. . the real CJW? . .
Can that really be sweet Ji Woo?
MOSHI MOSHI By Miharu Chang
changmc@sph.com.sg (this article is on 2004)
KOREAN actress Choi Ji Woo is as cute as they come.
The 29-year-old star has won rave reviews for her doe-eyed beauty - as well as her ability to cry on cue. Smitten fans will remember how she wept her way into Bae Yong Jun's heart in the hit drama Winter Sonata, and melted Kwon Sang Woo's in Stairway To Heaven.
But now, Ji Woo has undergone a drastic makeover, playing a brazen sex siren in the film Everybody Loves Secrets. It's already a hit in South Korea, with more than one million tickets sold since it opened in cinemas there three weeks ago. Ji Woo's transformation from virgin to vixen is startling to say the least.
For the first time in her nine-year career, she plays a sex-crazed woman bent on conquering a casanova played by Lee Byung Hun. For the movie poster alone she permed her hair, dressed provocatively and piled on layers of eyeliner.
One can't help but wonder: Who is the real Ji Woo?
'I'm quite optimistic, and I never have any extreme ideas,' she said recently. 'I'm also not very ambitious. I used to get really upset over criticism, but now I can face it graciously. I've become more mature with age.' The older she gets, the more popular she becomes.
She made her TV debut in 1995 after starting out as a child model and attending acting classes run by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. She dabbled in movies and played supporting roles in TV dramas until Beautiful Days catapulted her into the A-list in 2001. Now, Ji Woo is so hot in Japan that she was recently hired to front the new Japan-Korea Vist More campaign.
When she visited San Francisco recently, she was recognised by Asian fans who pointed and whispered, 'Isn't that Yu Jin (her character's name in Winter Sonata)?'. Her pet peeve, however, is hearing rumours that she has 'fixed' her face, especially her pert nose. 'My nose is real. I'm a 100 per cent natural,' she said last month. The cheerful actress, even joked that she used to push her nostrils up and call herself 'pig nose'.
When it comes to acting, she said it was only after Stairway To Heaven that she really fell in love with the camera. 'When I do the crying scenes, my heart will really ache,' she said. So is her heart aching for anyone in real life?
But asked on a variety show recently if she had a boyfriend, she smiled sweetly and replied 'Yes!' without elaborating. Congratulatory messages quickly poured in from fans. But her manager denied the revelation, claiming Ji Woo had said it only for comic effect.
Stairway To Heaven debuts on E City (StarHub Ch 56) Aug 23 at 7pm. Everybody Has Secrets opens here on Nov 4.
Source:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/hey/story/0,4136,71122,00.html?
Credits : Shepherd from Soompi from the old soompi and babygal from the old jiwoo singapore forum
MOSHI MOSHI By Miharu Chang
changmc@sph.com.sg (this article is on 2004)
KOREAN actress Choi Ji Woo is as cute as they come.
The 29-year-old star has won rave reviews for her doe-eyed beauty - as well as her ability to cry on cue. Smitten fans will remember how she wept her way into Bae Yong Jun's heart in the hit drama Winter Sonata, and melted Kwon Sang Woo's in Stairway To Heaven.
But now, Ji Woo has undergone a drastic makeover, playing a brazen sex siren in the film Everybody Loves Secrets. It's already a hit in South Korea, with more than one million tickets sold since it opened in cinemas there three weeks ago. Ji Woo's transformation from virgin to vixen is startling to say the least.
For the first time in her nine-year career, she plays a sex-crazed woman bent on conquering a casanova played by Lee Byung Hun. For the movie poster alone she permed her hair, dressed provocatively and piled on layers of eyeliner.
One can't help but wonder: Who is the real Ji Woo?
'I'm quite optimistic, and I never have any extreme ideas,' she said recently. 'I'm also not very ambitious. I used to get really upset over criticism, but now I can face it graciously. I've become more mature with age.' The older she gets, the more popular she becomes.
She made her TV debut in 1995 after starting out as a child model and attending acting classes run by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. She dabbled in movies and played supporting roles in TV dramas until Beautiful Days catapulted her into the A-list in 2001. Now, Ji Woo is so hot in Japan that she was recently hired to front the new Japan-Korea Vist More campaign.
When she visited San Francisco recently, she was recognised by Asian fans who pointed and whispered, 'Isn't that Yu Jin (her character's name in Winter Sonata)?'. Her pet peeve, however, is hearing rumours that she has 'fixed' her face, especially her pert nose. 'My nose is real. I'm a 100 per cent natural,' she said last month. The cheerful actress, even joked that she used to push her nostrils up and call herself 'pig nose'.
When it comes to acting, she said it was only after Stairway To Heaven that she really fell in love with the camera. 'When I do the crying scenes, my heart will really ache,' she said. So is her heart aching for anyone in real life?
But asked on a variety show recently if she had a boyfriend, she smiled sweetly and replied 'Yes!' without elaborating. Congratulatory messages quickly poured in from fans. But her manager denied the revelation, claiming Ji Woo had said it only for comic effect.
Stairway To Heaven debuts on E City (StarHub Ch 56) Aug 23 at 7pm. Everybody Has Secrets opens here on Nov 4.
Source:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/hey/story/0,4136,71122,00.html?
Credits : Shepherd from Soompi from the old soompi and babygal from the old jiwoo singapore forum
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