“On this Academy marketing campaign, I feel I have to make a plan to… remove a few of the different nominees,” Lee joked with TooFab completely. Lee is up towards Chalamet, Clooney, DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons and Ethan Hawke.
Timothée Chalamet, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and extra have to maintain an eye fixed out for Lee Byung-hun.
Whereas strolling the purple carpet on the premiere of his new movie No Different Alternative, Lee Byung-hun informed TooFab‘s Christina Cavaleri that he has his eyes on the Golden Globe.
The South Korean actor made historical past by being the primary Korean nominated for Golden Globe Award for Greatest Actor in a Movement Image Musical or Comedy.
“On this Academy marketing campaign, I feel I have to make a plan to … remove a few of the different nominees,” Lee quipped with Cavaleri completely. Lee is up towards Chalamet, Clooney, DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons and Ethan Hawke. “Joke. It is a joke,” Lee continued, earlier than being reminded who he was up towards. “Watch out,” he added.
Lee is not any stranger to eliminating the competitors, as its a by means of line for his characters of Yoo Man-soo in No Different Alternative and Entrance Man in Squid Recreation. Whereas talking with TooFab, the actor admitted he did have award season on his thoughts whereas making ready for No Different Alternative.
“I thought of that a bit bit as a result of it is director Park Chan-wook’s film,” he shared. Park, after all, is not any stranger to acclaim, having picked up main honors at Cannes, the BAFTAs, Blue Dragon Movie Awards and tons of movie festivals world wide.
Together with No Different Alternative, Lee has one other movie up for Golden Globes — KPop Demon Hunters — after voicing the principle demon villain, Gwi-Ma. The animated movie grew to become a cultural phenomenon after its Netflix launch, scoring a sequel. Nevertheless, Lee admitted he would not know a lot in regards to the subsequent storyline.
“I do not know. I do not learn about that. However I feel they could make a second one, I feel. That is all I do know,” he mentioned, earlier than revealing if he listens to the soundtrack simply as a lot as the remainder of us.
“My two-year-old daughter at all times listens to that music. So I take heed to them robotically. My daughter likes ‘Golden,’ so I like ‘Golden’ too,” Lee mentioned.
2026 Golden Globe Nominations — See Full Record and Snubs!
View Story
As soon as extra area of interest within the US, Korean content material has reworked into a world cultural phenomenon, thanks largely to Okay-pop and movies together with No Different Alternative and Parasite turning into the brand new mainstream. So what’s it about Korean content material that has us all hooked?
“My mates working in Hollywood film trade, they mentioned to me, ‘Korean content material, the storyline may be very unpredictable,'” Lee defined to Cavaleri. “That is the facility of Korean content material,” he added.
Squid Recreation, after all, is one other piece of artwork from the Korean movie and tv trade that made waves world wide — a lot so that there’s presently an English model of the collection within the works.
“I feel any nation and any story may be made with a plan and thought like Squid Recreation,” Lee mentioned.
He continued: “As a result of it has the colour of a fantasy style, I feel we will make quite a lot of enjoyable tales with creativeness. I feel an thought like Squid Recreation may be rendered in different international locations and cultures as properly as a result of it is type of a part of the style of fantasy so folks can actually use their creativeness to make it their very own.”
