151002 Do Kyungsoo or D.O.: his approach to tackling acting



Do Kyungsoo had taken on acting again following IOIL, Cart, and IRY. This time, he played the country boy Beomsil in Pure Heart, a tender first love story. Pure Heart had recently finished filming. Now that he had broken through the prejudice against idols and become familiar as an acting-idol, what are his impressions?

Do Kyungsoo opened up at a recent event on his approach to tackling acting and his impressions of it. Steadily tanning from a summer spent filming in Jeollanam’s Goheung, he laughed lightly that, “I’m not the type to mind about skin” and “Being an idol doesn’t mean you have to be pale.”

Additionally, when asked which he liked the most out of acting, dancing, and singing, he replied, “It’s hard to pick just one right now. They’re all fun and I want to do well in them,” and “Whether my job now is to sing or dance or even act, I’m enjoying what I’m doing now. I don’t even know what kind of person I’ll be ten years later.”

Do Kyungsoo was set to go into his next project as soon as Pure Heart finished. That would be the film Brother, where he will be siblings with Jo Jungseok. Having thought of Jo Jungseok as one of the actors he had always liked, he revealed, “I really like how Jo Jungseok senior gives individuality to his acting” and “I’m deeply happy that I can work with him for Brother.”

When asked if he wanted to challenge a role like Jo Jungseok’s Kang Sunwoo in the recent drama Oh! My Ghostess, he said, “While my usual personality is on the blunt side, I want to try playful roles and comic roles without that mattering when I act.”

His earnestness can be heard through the lips of the staff who had worked with him as well. Pure Heart’s director praised him with, “As soon as (Do) Kyungsoo arrives on site, he gets a clear idea of what scene will be shot today so he can be prepared. By no means is that an easy thing to do” and “Even when he had an activity overseas the day before, he reads the script and practices on the plane back.”

Director Lee Eunhee recounted that, “Kyungsoo always stares straight at you when you talk with him, so I wondered if his company trained him to to do even that, and avoided it some at first. But later, I found out that he does that because his eyesight is bad.” She added, “After his casting I was so pleased with Do Kyungsoo as an actor. You can tell how earnestly he approaches acting.”

Do Kyungsoo, for whom the staff indeed had no shortage of praise, can be checked out with the future release of Pure Heart. His acting in previous works had no cracks, and the public’s anticipation for how he will portray a country boy’s first love is growing.