Hoyeon is makeup-free as she checks in to our video call from her apartment in Seoul, wearing a loose khaki T-shirt from the Japanese brand Kapital, her naturally wavy hair scraped back in a messy ponytail. This isn’t the first time we’ve met—I interviewed the 31-year-old actress and model a few months before her 2022 win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, when she was living through the whirlwind of Squid Game success.
Back then, Hoyeon seemed thrilled about the show but also a little shell-shocked. “Everything was just so chaotic and hectic,” she recalls now. “I felt like I had to learn on the fly and improvise every moment. But now I have a lot more room to think, to reflect on myself and learn about myself. I’ve become more used to the life of an actor.”
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