[OSENWORLD] Kim Go-eun has praised her You and Everything Else co-star Kim Gun-woo, saying his personality closely resembles that of his character, Kim Sang-hak.
In a recent interview, Kim described Gun-woo as “genuinely gentle and kind,” adding, “Ji-hyun (Park) and I teased him a lot, but he took it all in stride. In that sense, he really felt like Sang-hak himself.”
The Netflix drama follows the lifelong, complicated bond of two friends, Eun-jung (Kim) and Sang-yeon (Park Ji-hyun), whose relationship intertwines love, admiration, jealousy, and resentment. Sang-hak, a senior from their university photography club, becomes a source of tension between them.
Reflecting on the character, Kim admitted she found Sang-hak appealing: “Isn’t Sang-hak just great? Even in their thirties, I thought, ‘Eun-jung should be with a guy like him.’ He struck me as a rare example of real stability. Of course, Eun-jung didn’t end up drawn to him — maybe because Sang-yeon is such an anxious type. But stepping outside the drama, I really felt that Sang-hak was someone she could have built a healthy, steady life with. That was just my personal thought.”
Kim also shared a lighthearted behind-the-scenes anecdote: both she and Kim Gun-woo are alumni of the Korea National University of Arts, where she entered in 2010 and he in 2012. “He’s my junior by two years. On set, I joked, ‘Back in my day, second-years couldn’t even look at upperclassmen in the eye. Times have changed.’ They laughed about it on set,” she recalled.
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