SEOUL – South Korean actress Lee Yoo-mi says she is fortunate to have landed roles in two of the most important Okay-drama hits globally.
In Squid Recreation, which was launched in September 2021 and have become Netflix’s largest hit, she was a self-sacrificing participant in a sequence of lethal childhood video games. For All Of Us Are Lifeless, which just lately topped Netflix’s world charts, she took on the function of a egocentric teenager caught in a college throughout a zombie outbreak.
“I feel I am very lucky to point out myself in extraordinarily totally different genres in a brief time period,” she mentioned in an interview with Yonhap Information Company on Tuesday (Feb 15).
The 27-year-old actress was juggling the 2 roles – one a fan favorite and the opposite a detested character – in the summertime of 2020.
“I studied my characters within the automobile whereas shifting from one location to a different,” she mentioned, including it was onerous to separate the 2 characters.
Though she was not the lead actress in both of the exhibits, her reputation has skyrocketed around the globe. The variety of followers on her Instagram account went from 40,000 to 7.7 million in a matter of months.
After greater than a decade as an actress, beginning as an additional in 2009, she mentioned that the success of the 2 Netflix sequence will assist her land larger roles.
She added: “I’ve bought some affords for characters that stay longer and by no means die. They’re happier than any earlier characters of mine.”
Lee is without doubt one of the leads within the upcoming sports activities Okay-drama Psychological Coach Je Gal-gil.
