‘Acting is Harder Than Directing’
HIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
IT HAS BEEN A BIG YEAR FOR SQUID GAME STAR Lee Jung-jae. He’s won Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice awards, been nominated for a Golden Globe, an Emmy (Squid Game got 14 Emmy nods) and received a 7-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in May, for the premiere of Hunt, a spy thriller he both directed and stars in.
In one of his first in-depth interviews with a major U.S. publication, Lee spoke to from Seoul, where he’s been working on post-production for, which opens in South Korea August 10 (a U.S. release date is in the works). He reflected on directing his first film, his Hollywood aspirations and the “greater responsibility” he feels since the enormous success of.
