Lead Actors Left With Jaws Hanging As Journalist Calls Sexual Harassment Scene “Heart-Fluttering”

A journalist’s baffling question to the lead actors of a popular movie has gone unexpectedly viral on social media, sparking heated discourse.

The incident in question happened during a press conference of Brave Citizen, a 2023 movie starring Shin Hye Sun and Lee Jun Young.

During the press meet, a journalist remarked that some viewers found the “chemistry” between the two lead actors in a certain scene “heart-fluttering” despite it actually showing a disturbing event, and asked if the director ever felt that this could also be the reaction to the scene.

용감한 시민 한수강 하면 이준영이 신혜선 괴롭히고 빌런짓 하는 장면마다 이준영 신혜선 케미 설렌다 락스물 케미다 이런 반응에 ㅈㄴ 경악하고 그뭔씹 취급해서 이상성욕자 씹덕들 수치사하게한것만 생각 남 근데 저같은 사람은 꼴린다고요ㅠㅠ pic.twitter.com/Aop45sdqEv

— 산삼 (@atothez_san3) May 20, 2025

The scene in question actually showed Lee’s character, a high school delinquent, forcing Shin’s character, a teacher, onto his lap and sexually harassing her.

이게 설렜다는거지…?̆̈ 당혹스러울만 했네 pic.twitter.com/dx0ALP0rMy

— No Context Cassiopeia (@W1LLULI3) April 18, 2026

The two actors were left completely flabbergasted by this question, and after taking a moment, Lee Jun Young bluntly responded that none of them felt that way during the scene.

While this particular press conference happened in 2023, it recently resurfaced on social media, sparking renewed backlash and criticism for the journalist. In fact, reactions got so heated that the original post was removed eventually.

Saying that you felt positive heart thumping emotion during assault scene where the victim clearly uncomfortable and the assaulter clearly evil is like.. An insult to their work. Their disbelief expression really fitting. pic.twitter.com/iejRI2jlPn

— babyrice (@Ayu_babyrice) April 19, 2026

I know both of them hold back not to say what the hell or shibal pic.twitter.com/zxHzYc4b70

— Pete 🦋🥀 | May Light protect you (@Pete_4242) April 19, 2026

This was the original scene? I didn’t watch Brave Citizen yet but how is this a 설레 thing?
No wonder Junyoung and Haesun was weirded out with that statement 😬

— 미라 🐥👑 (@miraliyana) April 19, 2026

imagine saying this about an assault scene…

— sia (@obsessuho) April 18, 2026

Meanwhile, Brave Citizen is an action-comedy film adapted from a webtoon with the same name. The film follows an aspiring boxer and teacher, Si Min (played by Shin Hye Sun), who transforms into a vigilante at night and fights against a school bully, Su Gang (Lee Jun Young).