Actor Yeom Hye-ran, through the film "My Name," expressed her feelings about transforming into a Jeju mother following When Life Gives You Tangerines.
On the afternoon of the 2nd, at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, a press screening and press conference for the film My Name (director Jeong Ji-young, produced by Let's Film·Aura Pictures, co-produced by M eighty-three·Viva Film, distributed by CJ CGV·Wide Release) were held. Director Jeong Ji-young and actors Yeom Hye-ran, Shin Woo-bin, Choi Joon-woo, and Park Ji-bin attended and, under the moderation of broadcaster Kim Kyung-sik, talked about the film.
My Name is a well-made mystery drama film that modernly unravels the Jeju April 3 incident through the two generations of 18-year-old son Yeong-ok (Shin Woo-bin), who wants to erase his uncouth name, and mother Yeong-ok (Yeom Hye-ran), who raises a son nearly a generation younger. Yeom Hye-ran, who was praised for the Netflix When Life Gives You Tangerines, teamed with director Jeong Ji-young, who has cinematically explored the pains of the times, in a work that raises expectations alongside rising actors including former child actor Park Ji-bin, Shin Woo-bin, and Choi Joon-woo.
Yeom Hye-ran, following Gwang-rye in When Life Gives You Tangerines, transforms once again into Jeju "eomeong" as Jeong-sun in My Name. She jokingly said, "Compared with Gwang-rye, Jeong-sun lived longer."
At the same time, she said, "It was very difficult to express such great pain. Among the things the director told me, the common point was that she was a mother who endured the torturous history of Korea with her whole body. As for differences, he said he wanted the character to resemble our present-day lives if possible."
She added, "It's okay to live forgetting; it's just uncomfortable, and you can live without necessarily doing that. So I wanted to show a character who didn't have pain from the start but had life inconveniences and then resolved them."
My Name, in which Yeom Hye-ran delivered a passionate performance, opens in theaters nationwide on the 15th.
[Photo] OSEN reporter Ji Hyung-joon.
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