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▲ Actor Yoon Yeo-jeong, who played the role of Sunja in the movie’Minari’, which was nominated for six categories including the Academy’s Best Honorary Award, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first time in 50 years after his film debut.
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“The manager is crying… Congratulations on your own because you are in self-quarantine.”
Yoon Yeo-jeong, the first Korean actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie’Minari’, expressed his emotions, saying, “I couldn’t even think of it in my dreams.”
Yoon Yeo-jeong said, “It was just a different world story for me,” the Associated Press reported on the 16th.
Yoon Yeo-jeong returned to Korea on the 15th after finishing the filming schedule for the drama’Pachinko’ of the video streaming company Apple TV Plus in Vancouver, Canada.
One hour after arriving at the airport, Yoon Yeo-jeong said, “The manager is much younger than me, and he suddenly told me,’Wow, I was nominated.’
He also said, “The manager cried, but I didn’t cry (because I was confused).”
▲ Actor Yoon Yeo-jung from the movie’Minari’. Pan Cinema provided
Yoon Yeo-jung said, “The manager was more emotional than me (at the news of the Oscar nomination), and I felt stupid too. So, I just hugged the manager and was in the living room.”
He said that he had just returned from Canada and should have a quarantine period for COVID-19 quarantine. “Everyone will want to come here (to congratulate), but since there is no way to come here, I will congratulate the two with my manager.”
“The problem is that the manager can’t drink at all,” he said. “So, I have to drink alone. The manager will watch me drink.”
The autobiographical film’Minari’, directed by Korean-American director Lee Isaac Jung (Isak Jeong), was announced on the 15th (local time) at the 93rd Academy Awards Nomination for Best Prestige Award, as well as Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress, Screenplay, Music Awards. He was nominated for six categories including.
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