'Squid Game’ star Jung Ho-yeon speaks with NBCAsianAmerica about her journey from supermodel to actress and shares her most difficult scene to film in the series.
with dark twists for a cash reward of $38 million. In portraying Kang Sae-byeok, a North Korean defector with a knack for pickpocketing and love for family, Jung said she had no fear of taking on an unglamorous role or having to act ugly for her foray into acting.
“Sae-byeok was desperate for the prize money and may have wanted to win, but thinking about the life she led up until what it took to be surrounded by all the dead bodies makes me hesitant to say,” she said. “In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn’t necessarily have to earn the cash prize.
To get into character, Jung said she wrote extensive journals as if she were Sae-byeok to create a rich backstory of her family separation, including details such as the air she would have felt the day she last saw them or the last words they would have shared.In the process, she found similarities between her cheery disposition and Sae-byeok’s stoic nature.
Jung got her start as one of the runners-up in season four of “Korea’s Next Top Model” in 2013, after taking modeling classes since age 15. “I didn’t have anyone to share my good or bad news with,” Jung said. “I was constantly bottling up my loneliness. It was only after I entered the real world that I became firmer.”“I turned to a lot of films and books in hopes of learning more about humanity, which brought me to acting,” she said.
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