South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae He was on the red carpet of a special screening of The Squid Game in Los Angeles when a reporter asked him an uncomfortable question, to which the famous actor answered humbly. The Netflix star and several Korean productions – such as Along with the gods – prevented the journalist from going through an embarrassing moment when she hinted that she had become famous thanks to her latest series. Actually, he is already a renowned artist from cinema and television series in South Korea.
It is true that the career of the actors of The Squid Game has achieved world fame and their faces are now known in many countries beyond the Asian continent. However, something that not many take into account – especially if they do not know much about current Asian culture – is that an interpreter like Lee Jung-jae for Korea is the same as Leonardo Dicaprio for Hollywood: someone you would hardly recognize.
Thus, when Jung-jae was at a Netflix special event about the series in the United States, a reporter who was unaware of the actor’s fame in his native country approached him and asked him the following question: “For you, I am sure that you can no longer leave the house without people recognizing you. What has been the biggest change in your life since the series came out? “
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As the K-Drama Nerd portal collects in a video, this moment caused the annoyance of several Internet users who know the history of the South Korean star, who criticized the fact that the interviewer was uninformed, because for him the life of a movie star it is not new at all.
The moment was viralized not only by the question, but by the brilliant and humble response of the artist, who, instead of correcting the reporter, decided to answer in a very simple way about his experience in the United States.
“Yes you’re right. In fact, the biggest change has to be how I am so recognized by everyone everywhere, even in the United States ”, the actor replied kindly, whose response was translated into English by an assistant from the Squid game team.
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He also noted that many times he meets fans of The Squid Game in restaurants or on the street and that, although they stare at him at first and scare him a bit, they finally manage to strike up a conversation about something related to the Netflix series. “Those are the moments when I really feel like we really did something great,” added.
That is how Lee Jung-jae did not need to tell the interviewer that practically nothing has changed for him, since being recognized on the street is something that he has lived through for many years in Korea. That was why his fans applauded his way of answering, because they knew that he could correct the reporter.
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