“I never really had a chance to play a villain before. It also wasn’t fitting for the situation at the time. I usually play a person with a proper image so this was the case where I didn’t get an opportunity due to this. I think that this time around the directors and the writers saw the other side of me and decided to cast me because of it. As an actor I am not close-minded about a particular role I play and that also goes with acting as a villain. I don’t really think of it as the role of a villain. I just look at it as a character inside a drama,” said Jo Hyun Jae.
Jo Hyun Jae doesn’t really divide the role as good or evil. He looks at it as a character that is living inside a drama. That is why the character Han Do Jun in “Yongpal” that he played isn’t such a villain he thought. He thinks that Han Do Jun has a slightly different side to him than the typical villains.
“This character is not a typical villain that you are accustomed to. There is a part where I express the character in my own way. I wanted to show a little more of the inferiority complex in the persona. Since the role I am playing has this thing called inferiority complex and this part of the character directly connects to doing evil deeds. Due to the bad guys around him he becomes even more evil and this is why I think that this character isn’t simple and ignorant as a villain but a little more rational. So, this is why I love this character,” said Jo Hyun Jae.