Song Hye-gyo is looking at new acting projects, and may have settled on her next role: a film with respected director Lee Jung-hyang, who hasn’t directed a film since her well-regarded The Way Home eight years ago.
According to reports, Song is very close to settling on this project, although for now the casting is not finalized. She has agreed to take the role but is working out her schedule with producers. Apparently Song looked favorably at the project from its early stages and was an admirer of director Lee’s delicate touch, and had waited for the screenplay to be finished.
The project doesn’t have a title yet, but the plot deals with a PD at a broadcast station (Song’s character) who loses her fiancé in a hit and run accident. The film follows the conflict and growth she undergoes in the aftermath. Another key role is of a girl in her late teens, whose casting should attract a lot of interest.
If she signs on, this would be her first Korean movie in four years (since 2006′s Hwang Jini), while her last drama was 2008′s The World They Live In. She has, however, taken on a non-Korean film project in the interim, Wong Kar-wai’s The Grand Master, which is still in production. Song is currently in China for filming, but will wrap her shoots shortly.
I like Song Hye-gyo, and I think she’s a better actress than her roles have shown, but I do have reservations about her acting. It sounds like this is a subtle, introspective type of project, and requires an emotional depth that she hasn’t been able to tap into yet. I’ve found that despite a natural screen presence, she has a sort of emotional wall that you hit at a certain point, keeping viewers at a distance. Perhaps director Lee will be able to draw more out of her.
Via Star News
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I like Song Hye-gyo. Hope she will do well in her new project.
Love SHG wish her all the best!!!! Miss her from our screens.
lol a rain news and a hye gyo one …
i’ve found her to be a quite limited actress, and she was the main reason i couldn’t get into The World We Live In. you’re spot on about the lack of emotional depth in her acting. will be interesting to see if she breaks that wall.
i miss her comedic acting. hope to see her acting again in korean drama or movie
I miss her look in Full House, now she looks like a normal 30 something of age.
Yes yes!! I love Song Hye Kyo… she’s sooooooooooooo beautiful~ and the best actress *¬*….
Agree with you regarding the emotional depth part. Been a fan of hers for years now, and noticed that. It’s as if she doesn’t dare/want to show her real vulnerable side to people even in scenes when she needs to… so am definitely interested to see how this movie goes, and her possible growth.
“I miss her look in Full House, now she looks like a normal 30 something of age.”
Are you kidding me? Normal? 30 something? C’mon, she’s still as beautiful as ever and I can’t wait to see her again whether it be a movie or drama but…
“i miss her comedic acting”
… what I would really like to see is SHK in a trendy romcom drama which I feel is where her strength truly lies. It’s really disappointing how she hasn’t explored that area a bit further.
Is she the one dating Hyun Bin?
I’ve still yet to see her in any of her works, but she remains physically breathtaking. There is nothing “normal looking” about this woman/actress. If this is the average 30-something in your neighborhood, please include a return address and ready yourself for a stampede of hungry males…
I’m so agree with you, she need to tap her emotional feeling in her acting.
Hope she can show more of her ability in here ^^.
Pretty picture, I can’t stop staring hehe.
Hope the deals pulls through. It’s been a while
finally some news about SHK. I was wondering where she went. come back SHK!
i adore her. i’ve always wanted to look like her, or kim hee sun. i think she has one of the most ridiculously photogenic and pretty faces in the business.
i agree that she’s a better actress than she gets credit for, but there’s something reserved and held back about her acting. she doesn’t immerse herself as deeply as she could- she can pull off one hell of a crying scene though. she can cry VERY well… han ga-in comes to mind. her crying scenes last week were ridiculously unrealistic. anyway i think she showed off a personal-best performance in worlds within. it wasn’t a great performance, and maybe it’s because it’s one of my favorite dramas ever, but there were times when i could empathize with her character. it’s just that there weren’t enough of those times… i really want to see her in something again though!!!
She has the classic beauty looks,but not so great without makeup. As for her acting, she need to dig deep and bring out the depth and varied facets of her characters she played. Some of the other actresses of her age are able to do that.
I like her and this is good news rather than reading her being a jealous gf.
i hope she can deliver…she is limited but i think w/ the right PD and support plus maybe workshop (if its even done by korean actors) she should be able to play her character well.
go SHK!
She is so beautiful. Love to see her back in a drama. Best of Luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Song Hye Kyo is a tomboy (really, a guy at heart), and it’s reflected in her acting. Whenever she asks to play off her feminity, it’s awkward for her, be it playing a seductress or an ingenue. She struggles with the cinematic girlishness/womanhood that a master manipulator/Ha Ji Won has essentially built with her entire career. Above all, Song Hye Kyo constantly has to play “weak” or demure, and she instinctively fights it.
I did like her Hwang Jini though. Very, very cold and distant, and closer to that bullish presence which I’ve wanted her entire career to show most forthrightly. There’s a slightly intimidating vibe about SHK that shows when you see her act opposite actors of similar age, partially because she had playing opposite older male leads. Lee Byung Heon, Kim Seung Woo, and Kim Min Jong are just three.
Song Hye Kyo is also somewhat like Kwon Sang Woo, in that both actors were tracked early on to doing melodramas. And that both stars have let Hallyu tastes sharply influence (limit?) their career, and have publicly groused about it. It’s worth keeping in mind; she resents Autumn Tale and she didn’t like her role in All In. Yet, where KSW cynically pandered to the Hallyu audience, SHK lives in a passive-aggressive relationship with her career. By the time she was 22, in 3 years, she had done 6 projects and been in a lead in 5 shows. Since then, from 22 to 29, she has completed 4 projects.
*giggling*
Rain and Hyegyo on the same page. Okay, I am a die-hard Bi-Kyo shipper, HyunBin or no HyunBin.
i simply LOVE her so much ♥
Thanks for coming back girl !
I find she is mostly concern about her looks on screen than what she can do abt her limited acting instead.
Does she still have this speech pronunciation issues in her acting. LOL
SHK just has that cool, ice queen persona that makes it hard to relate to her, but at the same time audiences can’t stop looking away. I’ve always thought that she could play the Betty Draper (Mad Men) type; impossibly beautiful housewife but cold, sad, and isolated.
I’m excited for her project with WKW, as he’s always been known to draw out performances from the limited range of pop stars.
i thought i was the only one that thought that about SHG. her acting isn’t as bad as say HGI or KTH (no offense to those actresses) but i’ve always felt like something was missing with her acting. like it’s almost to the point of being great but didn’t quite make it. it’s not as moving or as heart wrenching as someone like SYJ or HJW. with SYJ, i feel like she transforms herself every time and immerses herself in the character that she’s playing. she’s just brilliant. i think, given the right role, the right director etc, SHG can definitely break through whatever barrier that’s holding her back and shine even brighter.
SHK just appeared at WON BIN’S movie premiere, i hope they will have a new movie or drama
I accepted her natural beauty as everyone mentioned that she’s borned to be. But, it’s not enough for being the actress. The drama series at least show for 20 episodes, the viewers can’t just sit to see only the beauty on screen.
Sometimes, the beauty can shine inside-out, if the actress can break through the emotion and the acting role, it will attract the attention of the production, camera, and viewers.
She’s now participating in many projects which I do hope she can really get into the roles.