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𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 27 november 2017 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: Los Angeles, California
as the eight members walked out onto the set, the crowd immediately erupted in loud cheers. they took their seats as the fans started calming down a bit.
jungkook, hoseok, jin and jimin sat on the seats set up for them in the back while the other four took the seats up front.
first, they went around introducing themselves and since yuri was sitting in between namjoon and taehyung, she got to go second.
"hi," she laughed sheepishly as the cheers increased, "i'm yuri. it's so nice to see everyone!"
"so i have an interrupter here just in case," ellen said, "but you actually— rm and yuri, you speak english, right?"
"yes, i taught myself english," namjoon answered and yuri waited for him to complete his story before she could respond, not wanting to interrupt him.
"actually my english teacher was a sitcom, friends," he answered.
"oh you watched friends!" ellen said, "so was it mainly just phrases then or you just learned everything?"
"i think back in the days when i was 14 or 15, it was sort of a syndrome for all korean parents to make their kids watch the friends, so i thought i was like the victim at the time," he laughed. he continued to explain how he watched with all the subtitles.
"what about you, yuri?" she turned towards the girl, "you're fluent in english, right?"
"um yeah, but my reason isn't as cool as teaching myself by watching a sitcom," yuri said, "i grew up in canada so i just spoke english."
"you were born in canada? where in canada?"
"uh no, i was born in korea but my parents moved there when i was only a month old— i think. i don't remember because i was a baby. so yeah, i grew up there. i'm from good old toronto," yuri nodded and the crowd cheered, "woah, i didn't know toronto had so many fans."
"so how did you end up in korea then?"
"i went there to visit my brother who works as a music video director there," she started explaining, "and i was visiting him on set on day when a lady came up and asked me if i wanted to audition for their company. it was never something i had really considered, but i decided to go for it."
"and then you moved to korea?" ellen asked, "just like that?"
"yeah, just like that," yuri laughed, "i was only 13 at the time so it was actually a pretty dumb decision but i'm really glad i did it."
"yeah, look at where it got you now," ellen said, "in the biggest band in the world."
"thank you mom and dad for letting me move across the world because i asked," yuri said to the camera.
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"you're fans are called army," ellen said, "what does army stand for?"
"in korean our name means bulletproof boyscouts," namjoon explained.
"i am not a boyscout," yuri coughed under her breath as she sipped her water, making the audience laugh.
"yeah, that's a little error but we don't talk about it," namjoon laughed too, "so bulletproof boyscouts which stands for bts— so like, we got this army beside us so..."
"yes," ellen nodded, "you certainly do have an army. can ya'll believe what happened— it's like... when they got to LAX it's like the beatles were here."
"you're fans are incredible... have you ever gotten together— have you ever hooked up with any of the army?"
yuri choked on her water, putting her cup down on the table as she vigorously shook her head. namjoon hid his face behind his hand out of embarrassment, "we are doing it right now," he tried to dodge.
"no, you know what i mean," ellen said, "i mean have you ever dated one of your army?"
the interpreter translated the question as yuri hid her face behind namjoon, trying not to burst out laughing with embarrassment.
"tell them what hook up means," ellen interjected and yuri looked like she wanted to the floor to open up and swallow her whole.
"not— not... no!" taehyung said immediately, holding up his hand.
"well what about you yuri?" ellen asked, "have you ever like— gotten with one of the boys?"
"NO!" yuri shouted, backing out of her little corner behind namjoon. cringing, she replied, "no no no... they're like my brothers. no, never. ew, that's so gross."
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annie'sthoughts 💭: i had to watch this interview multiple times to write this chapter and it somehow got worse each time.
also yuri called all of them her brothers? wonder what that's about 🤔
