“Lovely Runner” Actor Unintentionally Went Method While Filming “Heartbreaking” Scene As It Happened In Real Life
TvN‘s Lovely Runner (also known as Run Away With Sun-Jae On Piggyback) concluded with its finale this week. This romantic-comedy time-slip show is adapted from the webcomic Tomorrow’s Best by True Beauty screenwriter Lee Si Eun. Actors Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Yoon star as Ryu Sun Jae (also romanized as Ryu Seon Jae) and Im Sol, respectively.
Ryu Seon-Jae (Byeon Woo-Seok) is a top star who has been in the spotlight since his debut. His life seems perfect, but being in the entertainment industry has completely worn him out. Meanwhile, Lim Sol (Kim Hye-Yoon) loves Ryu Seon-Jae as an adoring fan. When she was little, she had an accident. Due to that, she gave up on her dream, but listening to Ryu Seon-Jae’s song on the radio gave her comfort and she became his fan since then. One day, Lim Sol hears breaking news that Ryu Seon-Jae has ended his own life. She feels deep sadness over the tragic news. Miraculously, Lim Sol somehow travels back in time to 15 years in the past. There, she faces Ryu Seon-Jae, who is a 19 year old high school student. She struggles to prevent his tragic future.
— AsianWiki
Still, there are many iconic scenes that will stick with us long after the show’s been off air.
There’s the air-kiss scene…
inhyuk witnessing sunjae sending infinity amount of flying kisses to sol after walking her home and to hide the embarrassment he started doing the same to him his disgusted face im crying #LovelyRunner #LovelyRunnerEp3
— 𐦍 (@ljscentric) April 15, 2024
…to the failed proposal.
remembering how ppl suspected him of killing sunjae when he's literally the biggest sunjae supporter ever 😭#LovelyRunner #LovelyRunnerEp16 pic.twitter.com/PPy8EwkgtQ
— Aya 🌷 (@soljaeluvr) May 28, 2024
Still, one of the most unbelievable scenes that helped bring the main characters together via “tragedy” is when Kim Tae Sung’s (Song Geon Hee) beloved car, Sunny, rolled into the sea.
Their ass being dramatic af to save inhyuk from dying while sunny is sinking in the ocean😭#LovelyRunner #LovelyRunnerEp12 pic.twitter.com/3V2ESUEmxV
— meera (@beensoohyk) May 17, 2024
taesung shooting his own melodrama over sunny will always be so iconic to me like he was truly standing on business pic.twitter.com/hqXokIcoXt
— iz (@hyoonvrse) May 16, 2024
Now, the actors have revealed the shocking behind-the-scenes story behind how this was filmed. N.Flying‘s Seunghyub (also known as Lee Seung Hyub and J.Don), who portrayed ECLIPSE‘s Baek In Hyuk, the best friend of Ryu Sun Jae, recently held interviews.
Seunghyub revealed that Sunny rolling into the sea was scripted, but it was originally intended to be created via CG. Like the incident in the K-Drama, Sunny accidentally rolled in real life, so CG was no longer needed. While everyone panicked, like the characters, by the end, they laughed at the situation.
The scene where Sunny falls into the sea was not actually intended to be filmed that way, but the wire failed to hold it and it ended up going into the sea. I remember that the original plan was to use CG. Despite everyone panicking, we all had a good time filming the scene.
— Seunghyub
Song Geon Hee also shared his POV of the story in an interview. Like Tae Sung, he was genuinely heartbroken about it.
q. any behind story about ‘the drowning sunny’?
geonhee:
“the car fell into the water for realㅡ and it was really hurt my heart…… the scene where taesung screamed “NOOOO-” was actually what i really felt at the moment.(caption: “sunny owner who felt genuinely sad”) pic.twitter.com/j9mpUyI9bx
— anna. (@kdramacokr) May 30, 2024
not geonhee actually mourning sunny more than taesung pls 😭😭
— lou. (@gyj4ws) May 16, 2024
Poor guy became a method actor without meaning to!
