NA: After a 4 month voyage, the veil is removed on The Pirates.

Caption: Actors gathered on a huge boat

NA: On the day the first location was unveiled at an open air studio in Namyangju, we met the stars of the film "The Pirates".

Caption: A grand marine history Blockbuster film The Pirates

NA: What do the main characters, already famous from their posters, look like in reality?

Ye-jin: Taking charge when we go on retreats.

Caption: Taking charge when we go on retreats.

Woman: Insufficient strength.

Caption: Insufficient strength

Ye-jin: Never enough.

Caption: Never enough strength

Sulli: A special man.

Caption: A special man

Ye-jin: They fight.

Caption: They fight.

Caption: Who is Sulli's special man?

NA: The dizzying interview with this pirate crew starts now.

Caption: Dizzying Interview

Ji-won: This might be the first of its type among Korean historical works.

Caption: Yoo Ji-won

Caption: Kim Nam-gil Son Ye-jin

Caption: Sulli Yoo Hae-jin

Ji-won: A grand marine blockbuster,

we have the leads from The Pirates.

Hello.

Lead actors: Hello.

Hae-jin: It feels like you're reading the news.

Caption: It feels like a news interview

Ji-won: I did the news for a long time.

Hae-jin: Ah, really?

Ji-won: Should I carry on in a news-like tone?

Caption: Carrying on like it's the news…

Nam-gil: Yes, it's good.

Ji-won: Like a news interview.

Hae-jin: This is Nogodan Peak of Mt. Jiri.

Caption: This is Nogodan Peak of Mt. Jiri.

NA: The Pirates begins with Choseon Dynasty founding King Yi Seong-gye's royal seal, received from Ming China, being swallowed by a grey whale.

Caption: Film <The Pirates: Bandits go to Sea>

To catch the grey whale that swallowed the royal seal, bandits join pirates

in this noisy adventure historic marine blockbuster.

NA: When a huge bounty is placed on the grey whale, greedy bandits and pirates comb the seas and face its dangers and adventure together.

NA: Now I'm curious about each actor's role.

Nam-gil: I play an old soldier from Koryeo who, in the transition to Choseon, opposed Yi Seong-gye's ascention to the throne and was kicked out of the military to become a brigand in the mountains, and his name is Jang Sa-jeong.

Caption: Kim Gil-nam plays brigand Jang Sa-jeong

NA: After the drama The Great Queen Seondeok, Kim Gil-nam tries his hand at a historical film.

Caption: After the drama The Great Queen Seondeok, Kim Gil-nam tries his hand at a historical film

NA: Superior to Bidam, the seafaring brigand Jang Sa-jeong, the character is similar to Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Caption: A character associated with

Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean

Ji-won: Son Ye-jin, what kind of character do you play?

Ye-jin: She's a female pirate captain, so she has a lot of charisma, but as a woman she is also kind to the weak, so she's kind of a hero.

Caption: Charismatic pirate captain, Son Ye-jin is the captain Yeo Wol

Ji-won: Is that similar to your own personality? A determined character?

Ye-jin: In reality I do have a bit of a masculine streak.

Caption: Son Ye-jin has a masculine side?

Ji-won: Like leading gatherings, or something.

Ye-jin: I'm not like that, but I take charge when we go on retreats.

Caption: Taking charge when we go on retreats.

Nam-gil: Her personality…

Ye-jin: Even if I can't be the boss.

Sulli: My character is Ye-jin's right-hand-woman.

Caption: Captain Ye-jin's right-hand-woman Heuk Myo, played by Sulli

Ji-won: Films are very different from dramas, aren't they?

Sulli: I was really young then, so I had very few lines and just had to smile a lot...

Caption: No lines Just smiling?

Nam-gil: So that's why you laugh a lot on set.

Caption: So that's why you laugh a lot on set

Ji-won: Only needing a smile…

Caption: Sulli, princess Seonhwa from Seo Dong Yo

NA: Sulli, with her attractive smile.

She was only 12 when she played princess Seonhwa in Seo Dong Yo.

Caption: More cute is impossible

Ji-won: Your hair style is very unique.

Sulli: They're eggs. Eggs on top of each other.

Caption: They're eggs

NA: Sulli's special egg-style hairdo, it looks like something only she could pull off.

Caption: Sulli's special egg-style hairdo

Ji-won: Yoo Hae-jin, I'm curious about your character.

