‘The Glory’ Lim Ji-yeon… “If everyone in the world hates Yeonjin”[플랫]

“I wish everyone in the world would hate Yeon-jin until the end.”

Actress Lim Ji-yeon in a Netflix drama It was ‘Park Yeon-jin, the perpetrator of school violence’ himself. Park Yeon-jin’s peace, saved no matter what she did, begins to crack when Moon Dong-eun (played by Song Hye-kyo), who she bullied during her school days, shows up as a teacher her daughter’s homeroom.

Park Yeon-jin points out Moon Dong-eun’s weaknesses and sells them one by one, befitting a bad guy among the bad guys. After receiving the script, the actors who portrayed the villains in “Yeonjin-ah, didn’t you do too much?” they said in unison. Park Yeon-jin could not escape Moon Dong-eun’s revenge. The moment she found out that the body of Son Myung-oh (actor Kim Gun-woo) had disappeared from the morgue, Yeon-jin shook her fingers subtly and said, “I’m ashamed, I have nothing to say ,” and took a cigarette.

Lim Ji-yeon, who played a villain who was arrogant even when embarrassed, was the first to play a villain. Lim Ji-yeon, who portrayed the villain perfectly, was terrified that someone like that would be around her. has attracted public attention. Even her mother now sings “Yeon Jin-ah~” at home. I met actress Lim Ji-yeon at a cafe in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 17th.

When asked if she felt her popularity, Lim Ji-yeon said, “To be honest, I was sure that this work would create a lot of buzz and receive a lot of love.” A lot of people call me ‘Jin-ah Yeon’ wherever I go, so I’m grateful and happy.”

Lim Ji-yeon described the moment she came across the script for the first time as feeling like seeing a ‘crafty novel’. At the same time, he said that he would have participated in this work even if he had been given a minor role other than ‘Park Yeon-jin’. “I would have done it even if it was Hyejeong, Sarah, or Haengnam if the role was given to me. I said many times that I wanted to try a villain role, but I never got the chance. When I met a villain I liked, I thought he was unconditionally mine.”

Lim Ji-yeon, who graduated from the Korean National University of Arts in acting, starred in the 2011 film debuted with the film He appeared on the back and made his face known. MBC weekend drama 2016 He got his first lead role in Even in the early days, there was controversy over acting skills. As she took on the role of a North Korean refugee woman in “The Wind”, her acting skills gradually began to be recognized. Compared to Mi Poong, who was a very innocent character, Park Yeon-jin was a 180 degree transformation.

During the script reading, writer Kim Eun-sook said, “I felt that there must be something demonic about an angelic face.” Lim Ji-yeon said, “The writer said that he would not allow any beauty or speech for Yeon-jin, but I agreed unconditionally and created Yeon-jin, hoping that the world would hate me until the end.”

Initially, Lim Ji-yeon approached ‘Park Yeon-jin’ in different ways to portray the villain. I thought of as many ideas as possible, like ’emotionless sociopath’ and ‘totally emotional’, but in the end I decided not to refer to the current villain acting. I decided to do ‘Park Yeon-jin that Lim Ji-yeon can only do’. He said, “I made up my mind to do everything with my voice, expression, gait, and style without referring to any villain. I spent most of the first half of the first half trying to figure out Yeonjin’s character,” he said. .

At the scene, director Ahn Gil-ho continued to emphasize, “I wanted Yeon-jin to be uniquely evil among the five villains.” Lim Ji-yeon created Park Yeon-jin, who is not an evil villain for a reason, but just evil, so she doesn’t even feel guilty. He delivered the famous line perfectly, “Why do you think there’s only good and evil punished and causation and retribution for things that don’t exist?” Lim Ji-yeon also said, “When Dong-eun appears as my daughter’s homeroom teacher, I shouldn’t show concern and embarrassment, but I had to show shaky emotions, so I tried to bring him to life in detail.” Even in the scenes where there were a lot of cigarettes, she said she tried to express her emotions and posture differently when she took out a cigarette, such as ‘in front of her husband’, ‘when angry’, and ‘moment absurd’.

The scene that Lim Ji-yeon prepared for a long time was the final prison scene. Even my mother turned her back. In prison, I had to fix the prisoner’s uniform and convey today’s weather by raising my hand to my stomach. Her face was smiling, but she was also crying. In order to express complex and subtle emotions, Lim Ji-yeon prepared for several months from the moment the script came out. “It felt different from when Yeon-jin did the bad thing. I cried a lot as I fell apart. I tried to express the end of living with complex emotions, having to turn my back on my mother and feel sorry for her. But I think the last one is the best punishment for Yeonjin. It’s a better punishment than facing death like Jaejoon.”

Lim Ji-yeon admitted that it was difficult because she was emotional after filming all day as Yeon-jin. He said, “Yeonjin lives with a temper,” and “there were days when I was full of emotions, but at that time, it felt like the whole world got angry.”

He described himself as an ‘aspiring actor’. “To be honest, since I was at school, I thought I wasn’t born an actor. There are many gifted and talented friends around me, but I don’t have much, so I thought I had to work hard. Let’s work hard and grow little by little. I was scolded and cried a lot on the set, but I never thought of stopping (acting).”

his next work in. Lim Ji-yeon said, “People who see it might not think it’s Yeon-jin, but they might think it’s someone else.” He seems to like works and roles with different colors.”

“I have been praised now, but there may be another debate over my acting skills. However, my aim is to overcome that and live with a sense of achievement, to become an actor full of passion with a different view in good deeds by working hard with tenacity and perseverance even if it is slow in the future.”

At the end of the interview, Lim Ji-yeon left the last words to let Yeon-jin go.

“Yeonjin-ah, there is no forgiveness. I hope you pay for your sins for the rest of your life and regret and reflect on what you have done.”

▼ Reporter Lim Ji-haul vision@khan.kr