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Song Kang-ho, the superstar actor who doesn't care about notoriety

2022-12-06T14:28:03.736Z


PORTRAIT – In a few years, he has become one of the emblematic artists of the new wave of South Korean cinema.


With his white T-shirt, his frank smile, his black lock and his three-day beard, he puts you at ease from the start of the interview.

Everything seems fluid and clear with Song Kang-ho, a bit like chatting with a friend.

This is not the slightest paradox of this immense South Korean star, revealed in 2019 in the multi-award-winning film

Parasite

(palme d'or and Oscar for best foreign film).

While he often embodies jumpy, even overexcited characters in real life, the 55-year-old actor, always looking young, expresses himself calmly, while smoking cigarette after cigarette.

irony of fate

Last May, during the Cannes Film Festival, the actor in Kore-eda's new film,

Les Bonnes Étoiles

, even had the luxury of winning the best actor award.

On the stage, we will remember his smile of circumstance and his very short speech, so far from the whimsical exuberance of a Roberto Benigni.

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When we ask Song Kang-ho if he remembers precisely…

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Source: lefigaro

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