The Hollywood Reporter speaks with Chung about playing Ji-Ah in "Meet Me in Daegu.", “Meet Me in Daegu,” directed by Helen Shaver and written by Misha Green and Kevin Lau, viewers are properly introduced to Ji-Ah , the mysterious Korean woman who has appeared in Tic’s dreams and nightmares through the season. So, which one is she: a dream or a nightmare? As it would turn out, she’s a bit of both.
Misha and the team gave me so much to work with. Just knowing that she is a kumiho, knowing her backstory, and the body that she inhabits, which was sexually assaulted by her step-father when she was very young, and knowing her mission in her life currently is to take a hundred souls in order for her to be reincarnated back to the daughter prior to the trauma so she wouldn’t have any of those horrific memories, gave me so much to work with.
Being Korean-American from a Christian family, they really shunned away Korean shamanism and mysticism and folklore, so I had not heard of the kumiho, the nine-tailed fox spirit, from the Korean’s perspective. I’ve seen it through Japanese animation, so I did have to do more research. But I mean there [are] vampire versions, and a lot of other different versions, but this one was by far the most interesting because it was quite literal.
Green has talked a lot about what legacy means in terms of the show and we see that play out on different levels through the Korean War setting. What does that theme of legacy mean to you in terms of your insight into Ji-Ah and her world? When Tic comes in and shoots Ji-Ah’s friend it’s shocking, and he’s in soldier mode. And you also see a scene which opens with Ji-Ah killing James Kyson Lee’s character. It’s all very violent, but then you get a chance to see what’s really inside and who they really are and it’s just people who are scared, people who are vulnerable, and people who just want love. And so their stories are actually very similar even though they’re coming from two different sides of the spectrum.
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