Narration : Kim Yoon-seok, Kim Hye-soo, Lee Jung-jae, Jeon Ji-hyun, Kim Hae-sook, Oh Dal-soo, and Kim Soo-hyun.
Reporter : 9 of Korea’s top stars are here today on Movie World.
Narration : Why are they gathered together?
Man : What are you doing?
Ji-hyun : Stealing.
Narration : From the top stars’ tip on being “The Thieves”…
Jung-jae : We made an agreement to get married…
Narration : To Hye-soo and Jung-jae’s wedding plans…
Soo-hyun : I wanted to have her lead.
Narration : And Soo-hyun and Ji-hyun’s story behind their kiss scene…
Hae-sook : That scared me.
Soo-hyun : I’m sorry.
Yoon-seok : One, two, three!
Narration : It’s all here on Movie World.
Chan-seok : Here comes the pro.
Yoon-seok : All of you here are professional thieves.
Woman : What are we stealing?
Yoon-seok : The Tear of the Sun.
Dal-soo : 20 million dollars?
Narration : 10 thieves with one goal of stealing a rare diamond. Jung-jae plays a character named Popeye.
Jung-jae : His plan is to betray Macao and steal the diamond from him. That’s the only thing on his mind.
Narration : Popeye and Macao are always getting into fights.
Director : They make a fun pair.
Narration : Popeye has a secret weapon.
Jung-jae : I have a mustache.
Reporter : A mustache?
Jung-jae : I look like a perv.
Hae-sook : He looks better without it…
Narration : The cast may loathe Jung-jae’s mustache, but there’s one thing they do recognize, which is his acting.
Director : Let’s go with that.
Jung-jae : What? You like that?
Hye-soo : I love Popeye.
Narration : Perhaps that’s why they made this special announcement?
Jung-jae : We made an agreement to get married…
Reporter : You two?
Jung-jae : Yes.
Hye-soo : Should we write a treaty?
Narration : You two would make a great celebrity couple! “The Thieves” is director Lee Eun and Choi Dong-hoon’s third crime movie. But there’s something different about this one.
Yoon-seok : The directors are intense. They were very hard on us, and made us do a lot of stunts.
Jung-jae : I thought I was going to die.
Narration : Hye-soo was the first cast member to shoot a stunt scene.
Director : Let’s do it one more time… No? OK…
Hye-soo : When I said I couldn’t do it, he sounded very disappointed. Hye-soo So I said I’d do it.
Director : You will? OK, this will be the last time.
Narration : Hye-soo was on the verse of collapsing.
Director : I felt bad when I saw that Hye-soo was having difficulties walking after we shot that scene.
Narration : And then…
Yoon-seok : In the movie “Jeon Woo Chi”, I got a lot of scars while filming the fighting scenes with Dong-won. I told myself that I’d rather die than ever be attached to a wire again…
Narration : But to his dismay…
Yoon-seok : I landed on AC’s, jumped from building to building, tied ropes around me and flew around. I don’t know why they made a 40-year-old actor do such a thing. It was miserable.
Narration : But while Yoon-seok was shooting dangerous action scenes, one actor was on cloud 9.
Soo-hyun : I was very nervous. Ji-hyun has never had a kiss scene in her entire acting career. This is her first time.
Narration : Ji-hyun has never had a kiss scene in her 14 years of acting. How did it go?
Soo-hyun : I wanted to have her lead.
Narration : Have anything to say to the director?
Soo-hyun : Thank you!
Ji-hyun : Did you enjoy that?
Narration : Anycall and Jampano make a perfect criminal duo. And…
Yoon-seok : Ji-hyun had to jump off a 12-story building.
Ji-hyun : It was 5 stories.
Reporter : 15m
Ji-hyun : Just 5.
Yoon-seok : It looked much higher. She’s very athletic.
Hye-soo : Definitely.
Narration : Even the athletic Ji-hyun is terrified of wires.
Ji-hyun : I’m so scared.
Director : Your upper body went down first.
Narration : Ji-hyun puts her life on the line a million times. Ji-hyun and Jung-jae were actually a couple 12 years ago.
Jung-jae : She’s become even more beautiful. Maybe she’s always been this pretty.
Narration : But Jung-jae’s love interest is no longer Ji-hyun.
Jung-jae : When I first read the script, I thought I didn’t have a kissing scene, but luckily, I had one with Hye-soo.
Ji-hyun : Every age group has a kissing scene in our movie.
Reporter : The 20s, the 30s…
Hae-sook : And 50s.
Reporter Korea’s beloved actress Hae-sook, has a romantic kissing scene of her own.
Hae-sook : I think I did quite well.
Narration : But that follows a tragic heartbreak.
Hae-sook : The gun shots scared me so much. The director thought it was funny.
Narration : A few Chinese thieves joined in on the diamond hunt as well. Among them was one Korean actor.
Dal-soo - I messed up my line again…
Narration : Dal-soo made a great Chinese thief.
Reporter : Did you already know Chinese? Can you say something for us?
Dal-soo : Let me pull out my notes.
Narration : Find out what he’s saying in the film!
Ji-hyun : I couldn’t give up.
Soo-hyun : I was tense the whole time.
Hae-sook : There’s no seniors here. We’re all thieves.
Narration : And the moment that brought them all together…
Hye-soo Yoon-seok cooked a lot for us.
Hae-sook : He had a whole luggage full of cookware and other supplies.
Narration : Why is Ji-hyun laughing?
Ji-hyun : When I was made ramen, he wouldn’t stop nagging and told me I wasn’t doing it properly.
Hye-soo : Am I interfering in your business?
Narration : Each of the 10 thieves had a plan of their own…
Man : I don’t trust Macao. We’re stealing just the cash.
Jung-jae : We’re taking that diamond.
Ji-hyun : I know something you don’t.
Narration : The past and the goal of each thief is gradually revealed. Who will ultimately take the diamond?
Soo-hyun : “The Thieves” is about love, betrayal, ambition, greed, and dreams. It’s got everything you’re looking for.