Nam Joo Hyuk and the journey to remove the "portable vase" label to become a youth movie god

In Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Nam Joo Hyuk was praised for his handsome, "smooth" and emotional acting, creating a fever with Korean and international audiences.

From basketball player to showbiz aura

Nam Joo Hyuk was born in 1994 in Busan. Growing up in a poor family, he had a sense of starting a business from an early age. Having an outstanding height of 1.88 m and a talent for sports, he was determined to become a professional basketball player and participated in many professional tournaments since middle school.

However, Nam Joo Hyuk had to give up his sports dream after two surgeries due to injury. To ease the family burden, he tried his hand at showbiz, starting with modeling.

He started walking on the catwalk in 2013 and quickly gained attention thanks to his handsome appearance. With the pedestal is the management company YG K - a small branch of YG Entertainment, Nam Joo Hyuk was chosen to play the MV of the group AkMu, then continued to act in movies and received the first lead role in part 6 of the series. popular school School (School 2015).

In parallel with filming, the actor continued to develop in the fashion segment. Instead of a catwalk as a fashion model, he was invited by brands to take advertising photos and act as a brand representative.

It can be said that in the first years, Nam Joo Hyuk's career was quite smooth. In just 3 short years, he went from a retired basketball player to become the new male god of Korean showbiz.

But with fame, Nam Joo Hyuk also received severe criticism for his poor acting skills. The audience of kimchi even suggested that the actor stop acting, focus only on his modeling career because of his poor portrayal ability and expression, especially with the male lead role in Bride of the Water God (2017).

Youth movie god

But there's one thing that no Korean movie geek can deny, Nam Joo Hyuk is very suitable for acting in school movies, school movies.

With the first male lead role in School 2015, Nam Joo Hyuk's immature acting is still accepted because the character Han Yi An himself is simple, he mainly impresses thanks to his standard appearance "hot school boy". .

Going to the main role of Jung Joon Hyung - a swimming student at the sports university in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2016), Nam Joo Hyuk caused a fever in Southeast Asian countries because of his honest acting, exuding a sense of humor. funny, not pretentious. The story of the "real love drama" with Lee Sung Kyung also makes the emotional interaction between the two main characters sweeter and more romantic. Thanks to this movie, Nam Joo Hyuk's fame increased markedly.

Before Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo, the 28-year-old beauty also had another acclaimed role, which is the supporting male role of Kwon Eun Taek in Cheese In The Trap (2016). In the film, he also plays a handsome college student with a witty personality.

Or with the latest and attracting role of Nam Joo Hyuk in Twenty-Five Twenty-One, he also plays a space science student. Due to family circumstances, the character had to drop out of school and work hard to earn a living. His gentle, emotional and non-acting acting received a good response from the audience.

Contrary to the above student-student roles, every time Nam Joo Hyuk receives a mature male lead role, he is criticized or overwhelmed by the supporting actor. Typically, his main role in Start Up (starring with Suzy) was completely overwhelmed by the supporting male Lee Seon Ho. The role of Water God Ha Baek in Bride of the Water God is considered a black hole in Nam Joo Hyuk's career when he has been subjected to the heaviest criticism since turning to acting.

In the movie "Light In Your Eyes" (2019), the 28-year-old actor co-starred with Han Ji Min and received positive feedback from experts. But unfortunately, this work did not create a media effect, little known to the audience.

Because of the above visual examples, a part of the audience believes that Nam Joo Hyuk is not strong enough to "balance" the main role, only creating an impression when playing supporting roles or playing cheerful and easy-to-play youth roles.

The way out for Nam Joo Hyuk

After a few years of criticism in the drama segment, Nam Joo Hyuk surprised when he suddenly burst into light when he stepped onto the big screen.

In 2018, the actor received his first film role in The Great Battle. When he just announced the cast, his appearance once received skepticism from the audience, especially when the film gathered a talented cast of Korean screen stars such as Jo In Sung, Park Sung Woong, Jung Eun Chae . Nam Joo Hyuk, with his fluctuating and fading acting in the previous TV series, was once likened to an unfortunate low note for the film.

But unexpectedly, the role of General Sa Mool in the Great War of Ansi opened a new turn for the handsome actor. His performance in the film received good feedback from the audience and professionals. His face is also commented to be more suitable for the wide screen than the shimmering, blurry frame of the TV series.

Although he appeared not too much, his performance in his first movie still helped Nam Joo Hyuk be nominated for Best New Actor at a series of prestigious award ceremonies. And the handsome male YG has won most of the nominations he participated in.

In 2018, with his only role in The Great War of Ansi, Nam Joo Hyuk received a series of prestigious awards.

Following the success of the above historical work, Nam Joo Hyuk reunited with senior Han Ji Min in the second movie called Josée. Not receiving many award nominations, nor having a box office as high as The Great War of Ansi, Josée still helped the actor receive many praises for his progress in acting.

With the achievement and good reputation achieved after only two movies, many people believe that the big screen is the way out for Nam Joo Hyuk's unstable career and "more failures than successes" in the television segment. . If he perseveres in developing in the film industry, even if he often plays supporting roles, Nam Joo Hyuk can still become a new star of Chungmuro (a word for the Korean film industry) - like how Choi Woo Sik or Ryu Jun Yeol developed.

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