Although the Korean Baeksang Art Awards have not had an audience, they have attracted much attention. Although the selection of the film department, Qinglong and Dazhong seem to be more sought after, the gold content of Baixiang should not be underestimated, and it undoubtedly belongs to the category of top selection in the Korean film industry, and the candidate who can win the film Emperor Film Queen is definitely the trump card of Chungmuro.
This year's film queen belongs to the very young Miss Quan Zhongrui. Many unknown audiences are secretly wondering, who is Quan Zhongrui? What does she do?
Indeed, Quan Zhongrui's name is not very familiar to many ordinary audiences, and it is no wonder that she is not yet 27 years old this year, and has only starred in two films since her debut, and the third work is still in the shooting stage. According to this qualification, shouldn't other actresses compete for the award for best newcomer? (Funny, Quan Zhongrui is already a new film queen, but now there are still people who stubbornly mistakenly think that this time she got the Best Newcomer Award, why not?!) ）
Our Miss Zhongrui is so talented, just so different, just so "different fireworks", as if she is a person born for the film queen. Just like the first work that can be the big screen of the big director without any acting experience, and also directly enter Cannes, Quan Zhongrui can always bring people an "incredible" impact.
In fact, in Chungmuro, Quan Zhongrui has long been regarded as "the strongest and brightest monster newcomer who appeared like a comet", and his super acting skills are not like a white paper newcomer at all. Therefore, her award this time is not at all surprising in the industry, but it is expected.
Although JeonJong-sui was born in South Korea in 1994, he immigrated to Canada with his family in elementary school and did not return to South Korea until high school. It is this kind of growth experience that blends eastern and western cultures, making Jeon Jong-sui look very unique among a group of Korean actresses.
She doesn't have amazing beauty (though she's pretty), but she's so attractive that even if you stand there without talking, you can't ignore her presence. Her appearance belongs to the more angular, personality kind, is the appearance of iceberg beauty, deep features, especially those always thoughtful eyes and thick slightly upturned lips, with its own mysterious feeling. That kind of independence, self, nature, innocence, openness, firmness, maverick appearance, is not artificially imitated, but it is emanated from her bones.
It is said that this is also the fundamental reason why Quan Zhongrui was able to stand out from nearly a thousand professional auditions at once although he was a little white actor and was taken by the big director Li Cangdong at a glance, and partnered with the film emperor Liu Yaren and Steven Yuan to act in the opponent's play. Director Lee Cang-dong later talked about the reason for choosing Jeon Jong-sui to play the role of Hye-mi in "Burning" in an interview - "I have the conviction that no one can do anything but this person." ”
Li Cangdong really had a unique vision, and he excavated the real Quan ZhongRui to the greatest extent. Sure enough, quan Zhongrui, who has a strong explosive force, became popular because of his amazing post-film level acting skills, and as soon as he debuted, he attracted the attention of the international film industry. In the play, she is sexy, bold, free, and has a deadly mysterious seduction. She portrays Hye-mi, a confused woman with a beautiful and lively appearance, but is actually depressed and lonely, with strong acting skills, and does not fall behind in the process of playing against Liu Yaren and Steven Yuan, like a master duel.
To this end, Quan Zhongrui also specially thanked director Li Cangdong for walking into the door of the film with nothing in his acceptance speech after winning The Hundred Thoughts Film.
However, this time, after Quan Zhongrui won the Hundred Thoughts Film, it was because of her second work "CALL". Lee Chung-hyun, the director of "CALL", said about the reason for choosing Jeon Jong-sui that when he saw the movie "Burning" when preparing the script, he felt that Jeon Jong-sui was very compatible with the role of Young-sook in the play, "My intuition tells me that if she can play this role, it will make my film more abundant." "Here I have to say that the young director is really very discerning and talented! (To put it more, "CALL" is also the feature-length debut of director Li Congxian, who is only 30 years old.) Continue to gossip, Li Congxian himself is very handsome, and the audience has teased that he can debut as an actor! ）
"CALL" is a thriller and suspense movie that received explosive praise as soon as Netflix was launched. The film tells the story of Shu-yeon (Park Shin-hye), who has not returned to her hometown for a long time, and finds an old phone in the old house of her old home because she left her mobile phone on the train. Paradoxically, the old phone suddenly rang, and the voice of a strange woman came from the other end of the phone, and that woman was Yingshu, played by Quan Zhongrui. After Shu-yeon learns that Young-sook is the same person who lived in this house 20 years ago, the two begin to communicate deeply, as if they have become friends who talk about everything. One day, Shuyan tells Young-sook about her dead father, so Young-sook, who survived in that time and space, saves Shu-yeon's father, who died 20 years ago, changing Shu-yeon's current situation. In return, Shu-yeon tells Young-sook about her future in 20 years and hopes to help her. However, gradually, Shuyan discovers that things and Young-sook are not what she imagined, and Young-sook on the other end of the phone 20 years ago gradually brings threats and dangers to Shu-yeon's side, and horror, pain, and regret gradually stage...
