Actress Song Hye-kyo attracted attention by revealing that she challenged herself to ‘smoking acting’ for the first time in the film ‘The Nuns’.

‘The Nuns’, which will be released on January 24, 2025, is a spin-off of ‘The Priests’, the 2015 debut film of director Jang Jae-hyun, who joined the ranks of directors who made 10 million movies with ‘The Grave’ last year. It tells the story of people who participate in a forbidden ritual to save a boy possessed by a powerful evil spirit. The production was done by director Kwon Hyuk-jae, who created ‘The Count’, ‘The Troubleshooter’.

At the press and distribution preview held at the Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 20th, Song Hye-kyo shared her thoughts on playing a nun with a completely different image from the nuns portrayed in existing media. In the film, Sister Junia, who she plays, is a character who does not hesitate to swear and smoke.

She said, “This is my first time acting as a smoker in a movie, and since I am a non-actor, I worried a lot about how to act as a smoker. However, when I thought about Sister Junia, it was a necessary setting. It‘s not a good thing, but I practiced smoking a cigarette for a week before filming,” she said with a laugh.

She continued, “Since the first scene of the movie is a smoking scene, I didn’t want to fake smoking. That‘s why I practiced acting a lot while filming, but I also practiced smoking a lot,” and added, “I only thought about Sister Junia, just as the script said. In particular, I only wanted to save a child who was possessed by an evil spirit. I also thought for quite some time about whether I could do that,” he added.



Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com
This article is automatically translated using Google AI. If you notice any inaccuracies, please let us know at allkstar@donga.com.