Kim So-yi, 27 Years Into Career, Endless Growth: "Weekly Acting Training... Contemplating How to Be a Good Actor" [Interview ②]

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Actor Kim So-yi, in her 27th year since debut, is still learning 'acting.' She honestly shared the process of enduring even the pain of facing herself to become a stronger actor.

On the 28th, we spoke with Kim So-yi at the Seoul Jongno-gu StarNews building. Regarding her recent activities, Kim said, "Lately, I have been diligently undergoing acting training, devoting my body and mind to the academy," and revealed that she is learning the Meisner acting technique.

The reason she began acting training was after confronting her own uncertainty while acting. She stated, "In the United States, actors have long learned and utilized acting techniques, and it has only recently been localized and academies established."

She continued, "Even lead actors are attending, and there are friends who have not yet debuted. They train together, and lead actors are stimulated by watching those who have not yet debuted, while conversely learning a lot from them. I am training with many actors, and it is very helpful. As an actor, Kim So-yi is expanding, but as a human being, Kim So-yi, I feel my muscles becoming firmer and expanding."

For Kim So-yi, acting is both art and technique. She said that if she takes even a short break from acting, she feels her honed senses becoming dull. After much contemplation on how to consistently maintain this sense firmly, she focused on 'acting training.'

However, this process is by no means easy. Kim said, "It is difficult because it is a task of accepting myself and facing even the aspects I had been suppressing. It is a method of finding that character within me, so it is somewhat different from method acting. I think I have mostly escaped when acting. From my perspective, expressing painful emotions as a character allows for self-healing. But now, I am going through a training stage of accepting even the emotions and aspects I used to dislike as that character."

Describing herself as coldly objective, she also mentioned the 'Repetition' training. Kim explained, "It is a process of exchanging emotions with others and facing changes in my own emotions. By revealing raw emotions, defense mechanisms are released, and in the process, feelings of self-hatred may arise."

She added, "Through training, I received feedback from the coach to accept and acknowledge even those aspects and to love myself. Rather than distinguishing between good and bad emotions, I try to accept them as 'this is just my emotion.'"

Throughout the interview, Kim So-yi expressed her wish to "continuously grow and develop." She stated, "For the past year, I have continued acting training every week without missing a single session. After hearing that Tom Hanks also undergoes Repetition training, I thought I should continue this consistently."

She continued, "I ponder once a day on how I can become a good actor. I think the answer can only be known by looking back. I am currently in the process, and even if the answer is not visible before my eyes, I believe I am at a stage of picking up traces of the answer one by one."

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