Yingshu, played by Quan Zhongrui, is one of the two heroines in the play, and is a character with a big reversal. Originally, at the beginning of the movie, everyone thought that she was a poor girl who was abused by the witch's stepmother, but she did not know that she was the cold-blooded perverted murderer who lived with demons in her body. Only her death could end her killing. Her indifferent eyes scanning the world with a lollipop and the evil smile that hides the corners of her mouth, her indifference to biting the chicken's feet and the cynicism of shaking her legs, her initial hypocrisy and later fierce evil, all of which are gradually expressed layer by layer through Quan Zhongrui's natural acting skills like clouds and water, and the ability to transform and retract freely between calm and fragile and hysterical is really chilling to watch and extremely frightening. Many international audiences have said that Jeon Jong-sui has subverted their perception of Korean actresses. (To say more, originally the acting skills of another heroine Park Shin-hye this time were a breakthrough for herself, and the initial publicity of the film also focused on the more famous Park Shin-hye, but quan Zhong-sui's strength was too strong, the light was too dazzling, and the highlight of the film effect was all on Jeong-seok.) Therefore, although it is a double heroine, the candidate for the film after the hundred thoughts film only reported Quan Zhongrui alone, presumably Park Shin-hye should not be a taste in her heart, which is a bit painful. But this is really no way, even if it is reported, the probability of winning the award will be Quan Zhongrui alone, so Park Shin-hye is afraid that it will be more uncomfortable. ）
Jeon Jong-sui is a very talented and thoughtful actor. "I'm very resistant to trying to keep me in some kind of institutional circle, but it always seems like it happens, schools, companies, clubs, that kind of situation, the mind is imprisoned."" she said. I'd love to find people who are inclusive and able to endorse different opinions, who can save who I am and appreciate who I am. ”
In the first grade of elementary school, Jeon Jong-sui watched Harry Potter, and she said that the experience of watching the film made her feel the joy of watching movies. Later, she was already in high school in Canada, but as she grew older, she suddenly understood what she wanted most, that is, she wanted to be an actor. So she returned to South Korea to attend an art high school and then enrolled in Sejong University's film art major.
However, she herself said in interviews and on variety shows that she did not actually experience college life much. People who listened to her thought that she did not go to college in the end, but it was actually because Quan Zhongrui, who had a personality and ideas, found that university study was difficult to meet her needs, so she made other choices. "I didn't take classes very much, my attendance was very low, and I felt like the school was bringing together people with actor dreams, but I didn't have a clear idea of what I was going to teach." Listen, listen, among the Korean actresses, I am afraid that Quan ZhongRui can say it so frankly and bluntly.
So Quan Zhongrui, who wanted to do it, often fled the university classroom but went to study in the acting training class and began to look for a brokerage company. However, nearly two years passed at once. It turned out that the main appeal of Quan Zhongrui's choice of brokerage company was that the brokerage company should be in line with her values. Look, look, this is like a new actor is not even a newcomer actor in the art school reading Xiao bai's request!
But Quan Zhongrui does not think so, she believes that this is very important for her development, and she will not lower her requirements because her acting experience is O. She's just such a genuine cool girl. That's why I like her so much, always confident and bold to be myself.
Finding the company did not delay her acting studies, and in the process of repeated polishing, she became more clear about her performance direction and what she wanted to perform. She said, "The environment makes it easy for newcomer actors to be consumed, and after a while, what we shoot during this period is like a plastic bottle with a different lid, and if you open it, it is actually almost the same, or there is nothing." I don't like that, I want to break. ”
In order to break through this conservative concept and rigid education, Quan Zhongrui has never stopped looking. This look, just like the Huixiu she played, was confused but did not stop. Obviously, she is much luckier than Hye-soo. After Quan Zhongrui searched for almost all the relevant brokerage companies in Korea, he finally met the current company. On the third day after signing, she auditioned for Burning. She auditioned for a piece of pantomime, which happened to be the course she was studying in the acting class. It turns out that Quan Zhongrui really went the right way.
In life, Quan Zhongrui is a bit cute, a bit different dimensional, and sometimes he wanders into his own world while talking. She enjoys a free, unfettered state, authentic and spontaneous, with the qualities of a true artist. And her frankness also makes people often feel that she is actually a little out of place with this impetuous circle.
In the face of the problem thrown by Jiang Hudong in "The Brother I Know", unlike other guests who will catch the specially thrown terrier talk to increase the weight of the camera, but with a pair of innocent eyes, only use a "hmm" word and a smile to nod to show recognition, so that our variety show god also lost, but she did not feel that there was any problem at all, because she was agreeing, so she nodded. In the second half of the show, she directly slapped Uncle Xiugen's palm because she mistakenly thought that Lee Xiugen's game was wrong, which revealed her true feelings, but this frightened the seniors of the Korean showbiz circle who were strictly hierarchical before and after.
Unlike the bold and wild performance in the film and the talk about the understanding of acting skills, in real life, she is actually a shy personality, so she has extreme nervousness in the face of "face-shaking and shooting" at the airport, and the mood is suddenly down to the extreme, so it is natural to cover her face with clothes and cry, completely regardless of the fact that the media has written her as "just red to play a big card" and "no courtesy"... In fact, this is the real reaction of a fledgling girl.
In "Burning" she has a lot of smoking, nudity, and sex scenes, but in the interview she frankly said that she didn't feel a big burden of shooting such a scene, because she knew very well that this was something that anyone would do, and she thought it was reasonable to perform it from the perspective of the development of the whole plot. Such a slightly awkward question was answered sincerely and purely by her.
For Yingshu in "CALL", unlike the killer demon understood by the audience, Quan Zhongrui also frankly said his thoughts, "The audience can think whatever they want, but I can't think like this." In my opinion, she is a simple girl, when to erupt, and how far it will go, these are not things I should think about. In a way, I'm trying to play that feeling of a wounded, abused animal, and I want to be an actor who speaks for the character. ”
Currently, Jeon Jong-sui confirms to star in the Hollywood fantasy film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, directed by Anna Lily Amipur, which is said to tell the story of a young girl with extraordinary and dangerous powers after escaping from a mental hospital.
Such a charming and so young and flying Quan Zhongrui, her pattern is obviously not limited to the Korean entertainment circle. Where is her peak, how can it not be extremely exciting?