Never staying the same face even once, she does not fear challenges. Actress Park Boyoung's challenge has borne meaningful fruit. Through this, Park Boyoung, who will once again take off and challenge herself, is anticipated.
Park Boyoung gave an intense performance in dual roles in the tvN weekend drama Our Unwritten Seoul (written by Lee Kang, directed by Park Shin-woo), a romantic coming-of-age drama in which twin sisters who are different in everything except their faces swap lives with a lie to find true love and life.
Park Boyoung challenged a dual role for the first time since her debut, playing twin sisters Yoo Miji and Yoo Mirae, who are different in everything except their faces. Park Boyoung heightened immersion by precisely tracing the gaps between characters and the textures of their psychology in the starkly contrasting daily lives of the twin sisters who exchanged lives. She built the characters through actions rather than words, with the rhythm of gaze and breath, flexibly expressing the psychological gap between Yoo Miji and Yoo Mirae, once again proving the title of a "reliable" actor.
Our Unwritten Seoul, which recorded a peak viewership rating of 8.4% (episode 12, Nielsen Korea nationwide), became a "career-defining" drama in the hearts of many and was also a defining work for Park Boyoung. Through a fresh and bold challenge that achieved much, Park Boyoung reaped a bountiful reward by winning the best actress award in the broadcast category at the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards.
Our Unwritten Seoul was a big challenge for Park Boyoung. For Park Boyoung, who had naturally matched her breath with co-stars by receiving their energy and acting, doing reactions to empty air and matching eye lines for CG work as not just two roles but effectively four was a challenge of a new dimension. In a post-broadcast interview, Park Boyoung said, "I realized that until now I had been acting without calculating much. It was not easy to be the one who had to calculate alone in an ensemble I had not tried to match," and through work that required a high degree of concentration at every moment, Park Boyoung took another step forward.
As a result, she finished successfully and received praise as a "career-defining work" and a "career-defining character," but there was also brutal growing pain that the actress herself had to endure. After winning the best actress award at the Baeksang Arts Awards, Park Boyoung honestly confessed, "I remember the drama's planning intent. It was about whether you have ever thought someone else's life looked better than your own. To someone, my life might look like a good life, but I, too, have thought someone else's life looked better than mine. I tended to see only the talent others had and not their efforts," and, "I really hated competition, and there were many times when proving my value and usefulness every moment was overwhelming and hard, but when I looked around there were so many actors who were excellent that I didn't want to fall behind and wanted to do well; perhaps it was the stubborn desire not to lose that drove me to work hard, and those days of effort made who I am now."
Like the message of Our Unwritten Seoul, which deals with a narrative of deprivation and healing experienced by comparing others' lives with one's own, Park Boyoung also once again proved her own value.
Park Boyoung's mindset has not changed. She is currently delivering a fresh shock by showing a darker side through Disney+ Gold Land. Even in her first thriller challenge, Park Boyoung is once again surprising the public with an intense performance that changes faces. As an actor who is not afraid to challenge herself and breaks herself down to move forward, the infinite spectrum she will show in the future is anticipated.
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