First, the actress shared her feelings about the release. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs been over a year since filming ended. Now that itŌĆÖs released, my heart is fluttering again as if IŌĆÖm filming right now. I am having a happy and tense time as I remember the hard times I went through one by one. After seeing My Name, people around me are telling me that I fight well and that I have a good punch.ŌĆØ My Name ranked 4th on NetflixŌĆÖs worldwide rankings. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm amazed by it too. I think Squid Game seems to have triggered the attention towards Korean dramas in many countries. ItŌĆÖs such a strange situation that I canŌĆÖt give a definite answer. Maybe the era of OTT has really come.ŌĆØ Han also talked about why she chose My Name. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖve always wanted to do a work that a female character leads independently. And I happened to come across a script that combines that with action, so I chose it. Also, I like noir, which was another reason.ŌĆØ The first thing she prepared was ŌĆ£action.ŌĆØ ŌĆ£The director told me to prepare for action scenes even before I read the script. I think he said that because he thought I would lack the ability to interpret the script if I didnŌĆÖt prepare the action first. I had prepared action first, so by the time I studied the script, my body had already become Ji Woo, so it wasnŌĆÖt that burdensome.ŌĆØ The most difficult action scene was the scene where she went to see Moo Jun in the latter half of the drama. ŌĆ£Starting from the hotel lobby, the sequence moves onto the stairs, the elevator, and then to the fight with Moo Jin. In the beginning, I performed the action scenes and excluded the emotions. But that scene was about killing someone, so it was emotionally and physically challenging.ŌĆØ
Han shared that she invested a lot of time in the action scenes. ŌĆ£No matter how much I try, I knew that I would never be able to handle that action sequence by myself. Actually, I performed all the action scenes, including the one-take scene, all by myself.ŌĆØ My stunt double will do the rehearsals. And even the scenes taken by the stunt doubles, actors took part in the filming till the end and chose a better one during the editing.ŌĆØ She threw herself in the project, even if that meant no makeup. ŌĆ£It was my idea not to wear any makeup. I only put on a bare minimum. There are also quite a lot of scenes where I wear absolutely zero makeup. I just felt like I had to do that for the character named Ji Woo. I wanted her to be seen as raw as possible.ŌĆØ Finally, while shaking her head, she opened up about My NameŌĆśs season two. ŌĆ£Now that Ji Woo found out about the true identity of her father, I think there will be a story about her accomplishing something. I have no idea what to show in season two. Maybe I should show superpower (laughs).ŌĆØ
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