Acting was the only time she could forget everything. Whenever she performed, it felt like a shaman entering another world, becoming someone else entirely. She didn’t dream of fame or glamour. She simply wanted to live as anyone but herself. Anyone but O Jeong Hui, the girl who grew up on the outskirts of Seoul in a neighborhood, where drunken men beat their wives and children were thrown around in violence. Even being a tree would have been enough, as long as she wasn’t that girl anymore.
That desperate longing to become someone else eventually carried her all the way to the top. She became the number one actress in South Korea, building a brilliant career while completely cutting herself off from her past.
But the past she buried so carefully has begun to rise back to the surface. For twenty years, it felt like a dirty piece of clothing hidden deep in a closet, left unwashed and forgotten. And now, at last, it’s being pulled out into the light.
(Source: jTBC)
