Netflix's first animation has raised its completeness with Kim Tae-ri X Hong-kyung's voice, which is necessary for the star
May 01, 2025
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Kim Tae-ri and Hong-kyung of 「Necessary for this Star」 participated in character setting, live-action shooting, and voice acting, and completed it with director Han Ji-won.
First, Kim Tae-ri, who has shown an unlimited acting spectrum beyond the times and genres, played the voice of Nan-young, who goes straight toward her dream of exploring Mars. Nan-young is an astronaut who studies cutting-edge technology and is traumatized by the loss of her mother, who died on Mars 25 years ago. After being suddenly excluded from the project ahead of the final selection of the fourth Mars exploration project, he returns to Seoul and begins to fall in love with Jay, who accidentally encounters at a repair shop he found to fix his mother's keepsake turntable.
Director Han Ji-won, who suggested casting Kim Tae-ri because he thought her image fits perfectly in the role of Nan-young, who is a honest and strong profession but retains his own personality and innocence, said, `Kim Tae-ri had many active opinions on how to interpret the character and develop it. We exchanged opinions with each other, took the center of the character and made it together."?He talked about his work with Kim Tae-ri, who enthusiastically participated in the character construction process, not just voice acting.
The unveiled still draws attention with images of the heart of difficulties toward dreams, such as performing missions in spacesuits and focusing on research while watching panels showing high-tech technologies of the near future in 2050. It adds to the question of what the romance will look like with Jay, who is passionate about work and love.
Hong-kyung, who has an octagonal charm that shows a new face in each work, played the voice of Jay, who briefly abandoned his dream of becoming a musician. Jay was once a guitarist in a high-profile band, but he gave up his dream for a while, and now works at a retro sound equipment repair shop. He is a person who still retains analog sensibility in the 2050s when high-tech technology is in place, and he develops his dream of music again due to Nanyoung, who recognized his music as the only one.
Director Han Ji-won suggested casting because he thought Hong-kyung's unique literary and hip image matched Jay well, and even if he said a word, I loved the parts where richer layers were formed with the details contained in it. As a result, it seems that Jay has come to look like a real living character somewhere."?", he said, giving praise to Hong-kyung, who delicately built the character.
Jay's still, which was released, reveals his musician-like charm by playing the guitar and skillfully handling music programs. The romance between the two different people, which will unfold when Jay, who retains his own analog sensibility despite the ever-fastening world, meets Nanyoung, who is familiar with cutting-edge technology, will appeal to viewers around the world with a story full of emotions along with a universal love story.
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Director Han Ji-won said, `As the actors expressed their emotions much more explosively during the reading, we changed the camera dynamically by hand-held to match the intensity of the emotions and the actors' spontaneous performance during the live-action shoot. There were scenes inspired not only by reference to acting, but also by reference to the character development and the actors' movements", he said about the process of completing a more lively scene.
Kim Tae-ri said "In the actual shooting, he memorized all the lines under the director's conti and acted freely like a long-breathing theater stage. Seeing that the movement and acting of the day were actually reflected in the work, I was very impressed that I was with the creative process of breathing in the emotions and breathing of the character", Hong Kyung felt a sense of freedom that she could feel while acting on stage. Before recording, I was able to get closer to the character by experiencing the same experience as shooting in real life," he said, referring to his impressions of the special live-action process.
Director Han Ji-won responded, "'As the actors burst into emotions and acted freely, a more dynamic scene came out." expressed satisfaction with the lively work process.
In this way, not only voice acting but also character construction process to live-action filming, actors' 'needed for this star' is expected to fill the fun of watching and listening.
'Necessary for this star' is a story about an astronaut dreaming of exploring Mars and a man who gave up his dream of becoming a musician in Seoul in 2050 and moving toward dreams and love. Kim Tae-ri and Hong-kyung performed voice acting, and director Han Ji-won of 'That Summer'Clear Than Thought' directed. It will be released on Netflix on the 30th.
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