Kim Yeji of Korea, seen in the course of the Paris Olympics in August, has been forged as an murderer in a “short-form sequence.”
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South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeji, who gained a silver medal and the web’s adoration on the Summer season Olympics, has landed her first appearing function.
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 avenue type (a black tracksuit and baseball cap, typically worn backward), plus her cyborg-esque taking pictures 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 “essential character” of the Video games.
A lot of her on-line admirers mentioned on the time that Kim reminded them of an motion film star, and a few even known as for her to change into one.
“She needs to be forged in an motion film,” Elon Musk tweeted. “No appearing required!”
It appears 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 “world venture,” utilizing hashtags together with #Crush and #Moviecrush.
Within the accompanying video, Sen is carrying 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 reveals them standing back-to-back, lifting a pair of pistols into the digital camera.
“So completely happy to collaborate with [Kim], Olympics silver medalist; the preferred Korean taking pictures participant on the planet,” 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 sequence of the worldwide movie venture ‘Asia.’”
The corporate mentioned it’s excited to see “the potential synergy that may come up from Kim Ye-ji and Anushka Sen’s new transformation right into a killer duo.”
NPR has reached out to Asia Lab for extra particulars.
Whereas that is Kim’s first appearing function, 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 “practically 20 manufacturers need to use her in commercials, and over 10 TV reveals are enthusiastic about that includes her.”
Kim, 32, has since achieved plenty of photoshoots with trend 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 prime precedence.
Along with successful silver within the Olympic 10 meter air pistol girls’s occasion, Kim additionally gained gold — and set a brand new world document — within the 25 meter pistol on the Worldwide Taking pictures Sport Federation World (ISSF) Taking pictures Championships earlier this 12 months. Movies of her successful shot additionally went viral throughout her Olympic debut.
In an August interview with the ISSF, Kim mentioned she appreciates the eye — particularly a meme exhibiting her alongside iconic motion film stars — however hopes extra of it’s going to go in the direction of the game itself.
“I’m very grateful that most of the people and the web is loving me on social media, however I’m not like an influencer, I’m a taking pictures sport athlete,” she mentioned via a translator. “I want this love and curiosity isn’t just for me and it will go to the taking pictures sports activities.”
