Cao Chengyou is really a charismatic actor!
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After the end of the Netflix sci-fi Korean drama "The Myth of Xerxieves", the ratings reached a new low, although the audience complained that the plot and editing were complicated, but still relied on the stable acting skills of Park Shin-hye and Cho Seung-woo to successfully rank among the popular Korean dramas on the Internet. And Cao Chengyou also said that he really did not regret taking the opportunity to perform "The Myth of Xerxyves".
Cho Seung-woo has been playing for more than 20 years, and became popular throughout Asia for playing the ruthless prosecutor "Huang Jimu" in "The Secret Forest", becoming a Korean actor with "ratings guaranteed". What most overseas audiences don't know is that Cho Seung-woo, who is now an A-coffee actor, was the king of the Korean musical theater industry many years ago; Cho Seung-woo, who always maintains a gentlemanly demeanor, even the goddessEs Park Shin-hye and Sun Yizhen are full of praise for him. What other unknown charms does Cao Chengyou have? Let's get to know the charming him through 12 o'clock!
1. Cao Chengyou was born into a musical family
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Cho Seung-woo, who is active as an actor in the Korean film industry, is actually a little-known star of the second generation. Cho Seung-woo's father "Cho Kyung-so" was a famous singer in South Korea in the 70s, but because his parents divorced, Cho Seung-woo was not familiar with his father since he was a child, so he did not rely on his father's star ring, but used his own strength to break through the show business circle.
In addition to his father in the music industry, Cao Chengyou's sister is also a musical theater actor and university professor; Cao Chengyou in middle school is determined to become a musical theater actor and gradually move towards the show business circle because he watched his sister's high school musical "Don Quixote".
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2. Cho Seung-woo is known as the "King of Korean Musical Theater" who has mastered his acting skills to beat Senjin Sung-sung
Cao Chengyou, who originally targeted "musical theater actors", was admitted to the Department of Drama at Dankook University at his own wish.
On the contrary, he lacked interest in film actors, but he was persuaded by the professor to participate in the audition for the movie "The Legend of Chunxiang" during his college years, defeated nearly a thousand actors to become the protagonists of the film, and debuted as a film actor. After that, Cao Chengyou attended the Cannes Film Festival with the director, and the magical debut story still amazes him to this day.
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However, Cao Chengyou did not stop in the film and drama industry, but immediately joined the troupe after filming "The Legend of ChunXiang" and began to be active as a musical actor. Years later, he won praise from the audience for playing the protagonist "Dr. Jackie" in the musical "Doctor Who Became Strange", coupled with the delicate production and strong cast of "Doctor Who", which made the musical theater trend blow in South Korea, and the most popular actor in the play, Cho Seung-woo, also became a household name musical actor.
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In addition to The Classic Musical of South Korea, Cho Seung-woo became famous for his role as a transgender boy "Hedwig" dressed as a man and a woman in the musical "Rock Barbie", and has since established an unshakable position in the musical.
3. Compared with film and drama, Cao Chengyou prefers stage performance
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Cao Chengyou once admitted that for him, he prefers stage performances to making movies. Not only because his childhood dream was to be a stage actor, but he also thought it was easier to be distracted than acting in front of the audience and facing the dark camera lens.
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What's even more surprising is that as an actor, he actually hates being photographed. So much so that there will be a little nervousness before taking pictures, so for him to need to take promotional photos of the film work, is a difficult hurdle in his heart.
4. Thousand Faces Emperor Cao Chengyou
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Cao Chengyou, who has the courage to challenge himself, with his love for acting, and honed his acting skills through different roles, has the thousand-sided acting skills that he can retract freely today! And such a famous acting skill, so that Cao Chengyou once had a perfect acting skill in "The Secret Forest", was named a "rating guarantee" actor by netizens!
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Although Cao Chengyou plays the emotionally incapacitated prosecutor "Huang Shimu" in the play, he is less able to reveal his mood and anger in his expression. But with a slight change of expression, coupled with a bit of arrogant and cold character setting, the perfect interpretation of the characters in the play, and later won the "Baeksang Art Award" in 2018 with "The Secret Forest"!
Cao Chengyou's mature and changeable acting skills are now attributed to his early debut works. He once played a marathon runner with Asperger's disease in the movie "Marathon", running seven kilometers a day to maintain a lean body; in the next movie "Old Thousand", he immediately transformed into a skilled "gambler". He switches freely between roles, but he has never been fixed by a specific image, so he is called a "self-contained" actor by Korean netizens.
5. Cao Chengyou personality gentleman "even the staff take care of it"
Cao Seung-woo is a first-line actor in South Korea, but he has a serious and gentle personality, and he really does not have a star shelf in private! Some TV drama staff who have worked with him have revealed that Cao Chengyou will silently memorize their names, and even when participating in stage performances, he will also write down the names of other actors, and he is also a famous actor in the show business circle who is "very good at taking care of the people around him".
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In some daily actions, the details of Cao Chengyou's careful care of the staff can also be seen. For example, at the press conference of "Secret Forest", Cao Chengyou took the initiative to ask the name of the host, and took the initiative to say, "Thank you so-and-so host, everyone remember to pay more attention to so-and-so." Let the audience call Cao Chengyou really warm!
