'The Glory' Lim Ji-yeon "During my school days, Iljin? I was pure."

'The Glory' Lim Ji-yeon revealed that she was an ordinary student who dreamed of becoming an actress during her school days.

On the 17th, I met actress Lim Ji-yeon, who appeared in Netflix's 'The Glory', at a cafe in Sinsa-dong, Seoul. Lim Ji-yeon played the role of Park Yeon-jin, the instigator who inflicted harsh violence on Moon Dong-eun, living a life with everything at her feet from the moment she was born in a wealthy environment.

Some are reacting to Lim Ji-yeon's realistic acting by saying that she was not like Iljin during her school days. Lim Ji-yeon laughed, saying, "'You were really part of the Iljin group, weren't you? There were a lot of responses like this. I also received a lot of calls from my friends in middle and high school." He continued, "I was pure and ordinary. I don't have much memories of my school days. I dreamed of becoming an actor since I was young, and I had many acting friends around me. My school days were pure and normal."

Previously, Cha Joo-young (played by Choi Hye-jeong) revealed in an interview that she was verified for school violence during the casting process. Lim Ji-yeon said, "I barely talked to the production team about my school days and talked more about character aspects. I don't think there was anything directly verified or verified with me."

Regarding the acting of swearing, she said, "I didn't think the swearing would come out so well. In the play, several characters swear a lot and the script doesn't have many provocative words. I think the director had the influence of making Yeonjin's swearing vivid. “I thought it would be a lot more fun if I did it in a tasteful way. Swearing was also something that Yeonjin couldn’t avoid. There were a lot of things that made her feel refreshed,” he said.

Regarding smoking, "When I saw Yeonjin smoking a cigarette, I jokingly said that I should make it remind smokers of smoking. From now on, I practiced to make it look like I was enjoying it. I tried to smoke it in a lively manner. There are many different ways Yeonjin smokes. “There are times when I smoke because I’m angry, and there are times when I smoke gracefully alone while answering the phone. It’s also different when I smoke in front of my husband. I thought about it in detail.”

When asked if there were any aftereffects after portraying a vicious character, Lim Ji-yeon said, "If you film all day long, aren't you stuck with that temper all day? There are days when all your emotions are concentrated. On days when the weather cast scene is concentrated, you actually become gentler. Afterwards, you will be in prison. It was the same with the scenes, and when I came home from filming something like that, I felt irritated by the world. It was because I was feeling that way all day. I already had a lot of wrinkles between my eyebrows and things like that. 'Why am I so angry?', 'Why am I so bad-tempered? 'You lost, right?' “There was a time when I thought about it. I think it’s because I’m very sensitive and I yell a lot,” he confessed. “I joked to the staff on set, ‘I’m going to do something really nice next time,’” he said with a laugh.

'The Glory' is a Netflix series that depicts the story of a woman whose soul was broken by violence in her childhood, who risks her entire life to carefully prepare a cruel revenge, and the story of those who fall into the vortex. According to Netflix's official site 'Netflix TOP 10' on the 15th, the viewing time of 'The Glory' in the second week of March (6th to 12th) was 124.46 million hours, ranking first in the non-English language TV category.

Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr