In the years when he debuted as an idol, wandered in a foreign country, got married, started a family, and was buried by life, Lee Seung-hyun had gray and dark, and there was a low tide, but in the end, time did not treat him thinly. In those years hidden behind the scenes, he took on the family, became a good father, and now, with the blessing of experience, he is back on the stage, peaceful and comfortable, all of which stem from the changes after the experience: ambition is within control, ready to be in place, and ready to let go of everything at any time.
The oversized black leather trench coat and orange leather gloves are both Prada
Light brown shirt Ami Alexandre Mattiussi
Brown woolen trousers Ermenegildo Zegna
Brand new journey
Lee Seung-hyun's hair was flying on the forehead, and he stood quietly at the bow of the ship in front of the background with his hands in his pockets, calmly and calmly, as if he was chopping the waves in some kind of leisurely posture.
He embarked on a new journey that he had never imagined when he threw his whole heart into family life seven years ago. In August this year, "Brother With Thorns" was launched, and in the first episode of the show, Lee Seung-hyun quickly performed "Flying in the Sky" with a deep voice. Before that, he was recognized by the public as a member of the idol group, a new face who had briefly appeared on the screen of a Chinese TV series, and the husband of actor and singer Qi Wei.
People are accustomed to dividing life into A and B sides, A side is closely related to work, career socialization presentation, B side is outside the work, with a strong private attributes of the side, in the lee seung-hyun in the public eye of the period of semi-hidden, his B side infinitely enlarged, covered the A side, and now, when he regained the A side, shown in front of people, everyone suddenly exclaimed: the original talented man, so many years behind the family affairs temporarily closed the wings.
And here in Lee Seung-hyun, everything has a different narrative: "At that time, my feeling was that I didn't want to go to this show so much, and my self-confidence was not there. "But in the end, Lee Seung-hyun made the decision to participate and chose the performance song with the help of Qi Wei." I didn't want to sing the singing and jumping class that everyone thought I would choose, which was a clear direction, and I wanted to challenge a rap with full Chinese, so I found this song. ”
Dark blue print jacket Thom Browne
Dark blue turtleneck knit and dark blue striped trousers are prada
Lee Seung-hyun on the stage combed his back, put on gold-rimmed glasses along the mirror, and stunned the four seats, under the stage, the shape of this first appearance, the eyes and action details during the performance, all have a point of Qi Wei's strength. Before the official stage, as the audience entered the stage, Lee Seung-hyun felt nervous, "but then when he started performing, this tension slowly disappeared." Later, he found that as long as the music was together, he would forget everything. The response to "Flying in the Sky" surprised Lee Seung-hyun, "What I like, my aesthetic is recognized by everyone, so that I can quickly find self-confidence." The first battle was successful, and the next road was up to Lee Seung-hyun to go.
"Brother" (short for "Brother with Thorns") Last performance at the end of the month, our filming coincided with the recording of the program, and during the chat, Lee Seung-hyun's handsome face was slightly tired, which came from his increasingly intensive work schedule and from his anxiety.
"This month I have to learn 6 new songs, and these days I talk to our other brothers every day until 4 a.m., talk about arranging music, and talk about how to distribute songs." Learn a song, just learn its melody, probably memorize a word, and then look at the teleprompter, I don't like to do that. I would like to be able to invest 100%, but with limited time and limited energy. ”
In the show, Lee Seung-hyun is recognized as a good captain, he is decisive, has a strong sense of responsibility, is good at absorbing the strengths of all, from one gong to four gong, leading his team members to repeatedly win the first place in the face of constantly changing rules, looking back, Lee Seung-hyun did not regard all this as pressure, in his memory, every performance left his mark: "Yellow" held an instrument for the first time in the rain; "Flower Festival" is a deep cooperation with Huang Guanzhong, who has known him for many years; "Do You Want to Dance" not only with his own "little idol" Ouyang Jing shared the stage, and through the gathering of everyone's ideas, the adaptation presented a unique taste: "We really spent a lot of thought, a lot of labor in the process of creation, after recording the part of the reality show, back to the dormitory to continue to discuss, the whole journey is very valuable to me." 」 ”
In this way, Lee Seung-hyun immersed himself in the performance, and the coupling of chance and circumstance allowed him to transcend a state of stillness and freezing in the sight of others, and reverted the long series of prefixes of "Qi Wei's husband" and "Lucky's father" to a simple name: Lee Seung-hyun.
Black and white check sweater
Ermenegildo Zegna
Idols of the old days
"Sometimes it's not a decision you make, sometimes it's a fateful arrangement for you, you just stick with it and keep going."
For Lee Seung-hyun, becoming an artist was not his original spontaneous choice. In 2002, Lee Seung-hyun went to South Korea alone to live with his uncle. At that time, the dormitories of several boys who were about to debut with him as members of the group were opposite his uncle's house.
"I was a high school student at the time, and when I came home from class, I would occasionally run into a bunch of boys in the opposite room, and a guy who would later become my agent and try to talk to me. I didn't understand Korean very well, I didn't understand it, and after he talked to my uncle, he actually wanted me to be a member of their group. My uncle talked to my dad, and my dad asked, would you like to try it? I had been in Korea for less than a year, and I didn't have any friends, basically at two o'clock every day, and my uncle felt that at least he could meet friends, so he let me go. ”
In Lee Seung-hyun's mouth, he was a shy, introverted child, with no strengths, and his only hobby was to like rapping. During the interview, he performed an English rap and was selected in a vacuum. Everything is unknown, from scratch. When he learned to dance, he felt clumsy, "like a fool", and lost patience.
"One day, after practicing for almost a few months, after practicing, I had a dance with my members for the first time, a three-minute song from beginning to end, and when I watched the video replay, I suddenly had a wonderful sense of accomplishment." 」
Grey padded coat coat, white print
Stockings and white high-top trainers are both
Onitsuka Tiger Tora Onitsuka
After performing on stage with the members, Lee Seung-hyun felt for the first time a deep love for the stage. The source of action is always before thinking about action, and sometimes love does not need to have definite qualities, as long as it can continuously stimulate the feeling of happiness. However, to this day, out of strict inner standards, Lee Seung-hyun does not think that he belongs to the echelon of dancing excellence.
"Dancing is an art that treats your body as an instrument, expressed according to the music and rhythm you hear. It takes a lot of time for your body to have a basic quality and reaction speed, and only then can I think it looks good at angles and forms. ”
Later, Lee Seung-hyun came to China to develop. He played the male protagonist Yin Tangyao in the TV series "There will be angels for me to love you", and played with actors Yin Tao and Huang Qiusheng in "The Secret History of Yang Guifei", a new environment, which means full openness, mixed with the disorder of interspersed hair, "There was a period of time that there was no way, I felt that I had to make money, otherwise the rent of the house could not be paid." Lee Seung-hyun did not shy away from the embarrassment he had encountered, but more importantly, during that time, he let himself learn to accept the contingencies and impermanence that inevitably existed when a new career started, "I am a person who is particularly willing to accept the challenge, anything can be, you let me go skydiving, you let me go skiing, I am willing to try." 」
Logo printed denim blazer, dark blue shirt,
Dark blue trousers and dark blue print trainers
Both are Louis Vuitton
Break down cognition
One book once wrote, "We can never really understand life in time, because at any given moment we simply cannot find the necessary frame of reference to understand it." That's why it's important to examine memories, rake through the past, and draw strength from your own changes—the gaze of looking back has its own importance. Born as a member of the idol group in the past, all the way to today, Lee Seung-hyun feels that the biggest change he has made is "letting go".
"Everything that happened in the past has happened, everything has happened to guide me to the present, the happiness I have had, the hardships and losses I have had, everything is my life experience, including the whole journey of starting as a combination, and then the acting career has been fluctuating upwards and downwards, I think I can have a mentality now, and I can put it down." 」
What also changed him was family life. When the outside world tries to create a scarce male model with Lee Seung-hyun taking on the behavior of "full-time daddy" after marrying Qi Wei, in a sense, it is because the traditional family structure of "male outside the female protagonist" is too strong, but at the same time, it is also a difficult and difficult simplification of a man when making this choice. Initially, part of the reason for making this choice was that all of Lee Seung-hyun's work was suddenly closed, "I don't want to have it, and I don't want to do it."
As Lee Seung-hyun mentioned in an interview with Yi Lijing, at the beginning, he underwent a lot of psychological pressure and even fell into a state of depression, "but I think that whether it is my wife or my mother-in-law, they have given me great support and understanding, and my wife has also said: 'In fact, working at home will definitely be more difficult than working outside, at least you have a father at home, I can work outside with confidence'."
Large brown check blazer, beige silk shirt,
Large brown check flared trousers and rhinestone embellished necklaces are both Gucci
Loss and disobedience gradually faded, the complicated outside world into a little bit of daily life between father and daughter, Lee Seung-hyun accompanied his daughter to ride a bicycle, play the piano, in this special year last year, he helped his daughter Lucky at home to debug the equipment of online lessons, accompanied her to do homework, "The process of being a father really gave me a lot of parts to train my patience." Communication with the child still makes him confused from time to time, such as the child learning piano to learn the boring repetitive practice stage, do not want to continue, "but as a parent, I can only let her insist, although she does not understand now, there are some things I need to judge for her." 」
The knowledge of emotional preservation between Qi Wei and Qi Wei for many years can also be reduced to a simple word in The Eyes of Lee Seung-hyun: "communication". "Talk about anything, just like a good friend." Some relationships, as soon as they enter marriage, appear in their original form. And Lee Seung-hyun knows that daily communication does not need to consume too much electricity, the relationship is like a long river, rather than waiting for it to be silted up and blocked, it is better to dredge it at all times.
"I learned not to have too many expectations for the future, I just live every day well, and maintain a proper curiosity and expectations for the future." In the showbiz and ecological field competing for fame and fortune, this man with the face of an idol has his own slack wisdom, diligence and seriousness all delivered to his own work itself, "For my work, I need to be complete and be recognized by everyone." Whether or not I can make me red, I don't consider it at all. As long as I can get by, I can show my family, I can show my friends, I don't lose face, it's OK."
Perhaps most people will be surprised by the fact that a person who breaks the stereotype is actually a former idol, a former outsider, and for Lee Seung-hyun, this is the gift of time to him, the world and the self-shook hands and said that everything is the most natural look, "I put the dream of acting career, my ambition for it, what I must become, all let go, and the heart is very balanced, so now back in this work, my mentality is ready, and I can put it down at any time." 」
In any case, the days of accumulation and vigor began, maintaining a proper curiosity about the future, Lee Seung-hyun strolled from life to the stage, free and charming.
Photography by Jiang Nan (Astudio)
Interview and writing by He Kun
Styling Sherry
Fashion Editor Elva
Edited by Fufu Makeup Xiao Jun
Hairstyle Zhang Chunjie
Producer Zhang Wuhan (ASTUDIO)
Production Assistant Zhou Xinjia (ASTUDIO)
Fine Arts Zhang Tianyi (ASTUDIO)
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Fashion assistant Arata