Kim Yeji of Korea, seen throughout the Paris Olympics in August, has been solid as an murderer in a “short-form series.”
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South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeji, who received a silver medal and the web’s adoration on the Summer season Olympics, has landed her first performing position.
She’s going to play an murderer, a becoming gig for the athlete whose icy perspective has already earned her comparisons to motion heroes like James Bond and John Wick.
Kim’s modern road model (a black tracksuit and baseball cap, typically worn backward), plus her cyborg-esque capturing glasses and casual-yet-confident stance (she fired with one hand on her hip, simply above the plush elephant hanging from her waistband) made her a “main character” of the Video games.
Lots of her on-line admirers stated on the time that Kim reminded them of an motion film star, and a few even referred to as for her to turn out to be one.
“She should be cast in an action movie,” Elon Musk tweeted. “No acting required!”
It seems to be like their needs are coming true.
Indian influencer and actress Anushka Sen wrote on Instagram final week that she is working with Kim on an upcoming “global project,” utilizing hashtags together with #Crush and #Moviecrush.
Within the accompanying video, Sen is sporting a leather-based outfit and struggling to wield a pistol when Kim, in her trademark black hoodie, strolls over and adjusts Sen’s stance with a coy smile. A second clip exhibits them standing back-to-back, lifting a pair of pistols into the digicam.
“So happy to collaborate with [Kim], Olympics silver medalist; the most popular Korean shooting player in the world,” Sen wrote to her 39 million followers.
A spokesperson for the Seoul-based leisure agency Asia Lab confirmed to AFP that Kim will play an murderer in Crush, which they described as a “spinoff short-form series of the global film project ‘Asia.’”
The corporate stated it’s excited to see “the potential synergy that will arise from Kim Ye-ji and Anushka Sen’s new transformation into a killer duo.”
NPR has reached out to Asia Lab for extra particulars.
Whereas that is Kim’s first performing position, her social media virality has opened up different real-life alternatives in latest weeks.
She signed with a expertise company, whose spokesperson advised the Korea Herald in August that “nearly 20 brands want to use her in advertisements, and over 10 TV shows are interested in featuring her.”
Kim, 32, has since completed a variety of photoshoots with style manufacturers, together with a Louis Vuitton shoot for the journal W Korea, a collaboration with MLB Korea featured in Vogue and a marketing campaign with Givenchy and the journal Singles, as seen on her Instagram.
Kim’s company advised the Herald that her athletic profession stays her high precedence.
Along with profitable silver within the Olympic 10 meter air pistol ladies’s occasion, Kim additionally received gold — and set a brand new world file — within the 25 meter pistol on the Worldwide Taking pictures Sport Federation World (ISSF) Taking pictures Championships earlier this 12 months. Movies of her profitable shot additionally went viral throughout her Olympic debut.
In an August interview with the ISSF, Kim stated she appreciates the eye — particularly a meme exhibiting her alongside iconic motion film stars — however hopes extra of it’s going to go in direction of the game itself.
“I am very thankful that the general public and the internet is loving me on social media, but I am not like an influencer, I am a shooting sport athlete,” she stated by a translator. “I wish this love and interest is not just for me and this will go to the shooting sports.”
