Actress Song Hye-kyo explained why she chose the film ‘The Nuns’ as her follow-up to ‘The Glory’.

‘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 Excavation’ 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 directed by Kwon Hyuk-jae, who created ‘The Count’, ‘The Fixer’.

At a press and distribution preview held at Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 20th, Song Hye-kyo drew attention when she said, “After finishing filming Netflix‘s ‘The Glory’, I didn’t want to go back to doing a love story again.”

She continued, “So after finishing ‘The Glory’, I was looking at scenarios and scripts by genre. That‘s when I happened to see the scenario called ‘The Nuns’. It was such a tough challenge and it must have been very difficult, but I also wondered if there would be a new side to me that I didn’t know about if I did this work,” he added.

He then said, “I‘ve always enjoyed watching scary movies,” and laughed, saying, “I’ve watched a lot of horror movies since I was little, and my mother likes occult movies, so we watched a lot together since I was little.”


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com
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