Lee Mi Sook has shared a funny story from the set of one of her best-known dramas.
On November 13, a video titled "Aloha Hawaii, the Island of Memories I Returned to After 30 Years (feat. An Unexpected Hospital Trip)" was posted on her YouTube channel, Lee Mi Sook_Shy Mi Sook. In it, the actress travels to Hawaii with her production team and looks back on her career, after hearing that a drama she filmed long ago is now airing there.
Lee Mi Sook | Photo: TV Daily
"The first time in my life I played a mother was in East of Eden," she said. In the 2008 MBC drama, she played Yang Chun Hee, the mother of Song Seung Heon's character.
"I couldn't see Song Seung Heon, who played my son, as my son. I kept seeing him as a man," she confessed. "In the end, the director stopped me a lot. He said, 'Ms. Lee Mi Sook, you can't look at him with those eyes. You're too full of personal feelings, and first of all, those aren't a mother's eyes.'"
Song Seung Heon | Photo: Sports Chosun
Acting the moment out, she added that she then asked the director, "Should I let my hair down, then?" His answer: "Oh, then it'll be even worse. Please calm down and look at him with a mother's eyes." The story left her crew in stitches.
East of Eden aired on MBC in 2008 and follows the crossed fates and revenge of two men born at the same time in the same hospital.
