Actor Kim Tae-ri revealed her connection with senior actress Yeom Hye-ran.
On the 8th, Park Chan-wook and Kim Tae-ri appeared on "Masters Talk," which was released on Cine21's YouTube channel. Director Park Chan-wook is currently meeting audiences with his new film No Other Choice. Kim Tae-ri, who had formed a bond with him in the past on The Handmaiden, talked with director Park Chan-wook about the film.
No Other Choice tells the story of office worker Mansu (Lee Byung-hun), whose life had been so satisfying that he felt "all was achieved," who is suddenly fired and then, to protect his wife and two children, to hold on to the home he worked hard to obtain, and to prepare his own war toward reemployment. Alongside Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin appears as Mansu's wife Miri, Park Hee-soon as Mansu's rival Seon-chul, Lee Sung-min as another rival Beom-mo, and Yeom Hye-ran appears as Beom-mo's wife Ara.
Among them, Kim Tae-ri had an unusual bond with Yeom Hye-ran. They met when Kim was starting out as an actress. Kim Tae-ri said, "I wanted to enter Daehangno. At that time, a senior from school was a friend of Hye-ran unni. The unni was performing with a troupe and asked if I needed an operator; she said they couldn't pay much, but would that be okay. I thought, what's the difference, so I went and did it."
She continued, "While doing that work, I grew to really like the troupe. At first I wasn't an actor. But the troupe hadn't been recruiting new members for a very long time. Even then, the period of large-scale new member recruitment had passed. So I wondered how to join the troupe, and they said they weren't recruiting. But they said operators were needed and staff were continuously needed, so they told me to be used as labor. One day they even introduced me to others as a troupe member."
Kim Tae-ri said, "Then I also acted. But I never acted with unni. When unni was acting I was only staff, and I wanted to work together so much. When unni became famous and we met at awards shows, I couldn't have been happier. She was someone who was with me at the start of my career."
She also said, "Lately we've talked a lot about other things, and unni told me she was a great creator who sharply awakened the director's sense and thinking. I felt the same. What I liked about The Handmaiden was the 'flavor of the words.' I asked unni when watching the film whether the script originally had 'yogae' when she looks for the pistol and says 'this,' because she is very sharp. She said changing 'igeo' to 'yo' by only altering that made a person look different. It strangely makes it seem like acting while I thought there must have been specific adjustments," adding a laugh.
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