Hae-jin: He's called Chul-bong.

He's a pirate who became a brigand because of his bad seasickness, but now he ends up back on the sea.

Caption: A pirate with bad seasickness

Caption: A pirate with seasickness? A brigand!

Yoo Hae-jin plays Chul-bong

Ji-won: Doesn't he get sick again when he's back on the sea?

Hae-jin: Of course he does.

Ji-won: Ye-jin, this is your first action film, so I wonder what kind of scenes you have.

Ye-jin: Lee Kyung-young is the original pirate captain. I was the first mate, but I take over during a mutiny. Compared to a man's strength, I have more speed and flexibility. So there will be some acrobatic scenes in there.

Caption: Usurping captain Lee Kyung-young's command

Son Ye-jin becomes a pirate captain

Caption: Son Ye-jin's acrobatic action

Ji-won: Aren't there times when you feel you're not strong enough?

Caption: Aren't there times when you feel you're not strong enough?

Ye-jin: Never enough.

Caption: Never enough.

Ye-jin: It's like a ride where we go up, then crash down and get wet, and I got muscle pains, so I needed treatment.

Nam-gil: That's right.

Caption: The boat bucked like a theme park ride and they get wet while filming

NA: Ye-jin really has a tough time in her first action film.

Ye-jin: It was really difficult.

Nam-gil: She's quite stubborn, so she tries to do everything herself.

Hae-jin: There was also one time, diving off the boat...

Caption: Even jumping into the sea herself

Sulli: Yeah, that too.

Ye-jin: I was really scared that time.

Ji-won: Did you swim yourself?

Sulli: You didn't look scared at all.

NA: One thing about The Pirates that has drawn attention,

Han Yi-soo: Run.

Caption: Run.

NA: is the reunion of Son Ye-jin and Kim Gil-nam after the drama Shark.

Han Yi-soo: If it's too difficult, you can still run away.

Caption: If it's too difficult, you can still run away.

NA: After that, shouldn't they be able to communicate with just their eyes?

Ji-won: You worked together in Shark, and now with the whale, it's another fish-themed collaboration...

Caption: Shark Whale

Caption: They work together with fish?

Nam-gil: We didn't intend it this way, but there is a scene in the film where me and Ye-jin catch a shark.

Caption: Even a shark-catching scene

Ji-won: Ah, really? Did the director put that in on purpose?

Nam-gil: No, no, it was already part of the film, but we've laughed about that too.

Caption: To get the feeling of being on the sea,

a 300,000,000 won 3 piece set was constructed

NA: The boat in The Pirates is 32 meters long, and a 9 tall rig was constructed to give it realistic movement, and one of these boats cost 300,000,000 won to build.

Caption: Just like in Pirates of the Caribbean

the boat can list

Ji-won: Sulli, I heard you have a fear of water, so wasn't it difficult?

Caption: Sulli has a fear of water?

Nam-gil: Really?

Sulli: Luckily, I never have to fall in the water.

Caption: Luckily, she never falls in the water

Ji-won: Ah, really?

Sulli: I wasn't there when everyone else fell in the water, because I'd been kidnapped at that point.

Caption: Jealousy…

Nam-gil: She was kidnapped.

Sulli: I was happy, but I also felt a bit guilty.

Caption: I was happy, but I also felt a bit guilty.

Ji-won: There are a lot of men in the film.

Sulli: Yes.

Ji-won: Which of them was kindest to you?

Caption: Which of the men was kindest to Sulli?

Ji-won: Or can't you really pick a particular man…?

Sulli: A special man...

Ye-jin: They fight.

Caption: They fight.

Caption: Ahem...

Sulli: The cough...

Caption: The cough...

NA: Was the cough effective?

Ji-won: She's not saying.

NA: Oh, it seems it worked.

Hae-jin, you're lucky today.

Nam-gil: Viewers of I Like Movies, as the year 2013 draws to an end, we hope you finish it well.

And in 2014, we wish you the best of luck, and hope you can spend the year with us.

Caption: The year 2013 is almost over Finish the year well

Caption: In the upcoming year 2014, we wish you luck and hope you can enjoy the year with The Pirates

All: Hooray for The Pirates!

Caption: Hooray for The Pirates!

NA: Look forward to The Pirates, to be released in summer 2014.