Lee Je Hoon - The male god "Taxi Driver": Admirable career and extremely secretive private life

Recently, the Korean movie Taxi Driver 2 has become a phenomenon that causes a fever on the screen. In which, the male lead Lee Je Hoon also attracted a lot of attention from the audience.

Born in 1984, Lee Je Hoon was drawn to cinema from independent works. But few people know that in order to devote himself to the arts, he chose to give up Korea University - one of the top 3 schools in terms of training quality, to study at Seoul National University of the Arts with top talents. rigorously, because he realized his passion for acting. And since then, his career has continuously flourished.

Lee Je Hoon started his artistic activities in 2007, when he participated in independent short films such as The Pit and the Pendulum or the famous LGBT work Just Friends , creating a certain impression. However, 2011 is considered the time to mark the "peak" of the actor, with two extremely successful works, The Front Line and Bleak Night . Incarnating in two distinct character motifs - one as a soldier in the Korean War and the other as a cynical schoolboy, he won two nominations at the 2011 Grand Bell Awards and competed "with himself" with one category, as well as winning the Best New Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon award the same year.

A year later, he continued to assert his talent through a different role in Architecture 101 , when he transformed into a somewhat shy student with his first love. The huge success in terms of revenue with this film created a foundation for Lee Je Hoon in "My Paparotti" released in 2013. He continued to "rejuvenate" to play the role of a high school boy, but still did not forget to show off his stunts. act with circumstances related to chaebols and gangsters in the underground network of Korean politics.

In 2016, Lee Je Hoon continued to explode with "Signal" - a very new detective and crime-solving work through radio signals. Causing a fever within Korea when the rating gradually increased from 8% at the premiere to 15% at the end of the drama, Signal once again brought Je Hoon's name back, with the strength of voice and radio from the book. suck.

After that, Lee Je Hoon appeared in romantic and gentle works such as Tomorrow with You, I Can Speak ... Recently he also attracted attention with the Move to Heaven project, and made an impression with international audience via Taxi Driver. This is a film with Lee Je Hoon's "role of a lifetime", when he fully embraces all of his abilities so far in his 2 decades of cinematic pursuits, from action, fighting to emotion, heart. physical.

Recently, Lee Je Hoon also established his own company to manage his movie activities. He has also taken on multiple roles, most recently he became a director for a short film project called Unframed . He once shared, "Even if I'm not an actor, I still want to continue doing movies-related work. This is a dream that I have prepared myself for a long time."

Lee Je Hoon: Portrait of a versatile artist

Lee Je Hoon, besides his eye-catching appearance, sunny smile, and impressive voice, in acting, he always knows how to make himself new and interesting by deepening the character's inner self and at the same time forging Train yourself in a similar background to incarnate in the best way.

It is quite easy to see that Lee Je Hoon always challenges himself in different roles. As he shared, "Standing as an actor, I can't avoid trying new paths, because I always have the feeling that if I'm only in one position, it's easy to fall back." Therefore, we constantly see the actor born in 1984 transform through images, from cold and quiet ( Taxi Driver, Bleak Night, The Front Line... ) to cheerful as well as playful (in the show. love works like Architecture 101, I Can Speak...)

In addition, Lee Je Hoon always invests very carefully in his character. As in I Can Speak , he used to hire a private tutor to learn English just for this role. Or in the famous "crucifix" role in Bleak Night , who is a non-smoker but because of the role, he practiced smoking until he lost consciousness after 8 scenes, and had to be rushed to the emergency room.. .

Therefore, Lee Je Hoon has had the opportunity to collaborate with many "seniors" such as Gong Yoo, Im Soo Jung in "Finding My Destiny" or Han Suk Kyu in "My Paparotti" . Kim Hye Soo - the "senior" who collaborated with Lee Je Hoon in "Signal " also said that he "possessed the ' aura' which is a rare voice among actors of his generation. - A movie project with only voices, no images, with similar content to Signal , showing the male artist's multi-talented and diverse transformation ability that he can take on.

Behind the scenes, colleagues also shared that Lee Je Hoon is very meticulous in his work and does not bother when he has to go back and forth many times. In Taxi Driver , he also showed the bravery of a director when he constantly checked the shooting source until he was satisfied, then stopped. This is thanks to Lee Je Hoon's love of cinema: "Every time I go to the cinema, I see my love for cinema again. Every time I watch a movie, I feel the happiest in my life. this life."

With the latest success in episode 10 of Taxi Driver 2 with a rating of 17.7%, Lee Je Hoon is increasingly proving his talent in the film industry. With perfectionism, constantly rising and dedicating herself, Lee Je Hoon will definitely stand out in the upcoming future of Korean cinema.

Privacy

At the beginning of 2022, the internet was buzzing with information that Lee Je Hoon was about to get married with influencer Park Ji Hyun. The poster said that the two had been dating for a long time and decided to get married.

Immediately after this information was rumored, Lee Je Hoon's management company - Company On made an official statement about this. According to Company On, the information that Lee Je Hoon is dating and is about to get married is completely a false rumor. The company representative also said that they will take legal action against unfounded information that seriously affects the artist.

Before that, according to the actor, he had his first girlfriend in his second year of college. "I had my first kiss in the park. At that time, my love was very innocent," he said.

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