Overnight hit 16 million fans! The heroine of "Squid Game" is actually a supermodel, and the red-haired supermodel has luck and strives to enjoy the moment

Since the launch of "Squid Game" on September 17, it has reached the top in 90 countries and regions around the world, becoming the hottest TV series by Netflix so far.

Although there are many negative reports of plot plagiarism, stitch marketing, subtitle confusion, etc. in the follow-up, the fire is indeed still fire. The actors have also gained countless fans because of this wave of strong heat. Yesterday, the four actors in the play were also invited to connect to the Fei Lun show.

In addition to being on the show, the actors' popularity on social media is also frighteningly high. The two main male protagonists, Lee Jung-jae and Park Hae-so, only opened Instagram after the TV series was broadcast, and the number of fans exceeded one million in a few days. Wei Hejun, who plays the policeman's brother, has 6.9 million fans.

Even Xu Chengtai, the actor who plays the evil character Zhang Dexiu, has risen from more than 100,000 to 1.5 million fans. A few days ago, when the fans broke through the million, the big brother also played the terrier and wrote , "Thank you for making me a 'millionaire'." "Echoing the outlaws in the play who are desperate for money.

However, to say that the most eye-catching in this wave of heat is Zheng Haoyan (also translated as 'Zheng Haojuan') who plays the role of Jiang Xiao.

Before the TV series was broadcast, her fans were only about 400,000, and by the evening of the 8th, the number of fans had exceeded 16.91 million. This attention is really a bit amazing!

A few days ago, the newspaper sister introduced the male god Lee Jung-jae who starred in the play.

Today we will talk about Zheng Haoyan, who became popular overnight.

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In order not to spoil, the newspaper sister will not say the specific plot of "Squid Game". Let's talk about Zheng Haoyan's style and her performance in the play.

In the TV series, Zheng Haoyan plays Jiang Xiao, a sister with her younger brother who has to be a pickpocket to make a living. In order to have a good life for her family, she finally entered the arena of the squid game.

This character has short, messy hair, a plain face, and many traces of dirty face or freckles that I don't know. The thin figure and tired face look like they have experienced many social beatings.

Jiang Xiao's eyes at first were fierce, he didn't trust anyone, only for the sake of his family's life for money.

After experiencing many tribulations in the later period, she seems to have found a touch of humanity and warmth in the suffering. The emotional changes of the characters are quite delicate.

When watching the drama, who could have imagined that such an actor who fought and fought in the play, with a bloody and dirty look, was actually a supermodel who had won the supermodel award, walked through many luxury shows, and was quite famous in the Korean fashion circle?

Yes, Jeong Ho-yeon, who was born on the outskirts of Seoul in June 1994, began working as a model at the age of 16.

Starting from a small model without an agent, she first worked as a part-time model at Seoul Fashion Week, and then entered the "Fourth Season of Korean Supermodels" at the age of 19, officially debuting in South Korea as the runner-up.

The hard photos she took on the show at the time were very malleable. By the time he signed a brokerage company in 2016 and officially entered the overseas market, he had already photographed the inside pages and even covers of major weekly magazines in South Korea.

It was also when Zheng Haoyan was 22 years old that she went out on the runway Shanghai by Louis Vuitton. So far, we have walked through the runways of major first- and second-tier luxury brands such as Chanel, Fendi, Max Mara, Miu Miu and so on.

She has a very recognizable long red hair, and because the red hair stands out among many models, it is very attractive.

After the "Squid Game" became popular this time, when asked in an interview with Teen Vogue about the reason for dyeing red hair at that time, Zheng Haoyan said: "Before I went to work overseas for the first time, I wanted to change my style and temporarily decided to dye red hair. Didn't expect this decision to help me. ”

Until now, Jeong Ho-yeon's ins avatar is the red-haired Ariel in "The Little Mermaid".

