‘My Palpitating Life’ Kang Dong Won, “Playing dad was hard”

Actor Kang Dong Won shared at a recent press conference for his upcoming movie that playing a loving father figure was challenging. In the morning of August 4, 2014, the press conference of the new film "My Palpitating Life" took place in a CGV theater in Ap Goo Jung, Seoul. Film director Lee Jae Yong, actor Kang Dong Won, actress Song Hye Kyo among many others attended the conference and conducted interviews with the reporters. On this day, actor Kang Dong Won said, "Playing a father figure was not easy," he added, "It was the first father character I played. In fact, there was no problem expressing the character's personality, but it was challenging to portray the emotions of the father, because I am not." The upcoming movie "My Palpitating Life" tells a story of a couple, portrayed by actor Kang Dong Won and actress Song Hye Kyo, and their child who has a progeria. The film tells the story of parents who had their first child at the ages of seventeen, and their seventeen year old son who is preparing to say good bye to the world. Kang Dong Won is to play a naïve, loving dad, Dae Soo, in "My Palpitating Life." Song Hye Kyo, who has been taking a break from acting since her successful run of the SBS drama "That Winter, The Wind Blows" in the beginning of last year, is to play Mi Ra, who became a mother at an early age of seventeen but takes good care of her son in "My Palpitating Life." Kang Dong Won and Song Hye Kyo have starred in "Love For Sale" together three years ago, which was a finale piece of the Busan International Film Festival directed by Jang Joon Hwan. "My Palpitating Life" is based on a novel of the same name, written by Kim Ae Ran, which sold 1.4 million copies in the first three months of its publication. The movie "My Palpitating Life" will premiere on September 3, 2014.