Song Hye Gyo, one of Asia's biggest female stars thanks to a wildly popular television series, on Saturday said she is determined to match her success in romantic comedies with more serious roles. -- PHOTO: KBS
BUSAN (AFP) - Song Hye Gyo, one of Asia's biggest female stars thanks to a wildly popular television series, on Saturday said she is determined to match her success in romantic comedies with more serious roles.
'I want the roles I now play to be very different. I am trying to find very different and unique roles to play,' said Song, speaking on the sidelines of the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF).
The 28-year-old South Korean, whose face is plastered on billboards across the region, said the parts she was now choosing were designed to be more challenging.
That's certainly the case with Song's latest film role. In the Lee Jeong Hyang directed drama A Reason to Live - making its world premiere at BIFF - Song plays a young woman forced through tragedy to question the rights and wrong of capital punishment.
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