Yoo Yeon-seok Reflects on Playing a Presidential Spokesman in 'When The Phone Rings'
Jan 06, 2025
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Yoo Yeon-seok met with Sports Chosun at the King Kong by Starship headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 6th and had an interview with the end of MBC's Friday-Saturday drama `The Phone You Called Now' (played by Kim Ji-woon, directed by Park Sang-woo and We Deuk-gyu).
Yoo Yeon-seok drew attention when he played the role of a spokesman for the presidential office in this situation. During the broadcast of the `The Phone You Called Now,' President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an emergency martial law and then lifted it, and the impeachment motion against the president has since been passed.
Yoo Yeon-seok "It was ironic. There are many situations in this drama," he said with a smile.
Then "At some point, I can't post. Watch the drama as a drama, and I think I tried not to connect it with reality. So I made some efforts like that. I thought I shouldn't post as a spokesperson," he joked.
'The Phone You Called Now' is based on a web novel of the same name, depicting the secret romance thriller of a showwindo couple in their third year of political marriage, which began with a threatening phone call. Yoo Yeon-seok portrays Baek Sa-eon, a spokesman for the presidential office, and depicts a romance with Chae Soo-bin, who plays Hong Hee-joo. 'The Phone You Called Now' recorded 8.6% of the viewership in the final episode, and according to the end (Nilson Korea's national standard) and Netflix's top 10 official website, 'The Phone You Called Now' ranked fourth in the global non-English TV show category as of the fourth week of December (23-29).
lunamoon@sportschosun.com
