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TEUM/TE,UM event summary

So, it happened. I attended Korean Conclave fan event starring Carlos Diehz. Here's the summary of that.

Disclaimer : English is not Carlos', nor my first language. The following summary of Q&A is me translating my Korean translation of Carlos' original English interview into English again. It's basically those Google translator video kind of process. Important nuances might've been lost in the process.

Before Q&A session

He said hello like in 3 languages, Korean, Japanese and Chinese or something else? The last one I forgot.

The MC asked him about the overall impression of Seoul : Carlos found it interesting that there are local shops right next to the big company buildings, since in North America usually big corps are taking all spaces around them and local shops are driven out to the entirely different area. Also visiting Thousand-year-old Buddhist temple in the middle of the city was an experience, and place like that in important to the culture, so we need to coexist with those kind of place rather than erase them?

Overall very architecture-focused answer, so fun to remember he really is current architect haha.

Q&A Session

Carlos' favorite line in the movie : "I am what God made me."

Favorite Deleted Scene : Benítez talking with Bellini after Lawrence woke him up. It shows Benítez is not just a love & caring guy, but can defend himself. (He said everyone's scene got cut to not giving away the ending and make the movie more thriller-like, he emphasized everyone's scene got cut one or two times more)

If Lawrence wants to resign, will Benítez allow it? : Yes, he wants to bring peace to Lawrence. (Carlos emphasizes this more in the Q&A session) While Lawrence is a great person to have around, Benítez knows he is tired and stressed. so if he wants to resign, yes.

What kind of determination brought Benítez to the conclave? : Benítez has deep sense of duty. Since the late pope made him cardinal (especially fully knowing him being intersex) he followed the duty associated with the role, thinking it is worth the risk.

Benítez' greatest fear : That's a question nobody had asked! (Really, people?) Since he is very devoted, maybe his biggest fear is "not be able to going back." It is why the place where newly elected pope gets prepared is called the Room of Tears, when you become the pope, you can't going back to your previous life even after death. What Benítez actually felt after knowing he would become the pope might not be exactly the fear but other kind of emotion, but yes, that's his fear.

Did Benítez expect he would become the pope? : No. He came to the conclave not to be the pope but to elect the fittest person. So in the first day he looked around other people, and went Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence.

(cont. from 6.) After the speech, did he? : When in school, if you give a great suggestion the teacher goes like "Then you do it", right? That's exactly what Benítez felt. After the speech he would've been like "Oh my God."

Kind of character he wants to play : Impatient and angry character, more like himself. Maybe villain, maybe ordinary father who wants to defend his family. Or another horror movie, maybe vampire again? But in bigger studio.

Pure evil villain vs villain with backstory? : The latter, most actors would think same.

When would be Benítez' birthday? : Carlos doesn't really believe in horoscope but he thinks Benítez would be some kind of water sign (Aquarius / Pisces), so maybe around January ~ March.

About the ending : Benítez wants to bring peace to Lawrence. When Lawrence visited the Room of Tears, he knows what Lawrence wants to know and tell him that to bring him peace.

About Benítez getting to know he's intersex : Being kind and caring isn't really come from his female organs but it's his own innate ability, but when he finds out he is intersex, he might have thought it as some kind of explanation to his nature. (this was the most trickiest answer to the question, Just want to add Carlos really was trying his best to pick the right word and to be respectful while answering this part.)

If you can play other characters in Conclave who will you play? : Tedesco since he's more emotional and intense, and Sabbadin since he's strategist and controversialist

If Benítez didn't speak up at the auditorium, who would be the pope? : If Benítez didn't speak up, Somebody else will speak up instead (albeit with weaker speech). Maybe Lawrence wouldn't since he's in the middle of that but maybe Bellini would, supporting Lawrence. Eventually Lawrence would be the pope.

As Pope Innocent, what would be his first chosen act as a pope? (rather than papal daily job-ish works) : Accepting Lawrence's resignation, but it would be more personal act rather than papal one. As the pope, expanding women's role in the church.

About getting into the role : When filming Conclave, he had 90's Mexican songs playlist (which he knows well) to relieve stress and get in to the role. He sang and danced while playing that. Merab and Lucian was his next-door trailer neighbors, so he saw Merab dancing at the dressing room and listened Lucian singing. Apparently Lucian's singing voice is really great.

About getting into the role 2 : Since he's Latin American he uses a lot of gestures while talking (as much as Italians) but Benítez isn't, so he practiced not to use hand gestures in front of the mirror.

Lots of Lawrenitez crumbs! Also the image of Carlos!Sabbadin is something I could've never imagined.

