Song Kang-ho says he feels the weight of responsibility as one of the most recognisable faces of Korean cinema.
Song Kang-ho at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. Photo: Reuters
Song Kang-ho says he feels the weight of responsibility as one of the most recognisable faces of Korean cinema after the global success of, the 56-year-old actor was back at this year's festival with an out-of-competition comedy,, about a director desperately trying to change the ending of his film to turn it into a masterpiece.shows the director struggling to manage the chaos of angry producers, hysterical actors and over-bearing censors.
Song was already a major star in South Korea long before"Parasite" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and Best Picture at the Oscars the following year."Not at all did I expect to become famous. I never even dreamed of playing in a film," he said. "I was a stage actor 30 years ago and my dream was to become a very good actor on stage. I really tumbled into films and the cinema industry by chance."and two other films, told the New York Times that he first met Song during that period in the 1990s and could immediately"tell he had the makings of a juggernaut".
Song proved him right, bringing an everyman quality to very diverse roles, from a country detective in Bong's
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