For Sol Kyung Gu, one name was all it took.
In a recent interview with TenAsia at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, Sol Kyung Gu talked about his film Possible Love. Asked why he joined the project, he said, "I just wanted to do it because it was director Lee Chang Dong. That's all I thought about."
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He nearly couldn't join because he was filming another movie at the time, but the shooting schedule was adjusted so he could do both. "If I couldn't do it because of my schedule, there would be a casting article with another actor's name, right?" he said with a laugh. "Just thinking about that was horrible."
Reading the script, he said, "felt like reading a novel." Sol Kyung Gu previously worked with Lee Chang Dong on Peppermint Candy and Oasis. "When I read Peppermint Candy, it also felt like a novel that leaves a long lingering feeling, and this time felt the same," he explained.
Possible Love follows two couples, laid-off worker Ho Seok (Sol Kyung Gu) and his wife Mi Ok (Jeon Do Yeon), and documentary director Ye Ji (Jo Yeo Jeong) and her husband Sang Woo (Jo In Sung), who meet to make a documentary and come face to face with their hidden desires. The film won the Silver Lion (Grand Jury Prize) at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival and the Ebert Director Award at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, and it is Korea's submission for Best International Feature at the 99th Academy Awards.
Released on Netflix on November 6, Possible Love topped Netflix's Korean movie Top 10 right after its release and also ranked No. 7 in Taiwan and No. 9 in Vietnam.
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