| Lee Na-young Takes on Transgender Part (Source) |
2010/01/17 |
Actress Lee Na-young is one of the most coveted models for advertisers along with fellow 30-something stars like Kim Hee-seon and Ko So-young. She has appeared in almost all major commercials for cosmetics, electronics, beverage, food, telecommunication, and construction companies, and she still has many advertisers wooing her. For her management agency, she is the beautiful goose that lays the golden eggs.
Over the 10-plus years of her acting career, Lee has shown different sides of herself in each eight film she starred in, including "Who Are You - Movie" (2002), "Please Teach Me English" (2003), "Someone Special" (2004), "Maundy Thursday" ("Our Happy Time", 2006), and "Dream" (2008). In her latest film, romantic comedy "Lady Daddy", Lee appears as a man. She is not a transvestite but a single, unmarried transgender woman who discovers she has a son from the time she was a man and must now live with him.
Lee had a lot of fun filming it, and seems quite impervious to her looks.... |More
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| [INTERVIEW] Actress Lee Na-young (Part 1) (Source) |
2010/01/14 |
Actress Lee Na-young [Lee Jin-hyuk/10Asia]
Most actresses which men rave about, are less liked by women. But a handsome number of female fans became enchanted with Lee Na-young's roles in TV series such as "Ruler of Your Own World" and "Ireland". And words such as 'consistency', 'sturdiness' and 'prudence' -- normally used to describe someone of the male gender -- also befit this 31-year-old actress well.
She was the same on the set of film "Lady Daddy". The Lee Na-young that 10Asia met with sighed as she jokingly complained how the female members of the crew would ask for photographs with her when she dressed up as a man in particular, much more ... |More
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| Lee Na-young: 'Acting is so difficult for me' (Source) |
2010/01/14 |
Actress Lee Na-young is unique. She has a strong individuality as an actress in movies--showing hesitating attitudes, speaking in a low mumble, and expressing emotions through her eyes.
For Lee, portraying unrequited love is her specialty. Lee shows her personality well through the movies "Please Teach Me English" and "Some Special". She played Young-ju, who secretly loves Mun-su (Jang Hyeok), in "Please Teach Me English" (2002, Director: Kim Seong-su), and Han E-yeon, who loves Dong Chi-sung for 10 years, in the movie "Someone Special".
Now, Lee Na-young once again plays a character who hesitates to express her love. The character that she plays cannot easily express her feelings due to bein... |More
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| JANG Jin turns JANG Dong-gun into president (Source) |
2009/10/16 |
Director JANG Jin is a peculiar filmmaker who has a gift for approaching subjects from an alternative angle with a typical JANG Jin style of humour. This time JANG delivers his latest film about three fictitious Korean presidents titled Good Morning President.
The biggest name attached to the project is pan-Asian star JANG Dong-gun who will soon enter the international market outside Asia with the film "The Warrior's Way". "The Warrior's Way" also stars Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush.
JANG Dong-gun will play a young president who is also a single father. LEE Soon-jae's character is JANG's character's predecessor in charge of Korea. KO Doo-sim tackles the role of the first female Korean president. All three struggle to combine the demanding position and private life.
Writer/director JANG Jin's filmography includes films like "Guns and Talks" and "Someone Special", and he wrote the scenario for "Welcome to Dongmakgol". "Good Morning President" is the opening film of the 14th ... |More
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| 'President' Offers Politically Correct Drama, Flawed Politics (Source) |
2009/10/09 |
By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
BUSAN ― Choosing Jang Jin's "Good Morning President" ost morale for South Korean film industry, festival director Kim Dong-ho said. The film is a feel good, albeit blemished, drama that lightheartedly throws in ethical questions and personal dilemmas into state affairs.
But choosing "President" seemed to be a more nominal choice for opening Asia's largest cinema event. The film skims the surface of Northeast Asia geopolitics, including some red-hot North Korea issues, but laughter and emotional reactions that it aims to draw from viewers are easy to miss for non-Koreans (though Jang Dong-gun's hallyu power will certainly draw attention from fans scattered around the globe, from Japan to Mexico).
The film takes viewers to the private quarters of the Blue House set amid the terms of three fictional presidents. Kim Jong-ho (Lee Soon-jae) is an elderly head-of-state who wins, just before retiring, the lottery he bought as part of a photo-op. ... |More
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