South Korean actor Gong Yoo confessed in an interview that filming a zombie apocalypse thriller movie was not easy for him. Director Yeon Sang Ho's "Train To Busan" features about a virus outbreak in Seoul, which forced its people to escape and travel to Busan.
Gong's character, Seok Woo, and his daughter Soo An (played by Kim Soo Ahn) boarded a bullet train bound for Busan for their survival. Without their knowledge, they embarked on a journey with an infected passenger.
"I naturally get scared easily. When I was young, I hated going to haunted houses. So filming with zombies for this movie was too scary for me," Soompi quoted Gong as saying.
Despite knowing the fact that these are not real zombies, the 37-year-old actor admitted he often gets carried away when he come across a mob of zombies while filming "Train To Busan."
"There were so many times a zombie caught up to me while we were filming. I heard the director yell cut and stood in place, but the zombie actors behind me couldn't hear it and kept running after me. So there are lots of behind-the-scenes videos of me looking pretty stupid," Gong said.
The "Train To Busan" actor also commended his co-actors who played as zombies saying that these people had to go through intensive trainings in preparation for the thriller movie.
Meanwhile, the South Korean zombie apocalypse thriller movie was screened at Cannes Film Festival (Midnight) last May 13, which is a first for almost all of the cast members of "Train To Busan."
Gong said the experience was exciting, especially that it was his first time to attend a foreign international film festival. The actor added that he did not accept this movie to showcase a different side of him, but because the project is the first zombie blockbuster in South Korea, Korean Film reported.
"Train To Busan" is slated to hit the theaters of South Korea on July 20.
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