The red-haired Korean supermodel received one big-name luxury job after another overseas that year, flying through the four major fashion weeks, and the work resume became more and more abundant.

Shortly after becoming famous, she also received an invitation from the celebrity makeup column of the "VOGUE" YouTube channel to shoot her own makeup content. The playful and cheerful personality and generous display are not a little bit worse than the "bitter and vengeful" Jiang Xiao character in today's "Squid Game".

An interesting point in the interlude: This video was taken in late 2016. After the TV series was broadcast this year, the editor of "VOGUE" YouTube immediately changed the original title and added the name of the TV series, and the number of hits immediately exceeded 11 million

The success of the 22-year-old began overseas, and Zheng Haoyan won a lot of resources in the Korean local fashion circle. The covers of major magazines, the C position when taking pictures, are all her.

However, since 2018, Zheng Haoyan has encountered a career bottleneck. The continuous dyeing of her hair for two years made her miserable, flying all over the world, and her unstable life also made her worry about her future career development. Watching movies and learning to act became the direction she began to work towards.

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In an interview after the explosion of "Squid Game", Zheng Haoyan recalled why she transformed from a model to an actress.

In the gap between endless cross-border flights, she said, she watched one movie after another. She loves art films and also watches action movies such as The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind and The Kill Bill series.

Whenever she returns to South Korea on vacation, Ms. Chung squeezes out time to take short-term acting courses, usually from a few weeks to a month. She slowly stopped dying red hair, slowed down her modeling schedule, and signed a new agency focused on film and television after her model contract expired in January 2020.

Soon after signing a contract with a film and television company, Zheng Haoyan received an invitation to write and audition for "Squid Game" when she attended the last fashion week before the outbreak in New York.

It was her first audition. First of all, the video connection, and then the face-to-face second test after returning to South Korea, the jerky acting skills + the relaxed feeling of the model facing the camera, the director immediately set her to star.

At this time, the acting learning time accumulated by Zheng Haoyan in the past few years added up to only three months. The best combination of luck and hard work is probably what it means.

Later in the story, everyone also knows that "Squid Game" exploded, a number of main creators became famous, and the drama worked hard for the family, the role of Jiang Xiao, who had blood and humanity, and Zheng Haoyan's cheerful and lively supermodel image outside the play, while exuding double charm.

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After intensive exposure and large-scale fans, Zheng Haoyan's daily life has also attracted people's attention. Everyone saw the other side of her calm and happy in addition to her supermodel + actor status.

She and Lee Dong-fai, one of the main actors in "Please Answer 1988", were in a low-key relationship for six years. The two do not show affection, but Korean media and passers-by have taken many photos of their lives.

(Holding a friend's baby)

After the explosion of "Squid Game" this time, Zheng Haoyan also rarely mentioned her boyfriend in the interview, saying that the other party was a predecessor + brother + friend + father-like figure, worried about her and proud of her, very intimate and kind.

(Lee Dong-fai cheers offstage when Jeong Ho-yeon walks the catwalk)

Her friendship with Blackpink member Jennie is also much talked about.

During the filming of "Squid Game" last year, Jennie not only personally went to the set to visit the class, but also sent a coffee car to a friend, and the two had a very friendly relationship.

Zheng Haoyan said in an interview that the two met through a common costumer friend at the Chanel show in Paris, and since then they have often come out together for tea and chat to cheer each other up.

For the popularity of more than three weeks, Zheng Haoyan has always said that she feels unreal, very grateful, and will try to enjoy the moment and not worry too much about what happens after that. She will continue to explore acting and will not give up being a model.

(A well-known luxury brand officially announced her as a global fashion, watch, jewelry ambassador)

Looking at Zheng Haoyan's star road, from being a model and participating in a supermodel competition alone, to deciding to dye red hair, learning to perform in a busy gap, and finally successfully auditioning to embark on the "game" express, all the way can really be said to step on the right step and win. The girl who can fly in the wind always catches luck.