Director Lee Jung Beom, who directed the popular movie The Man From Nowhere, appeared at Kim Sae Ron’s funeral.
On February 17, he expressed his heartbreaking feelings through a short interview.
I owe a lot to Sae Ron. I thought of her like a daughter. I think this will be one of the few opportunities I will have to talk about Sae Ron.
— Lee Jung Beom
For the movie The Man From Nowhere, Kim Sae Ron, who worked with actor Won Bin, received much praise for her acting, despite her young age.
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Many called her a genius child actress, but for ‘The Man From Nowhere,’ she was more of a child with great emotion than a genius. She had a different type of emotion than other kids her age. Other young actors would imitate or exaggerate emotions. Most child actors are like that.
— Lee Jung Beom
He felt that Kim Sae Ron was different.
“But Sae Ron wasn’t like that. When I asked her, ‘I want you to feel this way in this situation’ or ‘How do you feel about this situation?’ even though she was only 11, it felt like talking to a 21-year-old actor.
Her emotions weren’t something that came from training. It’s because she had good basic emotions. Her understanding of people and most of the acting shown in the movie were created that way. Others might call it genius, which is fine, but personally, I think she was very sensitive when it came to acting on other people’s emotions.
Even though she was young, it felt like she knew about adults’ emotions. As a director, I received much help from those emotions and owe a lot to her emotional acting.”
— Lee Jung Beom
He also shared his hopes of how he thought she would want to be remembered.
I hope she doesn’t become remembered as a child actress who suffered and worried a lot and ended her life tragically. I don’t think she would want that. I think she would want to be remembered as an actress who enjoyed filming and laughed a lot on set.
— Lee Jung Beom
Meanwhile, Kim Sae Ron was found dead at her home on February 16.
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