BTS’s RM Required Stitches After Video Accident Performing ‘Come Back To Me’

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Lee Sung Jin was seriously worried that he might be deported for causing injury to a national treasure while filming the video for BTS singer RM’s new solo single “Come Back to Me.” The writer-director and beef The Creator spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about assembling what he called the “Korean Avengers” to make the mini-movie for the first single from RM’s upcoming second solo album, Right place, wrong person (May 24).

The director said he was pleasantly surprised at how Game RM had to rehearse, take notes and put in long hours to get the tone of the footage just right, especially after the potentially disastrous incident that occurred during the filming of the very first scene.

“He (RM) leaned over and his head hit the camera and there was a huge cut in his eye and immediately I thought, ‘Oh great, I’m going to be deported immediately because I just scratched this national treasure,'” Lee said , he was worried. “To his credit, he went to the hospital, got stitches, came back and was ready to go. He was so versatile and open to directions, and I think he pushed me forward too. He came and looked at the monitor and said, ‘Oh, I think we can improve this a little bit.'”

Lee said RM recovered and was back on set the same day for the video, which was filmed over three days in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea. The shoot was the first time Lee had been back to South Korea since elementary school. He recalled that his Korean came back to him pretty quickly because he felt “so comfortable” with the “amazing” crew he had assembled.

Lee was so excited that he assembled an all-star team to shoot the clip, including art director/production designer Ryu Seong-hie (old boy), cinematographer Kim Woo-hyung (assassination) and actress Kim Minha (Pachinko), Emmy-nominated beef Lead actors Joseph Lee and Kang Gilwoo (The glory).

“I think everyone really bought into the idea and it really felt like we were gathering the Korean Avengers,” Lee said THR about the clip, which originally featured some elaborate dance numbers. “I’m so grateful to them for taking the time. I know music videos are always a little hard and a little tedious, and the fact that they showed up and did such incredible performances is really grateful.”

And it was not for nothing that the team was rewarded with some goodies. “They just worked so hard on this thing, and I’m not going to lie, the food in between – in America we got some good, artisanal creations here, but the Korean sophistication just reaches a whole new level, because I could hardly do it expect to go on break and enjoy some of that (Korean food),” the director said. “I was like, ‘Damn, I have to bring this to America.’ It felt really comfortable in every way. I’m really looking forward to filming something in Korea again. I can’t wait to come back.”

Lee accepted the gig after being pleasantly surprised by the song’s “sneaky catchy” vibe, which floats on a bed of acoustic guitars, whistles and the singer’s hushed vocals. “I heard it once and then hummed it to myself all day. I’m like, ‘Man, that’s a catchy tune.'” “It just comes in there,” Lee said. “I was really surprised because it had such a different aesthetic and tone and side to RM that I hadn’t seen before,” he noted of the BTS member, best known for his skills as a rapper is known. “It was so refreshing and unexpected and I was so excited about the idea of ​​making a music video for a song like that.”

As the song got stuck in his head, Lee abandoned his more traditional, originally dance-heavy treatment after realizing that “they really want to try,” and told a layered story, which made sense since RM, 29, is a Big Star was an example of onion-like storytelling beef. “I think he was really interested in trying something new, (and) we just left the dance aspect aside, almost even left the music aside, and focused on what the themes of the song actually were and what kind of story we could “Telling that feels true and relatable, but at the same time somehow mysterious and open to interpretation,” Lee said of the visual, in which RM plays multiple characters, including himself as a baby man, to tell the “strange story about a… “Man trapped in the past, present and future, seemingly unable to leave his own home.”

Watch the “Come Back to Me” video below.