Right from her very first feature, Jeon Jong-seo has established that she is a daring actress, when it comes to her film choices. Starting her career on a very strong foot as Hae-mi in Lee Chang-dong’s acclaimed “Burning”, she has gone on to play a psychotic serial killer from the past in Lee Chung-hyun‘s “The Call” and had a frank conversation on sex and relationships in the romance “Nothing Serious”, while also making her international debut in an Ana Lily Amirpour feature. Yet again, she subverts expectations and changes genres, this time going full-action mode in “The Call” director and real-life boyfriend Lee Chung-hyun’s new work “Ballerina”.
Synopsis
Ok-ju used to work as a bodyguard. She excels in physical activities like martial arts, sword fighting, gunmanship, and motorcyle riding. She is friends with Min-hee, who is a ballerina. Min-hee asks Ok-ju for a favor. She wants Ok-ju to take revenge on Pro Choi. Ok-ju soon risks her life for her friend.
Joinin Jeon are Kim Ji-hoon (who she also worked with on the Korean adaptation of the series “Money Heist”), who plays Pro Choi, and Park Yu-rim. The film is confirmed to stream worldwide on Netflix starting October 6th.