3 Korean actors who changed their physiques and voices to bring better acting performances
Efforts to become an actor are accompanied by bone-cutting pain. Below are stars who stand tall as famous actors after having their body figures and voices changed.
#Lee Do-hyun
Actor Lee Do-hyun is a rising star who has gained keen popularity for his youthful image.
One of the factors that double Lee Do-hyun’s charm is his voice. She shakes the hearts of female fans with a low-pitched voice that fits his sentimental appearance.
However… Surprisingly, his voice is not natural!
Lee Do-hyun once revealed that he went through training to make his high-pitched voice become a low tone, showing off his extraordinary effort to change himself.
Appearing on a broadcast of JTBC’s “Knowing Bros”, Lee Do-hyun shared, “I used to work part-time and practice my vocal and pronunciation during the time I was preparing to take the entrance exam again. Before that, my voice wasn’t this low. My voice was originally high-pitched but after I did the so-called ‘dog breathing’ training, my voice changed and it naturally got lower. I also found it really amazing”.
As if his efforts got paid off, young actor Lee Do-hyun, who started his acting career with “Prison Playbook” in 2017, stood tall as a rising star after getting cast for his first lead role in the 2020 drama “18 Again”. Lee Do-hyun then began to walk on the ‘main character’ path with “Youth of May” and “Melancholia”.
#Kim Woo-bin
Model-turned-actor Kim Woo-bin fixed his “shoulders” for acting.
Kim Woo-bin has a strong image. He showed off his unique charm with a height of 188cm and overwhelmingly Pacific shoulders. The previous two attractive points are natural, but the last one, his shoulders, were actually made with great effort.
Back in his model days, Kim Woo-bin had narrow shoulders because he was really skinny. To bulk and broaden his shoulders, Kim Woo-bin did 200 push-ups a day.
On KBS 2TV’s ‘Problem Child in House‘, celebrities’ fitness trainer Yang Chi-seung said Kim Woo-bin’s amazing “shoulder gangster” transformation is the result of his extremely hard work. He revealed, “We have been together for 10 years since Kim Woo-bin first started out as a model. Initially, he was only tall. His shoulders were very narrow. But year after year, his body got better.”
Kim Woo-bin is also trainer Yang’s favorite student as he has always been polite and well-mannered even when he has become a top actor.
#Lee Soo-hyuk
Lee Soo-hyuk, like Kim Woo-bin, has worked out so hard to transform his body figure after debuting as an actor.
Before making his onscreen debut, Lee Soo-hyuk was known as a top model with a captivating vampire-like charisma. As a runway and pictorial model, Lee Soo-hyuk maintained an extremely thin body in order to pull off various stylings.
Later, after Lee Soo-hyuk began his acting path through the movie ‘The Boy from Ipanema‘, he succeeded in bulking up every time he appeared in a new production. He is now widely recognized as a handsome actor with a muscular body and a cool aura.
Currently, Lee Soo-hyuk is a gym maniac. When he guested on an entertainment program in the past, Lee Soo-hyuk proved his hard work in exercising by showing off his high-level muscle workouts.
