So we kind of went through those back-and-forth processes. After we made those changes on-set, we would have the actors go into practising it and training for it right away. Even after we changed it, I would have the martial arts director kind of act it out on-set, and then he would make changes – saying that something else would be better or whatnot. And so we watched a lot of other films during the pre-production period, and the martial arts director and I had a lot of meetings, and I believe I changed the storyboard for that last action sequence about eight times. So I thought to myself, if it had to be similar, at least let’s twist it to the best of our abilities. But, then again, there are limitations to what we can create. I’ve done a little bit in the film noir genre, but that wasn’t an aggressive action film, so I referenced a lot of action films – so that I could avoid them, rather than copying any kind of action sequences. Sung-hyun, was it difficult to put together action scenes that would be fresh and new for your audience?īyun Sung-hyun: The way you phrased your question, did you think that our action sequences were something fresh and new?īSH: This is my first action film. And again, I wanted to overcome people saying, “Hey – I don’t think she’s gonna do a great job as an action film lead”. ![]() And the reason I wanted to do that without giving up is because I wanted to make sure there were no regrets after I was done. Every time I was a little bit insecure, or I thought it was too challenging or too physically demanding, including things like the injury, I constantly told myself, “I will not give up”. I think I wanted to overcome the general public’s perception of, “Hey wait, Do-yeon’s in an action film?” and I really wanted to do my best, so I really put in a lot of me. Jeon Do-yeon: This is my first action film, so I really wanted to do it well – and having to carry an action film as a female lead, there was definitely a huge amount of pressure put on me. How physically demanding was Kill Boksoon to shoot? ![]() The Upcoming met with Jeon Do-yeon and writer-director Byun Sung-hyun shortly before the film premiered in Berlin.ĭo-yeon, you were injured while filming an action scene and had to go to hospital. Renowned Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon branches out into gloriously chaotic action, as the titular Boksoon considers whether killing for money is still all it’s cracked up to be, wondering if she should trade the physical violence of killing for money for the emotional violence of mothering a teenager. After an energetic big-screen debut at this year’s Berlinale, the South Korean actionfest Kill Boksoon will jump straight to the small screen with the film being released as a Netflix original.
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