Actress Kim Mi-kyung showcased the essence of a career performance through consecutive works.
Kim Mi-kyung played Pan-geum, the maternal grandmother of Ga-young (played by Suzy), an emotion-deficient person, in the recently released Netflix series "Genie, Make A Wish," projecting a warm yet weighty presence.
Pan-geum is a character whose deep love for her granddaughter and years of life are evident, and Kim Mi-kyung stimulated the "tear button" with delicate emotional lines and sincere acting. She also perfectly mastered her distinctive regional dialect acting to maximize the character's realism, completing the drama's emotional line deeply even with a brief appearance.
Next, in the currently airing MBC Friday-Saturday drama "To the Moon," she plays Jeong-im, the mother of Da-hae (played by Lee Sun-bin), who has strong life skills. Even amid harsh realities, she has lived by making honesty, diligence and faithfulness her only assets, showing a model of a "working-class mother" and drawing viewers' empathy.
In particular, a recent broadcast delivered a deep resonance in the relationship between the mother and daughter. Triggered by the 60th birthday party Da-hae prepared, the misunderstandings and wounds that had been hidden were revealed, but the two ultimately reached understanding and reconciliation in the ways they resembled each other.
Kim Mi-kyung conveyed the weight of years and the complex threads of motherhood within restrained expressions, delivering deep emotion through "acting that feels like a life lived," not simple emotional outbursts. The mother-daughter narrative she portrayed warmed living rooms with the heat of love and reconciliation.
Kim Mi-kyung proved a wide acting spectrum by perfectly embodying two different characters: the sincere grandmother in "Genie, Make A Wish" and the life-hardened bus driver mother in "To the Moon." Her ability to fully immerse herself in each character grounds authentic narratives at their center across generations and genres.
Meanwhile, having shown irreplaceable acting prowess through "Genie, Make A Wish" and "To the Moon," Kim Mi-kyung is expected to continue active work going forward.<
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