He hides his joy Song-Kang ho well. A smile of circumstance, a black tuxedo, and a very short speech. The South Korean actor didn’t emulate Roberto Benigni’s whimsical exuberance, to say the least.
However, on screen, in Kore-Eda’s new film The Good Stars (Broker), which will be released in theaters on December 7, he was able to distill a thousand and one shades of emotion. In this endearing road movie rattling through Korea, he embodies a dry-cleaning boss, involved in baby trafficking, who will form over the miles, a small family of odds and ends united by bonds of affection and love. ‘friendship.
This Saturday evening, in Cannes, on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, it was through small gestures and a few clumsiness that we could discern that the revelation of Parasite, was moved more than he wanted to let it be. appear.
Behind his smiling mask, his “poker face”, the actor is troubled by emotion. We will have noticed that he does not speak into the right microphone, that he was stolen by his translator. Immediately, he would like to thank Hirokazu Kore-eda, whom he considers “a very great author”.
Born on February 25, 1967 in Gimhae in South Gyeongsang, Song-Kang ho is one of the emblematic actors of the new wave of South Korean cinema. Favorite actor of director Bong Joon-Ho, Song-Kan ho is revealed in the jubilant comedy Parasite, multi-award winning around the world, palme d’or at Cannes in 2019, then Oscar for best foreign film the same year.
As he recounted at the beginning of May last year at the Seoul Film Festival, Song Kang-ho expected “meticulous and calculated” acting direction from Kore-eda. “But he really respected us and brought out our emotions in a way that was really free, caring and inexhaustible.”
In 25 years of career, Song Kang-ho has toured with many South Korean directors including Park Chan-wook (Thirst, this is my blood in 2009 or Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance in 2003) and Bong Joon-ho (Memories of a Murder in 2004, The Host in 2006, before Parasite).
Earlier in the week, in Cannes, when asked if the planetary triumph of Parasite has changed his life, the actor will answer with unfeigned modesty: “No, not at all. It didn’t change anything for me. Believe me.”
With this prize for male interpretation obtained at Cannes, we bet that he will begin to become aware of his immense tragicomic talent…
