Kim Sam Soon Character
SAM SOON is a sincere and direct person. In the movie she is a Patisse or more commonly known as Baker. Her objective in life is to search for a good man and get married. Her principal of being a baker is “the cake she bakes has to put into box which she made herself”. Her passion of becoming a baker comes from an old French dessert book which consists of different kind of pastry.
Her way of looking at her life in the beginning comes from the movie Forrest Gump.
Life is just like a box of chocolates you will never know what you will get. Sam Soon interpret them as in a box there are many types of chocolates, there are some with nuts while some comes with rum. She doesn’t like chocolates in rum so as she grows older and wiser she tries not to choose those in rum.
However, the manager in Bon Appetite told her that since she had tried the run chocolate the numbers of it in her box is getting lesser.
She wanted her love life as a book she had read before
“There is a writer, every night before going to bed, the writer will write a letter and put on top her husband desk so that the next morning her husband will be the first reader. I will bake my first cake for Sam Shik and I will also let Sam Shik have the best cake I can bake too. I will love him like this and I will love Sam Shik this much”
Sam Soon encouragement on Sam Shik niece Meijo is based on a book called Momo, which has the similar character as Meijo.
Her relationship with Sam Shik is hard to come by and is disagree by Sam Shik’s mother. She dreamt of her father and told him that she is afraid that all the good things will end. Her father told her “Don’t be stupid my daughter, you have not enough time to go through your happy life, why think about other things that haven’t even happen. Live your life bravely and when you encounter any problems later in life, have faith in overcoming them.”
Books mentioned by Sam Soon
1. Momo by Michael Ende
2. In search of lost time by Marcel Proust (the book that she recommended for Henry)
Comments on her acting in My Lovely Sam Soon
Reading the original script of ‘My Lovely Sam-Soon’, she felt this is the kind of TV Drama which she could strongly relate to. She also feels that with Sam Soon character she could adapt to any situation and communicate just anything to any people, even like joys and sorrows of life.
Before shooting and at production meeting, people asked her why she didn’t try to change her image and kept doing similar roles. Back then she used to ask them enjoy the show first then only comment. She doesn’t know why people always think of transformations as something so important. She admitted that many of her roles were in the same classification. But without the opportunity to star in this drama, she would never been able to act the role that way which she gained a lot of experience from the drama personally. She is also thankful that a lot of people give her those encouragement at that time, she also admitted that she becomes more mature and wiser after acting in the role.
She also said that she still can’t re-watch the drama yet because the feeling is too strong. She feels that the most important thing is that, through the role of Sam Soon, she is able to show the kind of sincerity and feelings she never able to relate to in the past. She also says that for example, she used to think about a lot of ways of approaching crying scenes in the past, but she didn’t need that even once for ‘Sam-Soon’. She can go on acting without having to think of how the approach that she has to do because through this character, she was able to let a lot of things buried within her prevailed. She don’t know if the viewers could see when there is a scene that had Sam-Soon in an angry mood, she was really angry. When they shot the scenes of Sam Soon ‘talking’ with her dead father, she couldn’t sleep later.
Overseas promotion is just starting, so it looks like that feeling will linger on for quite a while. Maybe this show will have a strong effect on her career.
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