Popular child actor Yeo Jin Goo is all grown up and making a name for himself. His newest role will be playing a boy with a suicidal mother in the film "Shoot My Heart."
The film is based on the literary price-winning 2009 book "Shoot My Heart" by author Jung Yoo Jung. Yeo Jin Goo plays one of two young men in a mental hospital. He has developed a phobia about scissors which relates to the guilt he feels over his mother's suicide attempt.
Lee Min Ki will play his fellow inmate, the heir Seung Min. Lee Min Ki's character does not actually have any psychiatric problems but his family had him committed so they could steal his inheritance. The friendship between the two young men helps them become more confident. This newfound confidence leads them to escape the asylum.
In the film both characters are meant to be 25. While Yeon Jin Goo played a character around that age for the drama "Potato Star 2013 QR3," he is actually only 16. Lee Min Ki on the other hand is 29.
Yeo Jin Goo has been in so many dramas and films in his short career that many consider him a veteran actor.
Yeon Jin Goo played the young Park Yoochun in "Missing You" and the young Kim Soo Hyun in "The Moon Embraces The Sun." He recently added a starring role in the film "Hwayi: A Monster Boy" to his resume. He will next star in the science fiction thriller "Kwon Bob." He will also appear in "Professional Mr. Baek" this year.
The young actor once said his goal as an actor was to "express the complexity of human nature" and his varied roles are helping him to achieve that end.
Lee Min Ki, who had a short-lived role as the doomed indie rocker in "Shut Up Flower Boy Band," also appeared in the dramas "I Really Really Like You" and "Dalja's Spring. His recent films include "Monster" and "Very Ordinary Couple." He just finished playing a role in the thriller "For The Emperor."
Lee Min Ki also seeks to portray as many different characters as he can. In an interview shortly after he completed his role "Monster," he said that he wanted to test his limits and the only way to do so was to take on acting challenges.
"Shoot My Heart" will begin filming in May. Jupiter Films, producers of the successful "The Face Reader," is also producing this "Shoot My Heart."
