Actress Jeong So-min (35) once again met the character of her life. This is through the tvN Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’ (written by Shin Ha-eun/directed by Yoo Je-won), which ended with episode 16 on the 6th.
‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’ is a drama depicting a turbulent romance around the neighborhood between a woman trying to reboot her flawed life and her living dark side, ‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’. In the drama, Jung So-min worked at a large American company and even had a fiancé. I played the role of Bae Seok-ryu, who gave up all his life and returned to Korea.
After sorting out his past life of focusing on work and appearances rather than his ‘real’ life, he returned to his hometown, Hyereung-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, and started a new life with his friends of 30 years, Choi Seung-hyo (played by Jeong Hae-in), Jeong Mo-eum (played by Kim Ji-eun), and their families. Jung So-min received a lot of praise for portraying Bae Seok-ryu, who is trying to find his ‘real life’, with a lively yet serious charm.
On the 8th, Jung So-min met with reporters at a cafe in Gangnam-gu, Seoul for an interview commemorating the end of ‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’. Regarding working with ‘Mother’s Friend’s Son’, he said, “Personally, I was happy to meet the character Pomegranate and meet the people of Hyereung-dong neighborhood.”
Jung So-min attracted attention by revealing her view of life while telling the story in ‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’.
When asked if she had ever wanted to reboot her life like a pomegranate, Jung So-min said, “I don’t want to reboot,” and smiled first, “I wouldn’t do that anyway.” He said, “But if you try to think about it, the person I am now, will be more mature than the person I have been in my life up to this point.” He added, “I don’t think I would be the person I am now if I weren’t there before. I think they accept it so comfortably, but trying to deny the person I was when I was immature doesn’t mean that I would be who I am now.” “I don’t think so,” he said.
Next, when asked how she would like to spend the rest of her 30s, Jung So-min said, “I want to live a more comfortable, more resolute and cool life.” “When I was in my 20s, it really felt like a storm was raging, so in my 30s, I feel a little less shaken and more solid.” “I thought I wanted to live as a person with deep roots,” he said.
Regarding her views on marriage, Jung So-min said that she has no desire to get married quickly and said, “I don’t think there is ‘early’ or ‘late’ when it comes to marriage,” and “I just think I will do it when the time comes.” He continued, “I don’t want to do it early or late in terms of timing,” and added, “I just want to go with the flow comfortably.”
What is the reason for having this mindset? Regarding this, Jung So-min said, “I was in my late 20s to early 30s when I started thinking about taking direction in my life. As I think about it, I become like that, and I think I’m in that process right now.”
Jung So-min hopes to fill this year with ‘Mom’s Friend’s Son’ and start acting again next year. Expectations are high to see what kind of form she will return to in the future.
(Seoul = News 1)