'Notes from the Last Row' stars compare notes

Choi Min-sik went in with one image for his character: meat on a hook. "I wanted to strip this man bare and hang him up like a slab of meat," he said of Heo Mun-oh, the failed novelist turned embittered literature professor at the center of "Notes from the Last Row." "He's a professor, an author. But learning has nothing to do with character. He's just a lump of desire." Released June 26 on Netflix, the six-part suspense drama from director Kim Gyu-tae adapts a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga. Mun-

By The Korea Herald