Compliments for Choi Seung Hyun are endless for his role of student soldier lieutenant Oh Jang Bum in the movie Into the Gunfire, which depicted an emotional true story about 71 student soldiers during the Korean War in 1950. His senior actors Kim Seung Woo, Cha Seung Won, Kwon Sang Woo, who suffered and rejoiced together with him for six months, also join in with their opinions. To this reaction, Choi Seung Hyun exaggerates, “It’s a great honor, but what if they’re disappointed.”
In an interview with No Cut news, Choi Seung Hyun humbly stated, “Honestly how good could my acting be. It’s just that I was able to spend some glorious time doing something my peers could be envious of. It’s an honor just being able to watch and learn.”

Where is there such thing as results without effort. “I lived as a 17-year-old boy during the time I was filming. Everyday when I got back to my dorm I would practice my childlike expression in the mirror so that my acting wouldn’t seem forced. A lot of expressions I wasn’t even aware of came out, and I was able to discover a new image. I would often talk on the phone with the director at night for 3-4 hours before falling asleep.” (laughs)

Choi Seung Hyun felt greed for the first time about acting while working on this project. He said, “Musician TOP always had some of my own coloring to him, but acting is a totally new thing I’m learning,” and, “I want to fill what is lacking in me, and a thirst for acting is slowly forming in me.”

The reason he agreed to do Into the Gunfire was that he felt a conviction that he could fill something inside of him through this project. It was a big deal that he had chosen to act as he was at a crossroads between singer and actor.

Choi Seung Hyun said, “It was when my solo album should have been released, but the scenario was meaningful and I realized a lot,” and recalled that, “President Yang Hyun Suk said to me, ‘If it’s something you really want to do and it’s meaningful, I won’t object. Just don’t do it halfheartedly,’ and gave me a lot of strength.”



Also he found a similarity between himself and his character in that, “If 11-year-old Choi Seung Hyun wrote rap lyrics because he enjoyed hip-hop, Jang Bum wrote letters to his mother in order to settle his stifled heart. These images strangely coincided.” Though the character Jang Bum was 17-years-old, the way he behaved older than he was also coincided with his own image.