Director Lee Jung-Jae star in “Hunt” and the return of “Squid Game” – Cannes Studio

Lee Jung-jae is there with Brad Pitt in his native Korea, but Western viewers know him best as Netflix’s underdog star. squid game. Fans of the ultraviolent show created by Hwang Don-Hook will be delighted to learn that Lee’s directorial debut is just as heavy: an ’80s spy thriller with incredible ballet action not seen since its heyday. by John Woo. .

“This is a smoke extraction operation to find a carpet in the Korean CIA,” Lee said when he arrived at the Deadline Studio at the Cannes Film Festival. ᲜHunt The world premiere was held in the Midnight section. “And while all the agents are trying to do it, they learn of the huge conspiracy to assassinate the president of South Korea.”

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Although the film is based on real-life events related to the leak of secret information in North Korea, the film is largely fictional. “The character I play, named Park Pyong-ho, is a Korean CIA agent,” Lee said. “He’s been working for 13 years, so he’s a veteran agent, but he realizes that the basis of his belief in him may be wrong.” The beatings in the film mean that none of the characters are completely good and none are completely bad. “The people who are bad or evil in this film,” says Lee, “are actually people who instill bad ideologies in people and brainwash them.” These are the bad guys. [The characters in the film] “There are scams for people who brainwash and create ideology.”

In the film, Lee’s character fights his equivalent agent in the Korean Domestic Security Service (Jung Woo-sung Kim Jong-do) and they have some pretty intense battle scenes, like a brutal blow on a marble staircase. Who literally refrained from violence. “At first, I really wanted to put two characters between a rock and a hard place,” he says, “so I thought maybe more violence was needed. But after thinking twice, I decided I needed to focus more on the ironic situations where lie the two characters and the dilemmas they face.

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It is likely to come out in the fall, ᲜHunt It will fill a certain amount of timeout first squid game Come back. “Director Hwang is currently writing a second season,” Lee said. “I’m not sure when he will finish writing, but I think he will be soon. I can’t wait…”

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