Naver reports that the actor surrounding the Kim Soo-Hyun scandal is spiral out of control. On March 28, the brother of the deceased actress Sulli publicly asked for an explanation from Kim Soo-Hyun about the unreasonable requests made during the involvement of Suli in “Real”, a film that eventually damaged his career.
However, on it was not the only victim. Another beloved star, Suzy, was also misleading in adhesion to the project, just to face a bitter result.
Suzy has undergone 6 hours of tattoos for only 1 second on the screen
In “Real”, Suzy made a surprise cameo, a shocking audience with his dramatically altered appearance: loose hair, revealing clothes, tattoos that cover his body and a cigarette in his hand. It was a clear contrast with the image of his “first love of the nation”.
According to the cinematographic crew, Suzy has spent six hours receiving temporary tattoos, as well as training for a very different role from his usual I. Yet, after all this effort, his time on the screen has been reduced to one second, an insignificant moment that did not serve the film.
Suzy and Kim Soo-Hyun worked for the first time together on “Dream High” (2011) and when Kim Soo-Hyun invited her to appear in “Real”, he agreed without hesitation. However, according to what reported, he was unable to inform him of the extensive tattoos that he should have worn on his body and his face. After filming, Suzy faced him, saying, “You never told me that this was part of the scene.”
Kim Soo-Hyun accused of exploiting female celebrities to sexualize their bodies
Since then, the spectators have criticized Kim Soo-Hyun for bringing Suzy to the project without full dissemination, claiming that forcing a female star to modify his appearance for a simple shock value was the exploiter.
In the same way, he was also made to film unnecessary explicit scenes, who subjected it to a public backlash and eventually damaged his career.
REAL – A failed vanity project?
“Real” follows Jang Tae-Young (Kim Soo-Hyun), an ambitious and ruthless man involved in the criminal underground world, who plans to build a casino hotel to gain control over the city. However, when a journalist begins to dig in his secrets, his world begins to reveal.
Released in 2017, “Real” was widely considered a failed vanity project by Kim Soo-Hyun and his cousin, the director Lee Sa-Rong. In addition to being criticized for his lack of quality, the film has been slammed for his sexualization of female characters, with excessive nudity, gambling and violence.
Lee Sa-Rong and Kim Soo-Hyun have even promoted “Real” as “Sulli’s Real Nude Scene”, which led to a serious recourse against the deceased actress. Suli’s family later revealed that after turning “Real”, he suffered an extreme emotional anguish, telling those who surrounded her, “I will never recite in a movie again”, And in the end he looked for a psychological treatment.
