SEOUL – Actor Gong Yoo has celebrated his twentieth anniversary in present enterprise by opening his first social media account.
On Wednesday (Dec 1), his administration company mentioned in a press release: “We opened an official Instagram account to convey the day by day lifetime of the actor Gong Yoo to all his followers.”
The primary put up was an uncaptioned picture of a plate of delicious-looking squid. This was probably alluding to Gong’s cameo within the hit Netflix collection Squid Sport, a few group of desperadoes taking part in lethal variations of childhood video games.
His temporary appearances because the face-slapping salesman catapulted the already standard actor to worldwide fame and spawned many hilarious memes.
In his second put up, the 42-year-old confirmed off his again view in a basketball jersey with “Gong” on it.
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His company mentioned it was managing the account @_gongyoo_official_ on the actor’s behalf and confused that he has no different social media accounts.
The star of hit fantasy Okay-drama Goblin (2016 to 2017) and zombie thriller Prepare To Busan (2016) had beforehand defined why he was not on Instagram.
“I do not like taking selfies. Once I go someplace, I would slightly be trying on the sights with my eyes slightly than take footage,” he had mentioned at a press convention in April 2017.
“A part of the rationale why I do not use social media is that as a result of it is to point out folks, some components of it is not going to be real. It makes me uncomfortable to point out issues in a packaged method like that.”
In the meantime, the worldwide phenomenon of Squid Sport confirmed no signal of abating because it gained its first main American award on the 2021 Gotham Awards for impartial movies.
On Monday (Nov 29), it took residence the trophy for Breakthrough Sequence – Lengthy Format in New York.
Its creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk mentioned in his acceptance speech: “Once I wrote this script, it was 2009, 12 years in the past. I did my greatest, however no one preferred it. Individuals mentioned it is unrealistic, it is too violent, it is absurd, it is bizarre.
“It took 12 years to make this present and present it to the folks. And it took lower than 12 days to turn out to be the No. 1 present on the planet.”