Actress Kyung Soo-jin has taken on her first lead role in a commercial film in 13 years since her debut. It is through the mystery comedy chase drama ‘Baeksoo Apartment’, which was released on the 26th.

‘Baeksoo Apartment’, which Kyung Soo-jin said she “gave herself”, is about an unemployed woman named Mirror (Kyung Soo-jin), who stirs up trouble in the neighborhood, who goes on an investigation with her neighbors to find the cause of the noise between floors that echoes through her apartment every 4 a.m. Kyung Soo-jin, who introduced the mirror in the play as “a character just like me who cannot stand injustice,” laughed, saying, “I put my ‘real self’ into the movie.” O“It was my first solo lead role, so it was a lot of pressure,”

The person who played a decisive role in helping Kyung Soo-jin establish herself as a solo lead was actor Ma Dong-seok. Ma Dong-seok, the producer of ‘Baeksoo Apartment’, strongly recommended ‘Baeksoo Apartment’ to Kyung Soo-jin, with whom he had worked together in ‘Demon Hunters: Holy Night’ (released in April).”

“While filming ‘Demon Hunters: Holy Night’, senior Ma kept telling me, ‘There is a role that would suit you perfectly,’and that was ‘Baeksoo Apartment’. Actually, when I read the script, I liked how vivid it was not only my character but all the characters.”

As a “single lead,” he confessed that as much as he was excited, “there was also a lot of pressure.” He said that he and director Lee Roo-da, who is making his film debut with this film, relied on each other and “moved almost as if we were one body.”

“I was also very physically exhausted. I was in everything from the first scene to the last. I didn’t even go home for a month and a half while filming in Suncheon and stayed in Suncheon the whole time. I couldn‘t eat well because of the pressure, so I even ran every morning to build up my stamina.”

O“I even received the part-time wages myself”

With the solid appearance he showed on variety shows, he even earned the nickname ‘Chief of Police’. He also mentioned that he had a similar experience to Mirror in the drama, who tries to solve the noise problem between floors himself.

“Before my debut, I worked part-time as a non-regular telemarketer. When I didn’t get my first month‘s salary, I complained to the company, and they said they would pay me the next month. So I trusted them and worked, but they still didn’t pay me the next month. I thought this couldn‘t go on, so I led other non-regular employees who hadn’t received their pay and sat in front of the company every day to protest. That‘s how I ended up accepting it.”

However, he raised a fuss about the title of ‘unemployed’ used for Mirror in the drama. Mirror, who is responsible for raising her younger brother’s child, her nephew, emphasized, “I‘m not unemployed.”

“I’m a housewife who takes full responsibility for raising children and doing housework. I don‘t think you should consider a housewife unemployed just because she doesn’t work outside the home. Isn‘t being a housewife also a job and an occupation? Mirror is not unemployed, but just an ‘unemployed rapper!”


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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