6. Cao Chengyou loves to help behind the scenes
Audiences who are paying attention to the behind-the-scenes footage of "The Myth of Xerxyphus" will definitely find that Cao Chengyou, who is usually a serious book, is actually super naughty in private! Especially when filming the behind-the-scenes footage of the TV series, in order to help the TV station full of "broadcast weight", he will be busy in the tidbits, and carefully introduce the content and props of the shooting. He even sometimes acts as a host, inviting other actors to interact with the cameras that shoot the behind-the-scenes footage, which is really dedicated.
7. Cao Seung-woo is super popular, park shin hye and Sun Yizhen are certified
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Cao Chengyou not only takes care of the crew with his heart, as long as he observes Cao Chengyou's friendship with the opponent actors, you can know that he is also the popular king of the show business circle!
Park Shin-hye, who recently cooperated with Cao Seung-woo for the second time in "The Myth of Xerxyphus", although the two are separated by ten years, they are not limited by the age gap at all, and they will also play selfies on the shooting set, imitating each other's mantras, and the two who are cat slaves also have a lot of common topics!
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The humorous and intimate Cao Seung-woo, with his all-pervasive affinity, has fans of many cooperative actresses including Park Shin-hye, Sun Yizhen, and Bae Doona. Among them, Cao Seung-woo and Bae Doona got together because of the Korean drama "The Secret Forest", and the two are "close friends" who will have dinner as long as they have time!
8. Cao Chengyou has an old soul living in his heart
This year, Cao Chengyou, who has officially entered the four-character head and becomes the uncle, has revealed that he is a nostalgic person, and he is particularly fascinated by "retro" items that have a human touch, nostalgia and romance, such as photos with Sephia Tone, or nostalgic antiques such as BB Call.
Therefore, rather than modern people who are afraid of trouble and only send messages, he prefers to write letters to the people around him, and there are actors who play with him, and they have all received handwritten letters from Cao Chengyou on social media.
In addition, Cao Chengyou, who likes nostalgic things, does not use social media because he thinks that uploading small things in his life to the Internet makes people a little shy. However, such a special persistence makes fans like him more!
9. Cao Chengyou is a super otaku who regards "taking care of pets" as the joy of life
Cao Chengyou, who originally looked energetic on the stage, was a super otaku in private! Cao Chengyou once revealed that in addition to shooting, he usually stays at home for the rest of the time. In addition to his love of staying at home and watching baseball games broadcast, his greatest interest as a "slave" of four cats and two dogs is to take care of the family's pets.
Once in the behind-the-scenes footage of "The Secret Forest", Cao Chengyou said with a slightly sad expression that he hoped that the shooting would end soon because "the dog at home is waiting for him", which is really a contrasting actor!
10. Cao Chengyou made an exception for the dog to take over the endorsement
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Cao Chengyou, who is very dedicated to the work of actors, once admitted that he did not like to take advertisements, because he thought it was a "wear and tear" of the actor's image. However, Cho Seung-woo, who rarely endorses dogs, has made an exception to take over the publicity ambassador of the "Korean Herding Dog" (also known as the Ghost Dog) because of his love for dogs?
It turns out that Cao Chengyou, who loved dogs, had raised this breed of dog named "Danfeng" in the early days of his debut. Because Heon Seung-woo likes the cute image and appearance of "Danfeng", he began to stand for the "Ghost Exorcism Dog Publicity Society" in South Korea in 2013 and is still the organization's publicity ambassador.
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However, Cao Chengyou's love for dogs is not limited to breed dogs, after the death of his dog "Danfeng", he also went to the shelter in 2021 to adopt a stray dog "Bear Boy", which was about to be euthanized, and called on the public to help stray dogs through the social media of the shelter. Isn't that very loving?
11. Cho Seung-woo is a fan of IU
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Sure enough, the charm of IU, even the calm Cao Chengyou could not resist! Cao Chengyou was once revealed by his friend Cao Zhengyi that he was a fan of IU, and Cao Chengyou was even jealous of Cao Zhengyi and IU filming the TV series "Best Lee Shunxin", jokingly interrogating Cao Zhengyi and saying: "Which onion do you count, actually filming with IU!" Let Cao Zhengyi, who received the text message, be super aggrieved.
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Because there is more than one cute deed in IU, there was a friend of Cao Chengyou who got IU's autographed CD through the relationship and gave it to Cao Chengyou, he even jumped up happily, and the reaction of the two of them usually judged, but also made the friend jokingly say: "I have never seen him so happy in my life."
12. Cao Chengyou is obsessed with watches
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Cao Chengyou, who usually wears simple and neat clothes, in addition to the clothes on his body often causes fans to discuss, the "watch" on the wrist unexpectedly let fans find out that Cao Chengyou is a watch fan!
Cao Chengyou is not only often photographed commuting to and from the theater, but also carries brand names such as Patek Philippe and Rolex. The Timex watch he wore in the TV series "God's Gift - 14 Days" was nicknamed "Cho Seung-woo Watch" by Koreans, making him an adjective for the famous watch indirectly.
In addition, he also shared such a special interest in collecting to friends, specially selected the old Rolex watch born in the same year as a birthday gift on the birthday of the friend, and finally carefully engraved the name and date on the back of the watch to make the gift more commemorative.
Although Cao Chengyou has not yet revealed his upcoming works, many netizens are knocking on the bowl of the return of "The Secret Forest", fans who like Cao Chengyou may wish to review "Secret Forest 1 &2" while looking forward to the release of the sequel with us!