Cast members of ENA's new series "Climax" pose for photos at a press conference in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap
ENA's new series "Climax" is a work that "scratches exactly where it itches," actor Ju Ji-hoon said Tuesday.
"The script felt like giving voice to the desires that everyone carries silently but never dares to speak aloud," the actor said at a press conference in Seoul. "That was what drew me to participate in it."
He portrays Bang Tae-seob, a man who, according to the actor, "has no connection, no ties and no network, and gets knocked around and worn down by the world, yet burns with a desperate ambition to rise above it all, struggling with everything he has."
Tae-seob transforms himself into a prosecutor of relentless ambition and ice-cold judgment, who pursues power at any cost and makes one devastating choice after another in his climb to the top.
Actress Ha Ji-won makes her small-screen return after a four-year absence since the KBS drama "Curtain Call," taking on the role of Choo Sang-ah, a once-celebrated actress and the wife of Tae-seob.
Ha described her character as someone caught between "a glamorous past and an anxious, unstable present living side by side."
She said she aimed to capture the wavering and vulnerable mental status of a woman who seeks to reclaim her former glory, while making coldly calculated decisions to get there.
Actor Ha Ji-won talks at a press conference for ENA's new series "Climax" in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap
"I had been curious about people and human relationships for six, seven years when this project came along," she said. "It felt like it was hitting all the right notes — desires, power and the choices that we all have to face at some point. It just felt like too good a project to pass up."
Source: Korea Times News
