‘The First Night With The Duke’ has managed to become popular amongst audiences ever since the first episode debuted online. With just two episodes left until the finale, lead actor
Seohyun is opening up about how she prepared for the role!
Preparing to play the female lead
As per reports from Soompi, the leading team of ‘The First Night With The Duke’ delved into all that they went through to prepare for their respective role properly. Seohyun, who plays the female lead who gets transported into her favourite webtoon, shared how she focused on creating three different personas for the role.
Talking all about how she had to create separate characteristics for all three of her roles on screen, she detailed on how the three characters were dictinct. “K, the wounded college student, was hurt because she trusted others," she explained and added, "Pre-possession Sun Chaek, who lives an abundant yet monotonous and empty life; and post-possession Sun Chaek, who lives with a bold and proactive attitude."
She also talked about how she created different personas and characteristics for each of these characters to ensure that the audience can differentiate between all of them, even though the face is the same.
Fellow actor Taecyeon also shares the same ordealEven Taecyeon, who plays the character of Yi Beon in the Korean drama and stars alongside Seohyun as her love interest, shared a similar ordeal. He talked about his character’s two contrasting personalities and shared how he had to switch between being cold and pure-hearted.
He shared that he had to talk with the director of the series beforehand to understand his character better due to its complexities. “There were many scenes where he was so cruel that it was hard to tell if he was a hero or a villain, but I wanted to maintain his underlying gravity in every scene. I tried to express Yi Beon’s emotions more through his actions and eyes than through words”, he shared.
The series is nearing its finale, with the final two episodes all set to release on July 16 and 17.