Ok Taecyeon's Revelations During Eric Nam Interview

 Ok Taecyeon recently guested on Dive Studio's Daebak Show with Eric Nam and has revealed some interesting stories.

Lee Junho accidentally broke his arm

The two 2PM members are currently acting in airing dramas Heartbeat and King the Land.

During the interview, Eric Nam checked a few stories, including one where Taecyeon had to take a test dressed in stage costume. And photographs have shown how Taecyeon has a scar from a broken arm. The idol told this story.

Long story short… I’m a righty, and the left one’s broken because… We were in Japan. 2PM were doing some promotion for this song called ‘Beautiful,’ and we had like 10-minute break while we had to shoot a stage like record a stage. And we’re just like fooling around as like all the time … We started arm wrestling. Junho was like, ‘Hyung, but I’m a lefty.’ Okay, let’s do left one!

Taecyeon demonstrated the accident as similar to that of the 1987 movie Over the Top with Sylvester Stallone.

Apparently, this supposedly fun arm-wrestling challenge resulted in a broken arm!

JYP has restricted his acting roles

As Taecyeon has starred in various dramas including Vincenzo, Blind and Bring it On Ghost, and now in Heartbeat, we would have thought that he can play any role he wants. During the interview, Eric Nam asked about his acting experience and his dream role. 

I mean, you may have already done it. What is something you haven’t done yet you really want to do?

Taecyeon said that he always dreamed of playing an antagonist but his former company JYP Entertainment would not allow him as they want to maintain his clean image. 

 Um. I mean, back when I was in JYP. I’m not talking sh*t about JYP, by the way! I’m just saying literal fact. They wouldn’t let me do the antagonist. They wouldn’t let me do a villain role. I had to be clean image, very nice or like… I could be a rebel, but you don’t want to be like a serial killer. So, that’s the only dream role that I had before, but then again, I moved company…

But he understands why this was so.

I mean, I understand why. …If it was just me acting like in a villain role and I would get so much hate from doing it … and that might lead to some of the CMs or like commercials that I do would drop. It affects that, and if that’s been affected, then maybe the whole group, 2PM’s image also might go down, so the company was very worried about that, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I understand.’ That’s why I didn’t take the roles, obviously…

When he left his former agency and joined 51K, this opened new opportunities for him and he was able to fulfill that role as Jang Han Seok in Vincenzo.

During a show called Vincenzo, I did some villain roles, so I was very happy and lucky to have that role as one of my works, projects.

Difference between KDrama and American drama

Recently, Ok Taecyeon had a special appearance in the US series, XO, Kitty, which was filmed in Seoul. He played Ocean Park, who worked with Min Ho's mother in a fictional KDrama. Given this experience, Eric Nam asked him what the main difference is when it comes to a Korean drama and an American series. 

READ: Taecyeon's surprise appearance on XO, Kitty

Taecyeon explained that formats are different.

or example, like Korean TV series usually have 16 episodes to shoot, whereas American TV series maybe maximum 12 to 10, and they have less things to shoot. And they don’t have the whole on-air right now kind of thing. It’s not live-streaming, obviously.

Also, US series are ususlly filmed in advance, so his appearance in XO, Kitty was actually filmed a year ago.

 He jokingly said that he's already a different person and might even look different this year.

Watch interview here: