June 1st, 2007 by dd
South Korea’s Jeon Do-yeon won best actress award at the Cannes film festival last week and she’s as modest now as she was before. She has flown under the international radar during her ten year career of local Korean hits and isn’t actively seeking her ticket to global super-stardom. An actress who is devoted to her art and is genuinely humbled by world-wide attention and accolades. Who woulda thunk it?…
Jeon, 34, acclaimed at home for roles ranging from a prostitute with AIDS to a common girl caught in scandalous love affairs in a historic Korean court, took home the award for her role as a newly widowed mother in “Secret Sunshine.”
“I don’t think I’m a world star,” Jeon told a news conference in Seoul after arriving home from France. “I am not going to think that I’m one either.”
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May 29th, 2007 by dd
South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon, who stars in a tragic movie on death and faith, “Secret Sunshine”, won the Cannes filmfest’s best actress award Sunday.
The 34-year-old actress was acclaimed for her brave performance as a grieving wife and mother in the South Korean melodrama, the first picture in four years by Lee Chang-dong, a former South Korean culture minister.
“I can’t believe I’m here,” said Jeon, wearing a silver lame evening gown.
“There are many fabulous actresses here at the festival and I would like to represent them all here tonight. It is a great honour for me to have this prize.”
She has appears in nearly every scene of Lee’s two-and-a-half-hour-long film, portraying Shin-ae, a piano teacher who moves with her son to the hometown of her late husband, whose death is still the source of nearly unbearable pain.
She dotes on her young son as a link to his father and the two have a palpably close relationship. When, in a cruel and unexpected twist in the story, the small boy is abducted and killed, Shin-ae turns to evangelical Christianity on the advice of her pharmacist, a devout believer, as a means of dealing with her grief.
Filled with religious fervour, she decides to visit her son’s murderer in prison to tell him she has forgiven him. But she is horrified when the killer tells her with a serene smile that he has repented and God has already offered him absolution.
“Who is God to forgive him before I have?” she asks her Christian friends in a rage.
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November 19th, 2006 by dd
Who is the actor in Chungmuro today who can mobilize the greatest number of fans? And just how many tickets can be sold on the basis of that actor’s name alone? We asked a group of 12 producers and PR execs that know actors’ commercial value best who in Korea can “open” a movie and ranked the top 20 according to the result. It is the fourth survey of its kind and covers any actor who starred in at least one major film. Read the rest of this entry »
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