Jung Ho Yeon’s Modeling Career Helped Her Connect To Her Character Kang Sae Byeok In “Squid Game”—Here’s How
Jung Ho Yeon’s Modeling Career Helped Her Connect To Her Character Kang Sae Byeok In “Squid Game”—Here’s How
She’s also learned a lot from Kang Sae Byeok through their differences.
While Kang Sae Byeok is just a character she plays, Jung Ho Yeon recently explained how she relates to her fairly easily. In an interview with TIME, Jung Ho Yeon conveyed how both she and her character went through some lonely times. As many know, the character of Kang Sae Byeok was a North Korean defector who participates in the deadly games in order to help bring the rest of her family out of North Korea. While that seems far away from the life of Jung Ho Yeon, she clarified that in her life of modeling, she had to live far from her family.
I think that Sae Byeok and I are similar in that we have experienced living somewhere far from home, which means that even when you feel very happy or sad, you can’t share those emotions with friends and family but just keep it to yourself. I also experienced this loneliness when I was modeling overseas so in the regard I could really relate to her.
— Jung Ho Yeon
As for what was so different between the two, Jung Ho Yeon expressed how she was more focused on her own life while Kang Sae Byeok centered her’s around her family back in North Korea.
And what was different in my opinion was, I think I was kind of a person that lived a life relatively centered on my personal interest, wherease Sae Byeok puts other people before herself to the point where she’s willing to sacrifice her life for her family. So it was a little difficult to relate to her in this aspect at first.
— Jung Ho Yeon
Because of the differences she had with her character, Jung Ho Yeon explained that through them, she was able to learn more about life. It definitely was an eye-opener for her.
After playing the role of Sae Byeok, I think I came to view the meaning of friends and family a little differently.
— Jung Ho Yeon
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“I was like, ‘What is this? It’s crazily amazing.'”
If you watched Squid Game, you know how hard it was to watch just one episode at a time! According to Anupam Tripathi, the K-Drama’s script was just as hard to put down as the K-Drama was to turn off.
Anupam Tripathi recently did an interview with VICE, and he revealed how he prepared to play Ali, what it was like on set, and more.
In Squid Game, Ali Abdul is a migrant worker from Pakistan. Although he’s played “mostly migrant worker roles in movies and dramas,” Anupam Tripathi felt that Ali was different because he was a more developed and fleshed-out character than his previous roles. He said, “It was my first full-fledged character… The way he looked, the way he behaved, his background—so many questions were in my mind on how I was going to portray him.”
As preparation for his role as Ali, Anupam met with migrant workers, watched documentaries, and read articles about migrant workers in order to fully understand his character. “It’s all about portraying Ali to the best of my ability,” he said.
Although he “started dancing with joy” and immediately shared the good news with his friends and family once he found out he was cast as Ali, Anupam felt immense pressure to bring Ali to life realistically after learning that the K-Drama would be aired in 190 countries.
Even though he was intimidated by the idea of acting in a K-Drama with such a global scale, Anupam couldn’t resist devouring the script all at once. During his VICE interview, he revealed he’d read the script in one sitting!
“I was like, ‘What is this? It’s crazily amazing.’ The biggest hook for me was how characters would live or die through a series of childhood games, and as you go deeper into the script, you’ll notice that each character has their own personal conflict.
—Anupam Tripathi
The same things that hooked Anupam on the Squid Game script have hooked millions on the completed K-Drama, so we totally agree with him!
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