B1A4’s Baro. He is in the middle of acting as Binggeurae in ‘Reply 1994.’ With a pure face that even when he jokes around it seems he would just laugh innocently. His nickname is even Binggeurae (t/n: Binggeurae means smile), that friend still hasn’t matured and just keeps going. As a twenty-year-old adult he keeps pushing through the most severe mental pains. The idol group B1A4’s Baro is acting in tvN ‘Reply 1994’ as a medical student from Chungbook, this is a story of Binggeurae. He has so many different problems running through his head, so that even when he smiles his pure smile, in that moment he looks so conflicted. Baro has come to live with Binggeurae, and Baro confessed that he has grown mentally. Because Baro’s ‘Reply 1994’ schedule is extremely packed, he was even so busy that he had to carefully save time to sleep. However to challenge acting for the first time was something that he dreamed of since he was young, and was one of the things on his bucket list. To match how busy he got, he also is sorry and thankful for his members, but his members are his best friends, so they know his situation, and already understand him. Even though he is in a bigger world, meeting bigger actor sunbaes, his members are so precious to him, that the time he spends without them is almost a waste. For that reason, lately Baro is more grateful than anyone, and smiles a happy smile. Q. You act so well despite the fact that it’s your first time acting, that it makes me think that you and Binggeurae are the same person. How is it for real? Are you and Binggeurae similar? Baro: Our disposition and personalities (with Binggeurae) are totally different. However the problems and things that Bingeurae thinks about, I’m able to identify with. I’m still just twenty two, and even though I’m a entertainer, I’m still human so I understand the challenges that people in their twenties have. Because of that I think we’re rather similar. Q. Maybe because of Binggeurae’s characteristic timidness, he still seems young. The real Baro seems really mature though. Baro: Oh really? (laugh) Putting my bangs down seems like a good idea. Q. Tell me the process of how you joined ‘Reply 1994.’ I heard that all of B1A4 had gone to audition. Baro: Our company suddenly decided to go out for the audition. But from the beginning they were picking people from Chungcheong-do so I never thought that I would make it (Baro’s real hometown is Jeolla-do, Gwangju). The audition atmosphere was really comfortable. The director (Shin Won-ho PD) was smiling too and welcoming us, so I didn’t get nervous or anything. He just asked ‘Where are you from’ and I said ‘Gwangju’ and they all went “Ah~~~~↘’ (laugh). I thought I wouldn’t make it. Right, but then they gave me the ‘Reply 1997’ script and told me to do it in a Jeolla-do Gwangju version. After when they contacted us to tell me I got Binggeurae’s part, I was really surprised. Later I was reading another interview, and I found out why. They said the image they wanted and my image was similar. Q. The other actors had characters who matched up with their hometowns so it must have been easy for them to speak with satoori, but you got someone from Chungcheong-do, so you must have had to practice. Baro: Right after I got casted I started practicing. One of our members is from Chungcheong-do, so we worked together and practiced. Honestly the Chungcheong-do satoori and the Jeolla-do satoori has similarities so it wasn’t that hard. Q. I heard that even if you weren’t filming, all the actors would use their accents in conversations. So while you were filming did you speak with a Chungcheong-do satoori and when you weren’t filming did you speak with a Jeolla-do satoori? Baro: Haha. It’s a satoori with Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, Chungcheong-do. It’s mixed with all the eight provinces (laugh). When I talk it comes out with a little bit of a Jeolla-do satoori, and with a little bit of a Chungcheong-do satoori. It feels natural now. Right, Trash hyung (Jungwoo) speaks only with a Gyeongsang-do satoori. Q. It looks like you guys don’t call each other by your real names, but by the names from the drama. Baro: That’s right. Samcheonpo, Trash, Najeongie noona I call them like that. And other people call me ‘Geurae, Bingeurae.’ Q. You’re acting is so good that it’s hard to believe this is your first time acting. Have you perhaps taken separate acting lessons? Baro: I haven’t received many acting lessons. When I was a trainee, I took classes for a little bit, but I didn’t know how to read a script at all, so I just learned terminology and such. Something that was a lot of help was before we started filming ‘Reply,’ was the long amount of time we did for the reading. We started reading, three months before the filming. From then I started to get acquainted with the other actors. In the drama, there’s a lot of scenes where we’re all together, and we had been together like that since we started the reading, so we were able to get along together well. The atmosphere we have now is a result of the amount of readings we had that were about four hours long each. Q. Because you all met together often for the past several months, you must be as close to each other as you are to your members. Baro: I’m really grateful that the hyungs look after me so well, but for me because they are sunbaes it’s hard to feel close to them. The cool thing is when we go into a cut we all become twenty and in that moment we can act comfortable like friends. ‘Samcheonpo!’, ‘Chilbong-ah!’ We can go like that and act comfortably, but when we go back to reality they’re such big sunbaes so I think, ‘Uh, what should I do,’ sometimes. With our members, we’re definitely close enough so that we can pour out and share what we’re thinking. Q. Who are you the closest to? Baro: Mentally the person I’m closest to is Yoonjin (Tiny-G’s Dohee). We’re two years apart. She’s really cute like a dongsaeng. And she’s small. Luckily Yoonjinie isn’t the type to be timid, so in real life we tend to get along while joking with each other. And Ara noon is 24, so she’s a noona that’s two years older than me so it’s comfortable. But you learn she’s a sunbae to me by 10 years. While we’re acting comfortably, when we look at the script or she talks about her personal experiences I feel like ‘Woah, she’s really a big sunbae.’ Going off of that all of our actors, are really good sunbaes so I feel like I’ve met a good first group of people. It’s a good experience. Q. You were born in 1992, but you’re acting as 20-year-olds with Kim Sunggyoon who was born in 1979. What was your first impression? Baro: I really like the movie ‘Nameless Gangster.’ I watched it once recently and in it Cheonpo hyung was hitting someone with a wine bottle (laugh). When I first heard that the actor Kim Sunggyoon was casted, I didn’t know what role he was in. But after a while I learned that we were acting as similarly aged people. Wow, even if I think about it now it’s cool. Right, when I first saw him he was wearing a hat and glasses, and he looked really comfortable. His personality is really kind and caring. He ask ‘Baro, have you eaten?’ And Chilbong hyung. I saw ‘Architecture 101’ and ‘Gu’s Family Book’ and he didn’t play a bad character. Jungwoo hyung was in a movie that I had always liked, ‘Wish.’ I was a fan of Ara noona before too. Q. Didn’t Trash and Binggeurae have a chemistry that has gone beyond friendship? Ah, but it seemed like you were really good at expressing - should I say risky - the detailed feelings that he had about Trash, with a peculiar expression. What did the director tell you to do? Baro: I was just going off what I felt, but honestly it wasn’t clear what I had to do. Binggeurae’s sexuality wasn’t clear-cut, so I practiced and talked with the director a lot, and we came up with ‘I can’t like him too much, but I can’t not like him either.’ I kept thinking “What is this? Ah, I really don’t know,’, but the director said that it was perfect that way. That really made me anticipate our script. Everybody’s really curious about Binggeurae’s sexuality, and above all who Najeong’s husband. We, of course, are curious too. Q. From what I hear, the viewers always take the writers’ bait, and it seems like that the actors, because they don’t know either, take the bait that the writers throw (laugh). Baro: Oh, that’s right. There’s a lot of odd parts, and I think “Is this bait?’ (laugh) But as you’re acting and you don’t really know what’s going on, there are moments where you don’t know what to do. In my situation, his sexuality isn’t quite obvious and in the scene if I act one way it might seem like he’s obviously gay, but I act another way it might seem like he’s too cold, and that’s it’s just admiration. My homework was to grab the emotions inbetween those two, and for that Jungwoo hyung helped me a lot. In the earphone scene, if I didn’t react enough, he would say, ‘Do a little bit more.’ Q. What are you hoping for, with Binggeurae and Trash? Baro: It would be nice if he wasn’t gay and it was just admiration. (If he is gay) It’s too expected. The funny thing is that the fans were fighting over what my sexuality was. They don’t have to fight, but it’s the fun in watching a drama. source: ten asia (1); (2) trans cr: afterJJyoung @AVIATEB1A4 / Take out with full credit to the sources and translator
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