The movie ‘The Nuns’, which is expected to show the powerful acting transformations of actress Song Hye-kyo, Jeon Yeo-bin, Lee Jin-wook, and Moon Woo-jin, has been unveiled.

On the afternoon of the 20th, a press conference and press conference for the movie ‘The Nuns’ was held at the Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Song Hye-kyo, Jeon Yeo-bin, Lee Jin-wook, Moon Woo-jin, and director Kwon Hyuk-jae were in attendance.

The movie ‘The Nuns’ is a spin-off of ‘The Priests’. ‘The Nuns’ tells the story of people who perform a forbidden ritual to save Hee-jun (Moon Woo-jin), a boy possessed by a powerful evil spirit.

Director Kwon Hyuk-jae, who said he was completely faithful to the script, said, “I knew that the production company that made ‘The Priests’ had been planning and working on the scenario for a long time. When I received the script, I was swept away and read it, and it was intense. The lingering feeling from the ending was also so great.”

Song Hye-kyo, who leads the drama, plays Sister Yunia who tries to save the boy Hee-jun. Regarding choosing an occult film for her comeback project, she said, “It was fate. After finishing ‘The Glory’, I didn‘t want to go back to a love story,” she revealed.

She continued, “That’s why I was choosing the scenario and script based on the genre,” and explained, “It would be a very difficult challenge and hard, but I was curious if I could show a new side of myself that I didn‘t know about if I did this project.”

Song Hye-kyo also talked about smoking in the film and playing a rough character, saying, “This is my first time doing a smoking scene in a movie. I worried a lot about how to do it as a non-smoker, but when I think of Sister Junia, it was a necessary part. Since it starts with a smoking scene that goes into close-up, I didn’t want to lie and smoke, so I practiced smoking for six months before that,” recalling how she focused on her character.

Jeon Yeo-bin played Sister Michaela, a nun who opposes Sister Junia but eventually becomes her assistant. Regarding swearing at Song Hye-kyo in the drama, he laughed and said, “I can‘t imagine my junior Jeon Yeo-bin, but I think I would have done the same if it were Michaela.”

Regarding how Unia and Michaela come together, Jeon Yeo-bin explained, “At some point, I think they needed Unia and wanted to help her, but I think that’s not simply because they had to stick together as women, but because they had a greater belief that lives had to be saved, so they were able to become one.”

Moon Woo-jin, who plays a possessed and suffering possessed person, said about having to deliver rough lines, “The lines themselves had swear words in them, so when I was acting them, I thought of it as just a scene from a movie. ”There‘s a scene where I have to spit during the scene, and I did that scene with great anxiety,“ he said.

Moon Woo-jin added, ”They allowed me to have counseling before and after filming, and I felt really fine,“ when asked if he had any trauma.

Lee Jin-wook, who plays Father Paul, who believes that he can save the possessed through medicine, said, ”At first, I wondered if I could really live a noble life, but after watching the movie today, I felt like I should live like Junia and Michaela.“ He also expressed satisfaction with the work, saying, ”I didn’t feel any pressure, and I thought that we would get good results because I was working with good actors. I just saw the movie, and I think a lot of people will enjoy it.“

Meanwhile, the movie ‘The Nuns’ is a spin-off of ‘The Priests’. ‘The Nuns’ tells the story of people who perform a forbidden ritual to save Hee-jun (Moon Woo-jin), a boy possessed by a powerful evil spirit. With only one goal in mind to save ‘Hee-jun’, Sister Yunia (Song Hye-kyo) and Sister Michaela (Jeon Yeo-bin) participate in the ritual by any means necessary. Armed with an engaging story and passionate performances, the movie ‘The Nuns’ will be released in theaters nationwide on January 24, 2025.Reporter Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com misty82@donga.com

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