Since he’s an outsider at school, I tried to talk less and capture both his sharpness and the feeling of emptiness in his heart.”Ībout learning math for the role, he said, “The process of learning formulas and filming wasn’t easy, but there are times when I can see the connection as I do it, and think, ‘If I do this, it becomes like this.’ It feels good when that happens.
I didn’t want to look awkward in the role of a math prodigy, so I studied math formulas with an expert math teacher. He seems immature in some ways, but I think that he’s also quite mature in other ways. He continued, “I think Seung Yoo is rather honest and blunt. But the director and writer and senior cast members helped me approach the character.” It was difficult even to establish the character’s tone. In the drama, Baek Seung Yoo got into MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) at an early age, but is currently living quietly as the last-place student at his school. Lee Do Hyun said, “When I first thought about how I’d play Baek Seung Yoo, I was at a loss. It tells the story of a passionate math teacher named Ji Yoon Soo (Im Soo Jung) and a former math prodigy named Baek Seung Yoo (Lee Do Hyun) as they fight to overcome social conventions and prejudices together.
“Melancholia” is a drama that is set in a private school rife with corruption. Lee Do Hyun and Im Soo Jung shared how they prepared for their roles as math prodigy and professor in tvN’s upcoming drama “ Melancholia.”