various perspectives or likes and dislikes now. And I think it's something to respect. But I would have done this because I didn't think so in terms of things that I thought negatively and uncomfortable. I think I did it because I thought it was a fictional story and that what I wanted to say was more important in the end through this setting and extreme setting.

'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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