Director Ahn Hyo-seop said that he casted because he was very ordinary..I made it (full reading)
Jul 16, 2025
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On the morning of the 16th, Ahn Hyo-seop gave an interview with the action fantasy film 「Omniscient Reader's View」 (directed by Kim Byung-woo, produced by Realize Pictures) about playing Kim Dok-ja, the only reader of a novel that has been serialized for more than a decade.
'Omniscient Reader's View' is a work about the world in the novel becoming a reality on the day the novel that has been serialized for 10 years is completed, and the only reader survives in a destroyed world with the protagonists and colleagues in the novel.
Ahn Hyo-seop "I didn't read the original work from beginning to end, but I tried to read the parts that I could refer to instead. I tried to read the part that contained Kim's life and personality. Rather than making Kim Dokja in the movie based on the original character, I tried to make my own Kim Dokja by referring to the original.
He said "Universality is the most important part of this work when I express Kim Dokja. No matter which group you are in, you tried to create the most common look. At first, because I was tall, I thought 'Can I go against Kim Dokja?' but that was rather a preconceived notion. Because Kim had to coexist in the same way, he tried to abandon such prejudices. I wanted to be seen as a man of no taste as much as possible. I didn't want anything special to look like ````So I tried not to care, and I guess that's why I didn't care. When I went into the shoot, I didn't even look in the mirror. I started filming as the costume team and the makeup team did. I completely forgot what I looked like and went into filming, and that was my best effort to make Kim Dokja" he said.
Ahn Hyo-seop, who said that concerns about the original Kim Dok-ja and other synchro rates were not a problem, said "It was not a problem that could be solved even if I had a burden. This is the face I was born with. However, I thought there must be a reason why director Kim Byung-woo cast me. When I took on this role, I tried to faithfully play Kim Dokja and was not swayed much by the voices of concern"Of course, it's not easy to immerse yourself in the tasteless Kim Dokja for the first time. Even when I first had a meeting with director Kim Byung-woo 'Why did you cast me?I asked him ', but he said 'because it's so ordinary. Everyone's perspective is different and everyone's opinions can be different. That's when I broke the wall of the world. He explained, "That word helped me a lot to make Kim Dokja."
Ahn Hyo-seop, Lee Min-ho, Chae Soo-bin, Shin Seung-ho, Nana, and Ji-soo appeared in 'Omniscient Reader', and director Kim Byung-woo of"PMC: The Bunker" took the megaphone. It will be released on the 23rd.
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