{"id":50314,"date":"2026-11-10T00:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/in-possible-love-jeon-do-yeon-delivers-the-years-most-shattering-performance-can-it-take-her-to-the-oscars\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:35:11","slug":"in-possible-love-jeon-do-yeon-delivers-the-years-most-shattering-performance-can-it-take-her-to-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/in-possible-love-jeon-do-yeon-delivers-the-years-most-shattering-performance-can-it-take-her-to-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Possible Love,\u2019 Jeon Do-yeon Delivers the Year\u2019s Most Shattering Performance. Can It Take Her to the Oscars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the nearly three decades since she made her big-screen debut in 1997\u2019s <em>The Contact<\/em>, Jeon Do-yeon has earned a richly deserved reputation in South Korea\u2014and far beyond it\u2014as the kind of actor who inhabits her characters so fully that it ceases to feel like acting at all. (International audiences likely know her best for 2007\u2019s <em>Secret Sunshine<\/em>, a wrenching portrait of a grieving mother that made her the first Korean performer to win an acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival.)<\/p>\n<p>Critics often reach for the word \u201cfearless\u201d to describe her, but when we speak via Zoom at the tail end of a marathon press day in Seoul, Jeon waves that notion away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always scared, and I\u2019m full of fear, especially in front of the camera,\u201d she says, with a laugh. \u201cI\u2019ve been working as an actor for quite some time, but it\u2019s an ongoing process.\u201d In fact, it\u2019s important to her that she never gets too comfortable. \u201cI actually enjoy having that fear and anxiety, and trying my best to work through it, because sometimes something completely new comes out of that struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That willingness to sit in discomfort is vividly,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/jeon-do-yeon-possible-love-interview\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nearly three decades since she made her big-screen debut in 1997\u2019s The Contact, Jeon Do-yeon has earned a richly deserved reputation in South Korea\u2014and far beyond it\u2014as the kind of actor who inhabits her characters so fully that it ceases to feel like acting at all. (International audiences likely know her best for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2665,36],"class_list":["post-50314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-culture-tv-movies","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}