Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn is ready for her Oscars close-up

Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn is ready for her Oscars close-up

Entertainment Weekly-Movie·2021-04-10 20:00

In South Korea she's a household name, a mainstay of film and television for nearly half a century. At last January's Sundance festival in Park City, Utah, Yuh-Jung Youn got to be something else: an American ingenue.

When the lights went up after the premiere of her English-language feature debut, Lee Isaac Chung's exquisite family drama Minari (out now), the actress, 73, recalls via phone from her home in Seoul, "I was actually shocked, because we didn't expect having applause from the audience…. All of [the cast] was crying. I'm the only one who didn't cry! My friend said to me, 'You are very strange,'" she admits, cackling. "But later when Isaac got the award and got a standing ovation, I cried."

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