+ Adding 2~3 Q&As I didn't add because those are the ones Carlos did answered in other interviews but after writing this I reconsidered and adding them anyways

18. Is there any part of Benítez' characterization that comes from your personal experience : He said no actor can transform into completely different character from themselves, everyone uses some kind of their experience to get into the character. Then he said when he was 19~20 years old he considered joining monastery, and studied saints' life like Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and someone else (think I heard Saint John of somewhere but I couldn't recognize) but a priest advised him to reconsider it after finishing studying architecture. He reconsidered and decided not to join.

+ Add : Heard that it was Don Bosco.

19. The meaning of turtle : Some turtles can change sex, and it might work as the symbol of Benítez being intersex, that's one, and the other is in his deleted lines. He could understand why other scenes got cut but said he cannot understand why this scene got changed, but the line says the turtle being symbol of healing and transformation. Lawrence responds with turtle got run over by cars, saying those hope of healing and transformation gets crashed by daily life. At the ending scene Lawrence returns one of the turtles into the pond, showing that the hope of healing and transformation is restored. At least he thinks it so.

20. About getting into the role 0 : There are two extreme sides of it, one is imagining every aspect of the character's life (like what he eats, what team he likes, something like that) and other is thinking the character is only in the author's text and saying the text convincingly. He asked other actors and they all use some kind of mixture of those two, and he also does like that.

Unboxing the gift

Oh there were lots of gifts. Like 45 people sent Carlos their gifts. (Including me) The organizers brought some of them and Carlos had unboxing session with them. Apparently Carlos expected much less gifts, and he said to the organizers he only brought one(1) carrier to carry them. HAHA. You really underestimated our love.

So many Snoopy plushies! Including one Snoopy head cushion. Carlos asked if it is meant for Kiki or him. Later he concluded he would negotiate with her about that.

Apparently he collects tote bags around the world. So when he visited National Museum of Korea he was about to buy a tote bag from there, but one of the organizers mentioned luckily one of the present he got was the bag.

Imagen Awards mention! He will visit Hollywood at August to attend the event and said he would bring soap & bracelet one of the fan gave to him there...

List of gifts unpacked : A tower commemorating the election of pope Innocent XIV, handmade Benítez & turtle & Carlos plushies, order made jade norigae, paintbrushes & palette, name tag (name written in hangul), paperweight (with Korean traditional star signs), and so on. More gifts were in the backstage so maybe we might have his unboxing video at Instagram later on...

After the unboxing Carlos rewrapped all the gifts by himself, even though the organizers repeatedly said they will rewrap them later so it's okay to leave them opened.

Okay, I'm getting lazy. here's some of the photos I took. (The organizers allowed taking photos only when he enters the stage and unboxing time)

Autographs & Trivia time

So, all the attendees drew a lottery to decide who gets his autographs. My luck was out. Sad, but the event was satisfactory enough, so yeah.

One of the organizers was MC of the event, and while Carlos signing they told a lot of interesting backstories while preparing this event, and stories from Carlos himself.

The organizers tried to bring the music director Bertelmann to the event and actually contacted him, but he was so busy that he couldn't attend.

They also contacted Brían F. O'Byrne, but since he really was interested on summer drama festival and wanted to spend his time with his family, he couldn't come to the event either.

Apparently the person in charge of contacting people was still a student, so Brían said them study well.

When the organizers tried to escort him, he was one step faster and held doors for them, yield more comfortable seats at the restaurant and so on.

Apparently he likes spicier kimchis rather than milder ones?

He talks a lot when he is excited, so when having a meal he eats much slower than others. This also happened while filming Conclave, so that Brían (I heard Brían but apparently others heard Merab so I might be wrong) and Lucian, while finished their meal first, asked him if he's still eating.

He specifically wanted "pork cutlet with kimchi" and the organizers were confused figuring out what food he exactly wants, but thankfully dongaseu (Korean style tonkatsu) was right.

Also, he brought National Museum of Korea his leftover dongaseu and got caught.

When he visited National Museum of Korea he explained the room design to the organizers, specifically how it reduces sounds.

Carlos' daughter worried he might get into trouble while being excited?

About acting style : Ralph Fiennes has to warm up to get into the role, but Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow just play with their phones and get into the role immediately with their cue signs. Lucian Msamati is more of a method actor. You can see him getting into the role while moving to the set, and when he get into the set, he is the role. Carlos once had to explain to one of the extras that he is actually a jovial, good guy.

Ending

Carlos used translator to say "Give a huge applause to the organizers!" Yes, it was a monumental work as a fan organized event, they really deserve them.

Also, he said this event being fan-led event is amazing, and if this can happen, it could happen again.

After he left the stage, he got the mic and said "EXTRA OMNES". Like, he really knows how to make his fans happy.

Okay, that's all. It was very exciting event, I still can't get out of the aftermath.

#awww all of this sounds great!!!

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