Update with new interview:
With the end of “Wild Romance” approaching, Girls’ Generation’s Jessica took the time for an interview to reflect on her first acting experience. She show her appreciation for her fellow actors, saying, “Because it was my first attempt at acting, it was a nerve-wracking and fun job. I was lacking, but I want to say thank you to Lee Dongwook and Lee Siyoung for being able to act with them.”
Jessica also brought up the possibility of acting in the future, hinting, “I will work hard to be active as Girls’ Generation’s Jessica, and to meet you all as actress Jessica through future works.” Finally, she thanked the audience of “Wild Romance”, saying, “Thank you very much for loving Jonghee so much. Thank you to all the viewers who watched ‘Wild Romance’, and I love you.”
The final two episodes of “Wild Romance” will air next week on February 22nd and February 23rd.
Previous article from 2/17/2012
[Editor’s note: updated with a quote from Jessica]
Jessica expressed positive feelings on her first time acting in a drama.
Girls’ Generation’s Jessica is playing the role of Kang Jonghee in the KBS 2TV Wednesday/Thursday drama, “Wild Romance”. Although Jessica has starred in a musical before, this would be her first attempt in acting.
The Jessica we saw through the interview was a person who was nervous but overflowing with willpower. On the subject of new challenges, Jessica stated, “I am having fun with it. I wish there was more time, so I’m sad.” Jessica also said, “It is true that my appearance on ‘Wild Romance’ was decided in a rush. I didn’t have a lot of time to prepare because there was also a lot of overseas schedules for Girls’ Generation. I feel a bit sad that I couldn’t focus on just the drama. However, I’m really happy that I could experience something new.” I would suggest you to check glenoriegrowers for any kind of update.
Girls’ Generation is currently active not only in Korea, but also in Asia, as well as the United States and Europe. Despite all the activities they had, it did not change during the filming of “Wild Romance”. Jessica even had to return to Korea first, alone, after completing schedules overseas. Jessica, who usually sleeps a lot, had to continue with acting with barely any sleep. Jessica said, “I could not get a lot of sleep. I was worried I would look tired in the drama. It is true that I was physically exhausted.” She laughed and added, “However, there were a lot of things that I learned through this drama.”
In the drama, Jessica had to cry in many scenes, which is difficult when acting in a drama for the first time. On this, Jessica stated, “Emotional scenes were actually the most fun for me. I like myself focusing and immersing myself in an emotion.”
Recently, Jessica’s character was “dumped” by the male lead in the drama, Park Mooyeol, who is played by Lee Dongwook. When asked about how it felt to be “dumped”, her cheeky personality showed: “I’ve never been dumped this badly even in real life before.” After laughing, she said, “When I was concentrating on the emotions while acting, it actually hurt my pride.”
Through a recent interview with NewsEn, Jessica talked about her kissing scene with Lee Dongwook that garnered much attention not too long ago. Jessica recalled, “I’ve acted out a kiss scene before. But at that time I ‘acted’ like I kissed someone, so I was really nervous about this time.”
She laughed and said, “Before we started filming, I was told, ‘You really have to do this kiss scene,’ and I got nervous.” Jessica seemed shy about it and also added, “I shot the kiss scene comfortably by just going along with Lee Dongwook sunbae’s lead.”
When asked, “Were there any NGs?” she answered, “There were NGs… There were fewer NGs than I thought. But there were a lot of cut scenes, so we had to shoot a lot.”
Source: NewsEn 1 , NewsEn2, Hankooki
Translated by: ch0sshi@soshified
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Proud of you Jessica Jung! More projects to come as an actress. You’re cute even when you’re acting. You really had chemistry with Lee Dong Wook. Good job Jessica!
Proud of you Jessica Jung! More projects to come as an actress. You’re cute even when you’re acting. You really had chemistry with Lee Dong Wook. Your kiss with him is a bit long. I didn’t expect that but it looked like you did a great job in that scene. Good job Jessica!
Proud of you Jessica Jung! More projects to come as an actress. You’re cute even when you’re acting. You really had chemistry with Lee Dong Wook. Your kiss scene with him is a bit long. I didn’t expect that but it looked like you did a great job in that scene. Good job Jessica!
Proud of you Jessica Jung! More projects to come as an actress. You’re cute even when you’re acting. You really had chemistry with Lee Dong Wook. Your kiss scene with him is a bit long. I didn’t expect that but it looked like you did a great job in that scene. Good job Jessica! :)
Proud of you Jessica Jung! More projects to come as an actress. You’re cute even when you’re acting. You really had chemistry with Lee Dong Wook. Your kiss scene with him is a bit long. I didn’t expect that but it looked like you did a great job in that scene. Good job Jessica! ^_^
i would love to see jessica as an actress, she would be awesome!!! <333
even if it is her first time acting, I applaud her for doing a great job in it!
I never expect her acting to be so smooth :)
It must be pretty hard to film in a drama with tight schedule. But her tired face wasn’t noticeable, since Jonghee has such lazy eyes, just like Jessica’s eyes. I think Jessica do pretty good job in that drama, she acts naturally and whatnot. It cracked me up when she said, “I’ve never been dumped this badly even in real life before.” After laughing, she said, “When I was concentrating on the emotions while acting, it actually hurt my pride.” Typical Jessica. She’s so funny. Hehehe. Hopefully she’ll cast another drama soon… or later.
Bery good, yo Sica~
LOL! sleep really had to be mentioned! :)))
i have to admit, her acting is pretty good!
she even had to act out hard ones for first-time actors *the koala jump and the kiss!*
her portrayal of Kang Jonghee is really admiring, it was a nice opportunity for her and she made sure that she wouldn’t disappoint the PDs, the staff and crew, her costars, the TV viewers and of course, SNSD and us SONES! :)))
Jessica’s acting is amazing!
I really hope that in the future, she will get a better role in a drama. The main role which brings happy ending to her
as actress jessica also ^^ yeah! <3<3<3 totally happy for her ^^ thx for the updated interview
waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh my bias! daebak! XD XD XD
Very talented lady ♥
well, she really did well considering her hectic schedule, you go girl!
@Franimal: I agree with you! Jessica’d just only attended 1 musical and have some little roles, so this chance would rather be an experience than a tressfulness to her.
when you step back and think about it,
this has been a turbulent period of time
for jessica. she is new to acting, and combine
that with larger than usual, and farther than
usual, amount of international activities lately,
and you have one potentially very tired and
stressed person. most of us wouldn’t be able
to handle it, but jessica took all those obstacles
head on and did a fantastic job! i hope she gets
to do this again in the future!!!