Lee Byung-hun recently admitted that he was surprised and happy to find that he has been nominated Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
The actor, who was nominated in the Musical or Comedy category for his performance in Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice,” shared in an interview with Deadline that it was a great honour to him to be able to get nominated along with other big names.
“I’d be lying if I were to say I was hoping for it. Of course, we don’t know what’s going to happen. And I think, in terms of the category, whether it’s a directing award, award for the project itself, or a nomination for myself as an actor, I think what really matters is hopefully all this attention, or news being written about the project, will get as much people as possible into the theatres to watch this movie,” he said.
As to what he thinks about being nominated in the Comedy or Musical category, seeing that it was his choice to play his character in the movie comedically, Lee said, “I think my intention… is because Director Park, if you look at his filmography, not a lot of films have this much humour in it. Of course, there’s always some elements of humour, but not to this extent.”
“So, it was really just me checking with him to make sure that this was the correct approach for a film that has so many depressing elements and has a certain bitterness to it, because it’s reflecting the reality of a lot of the things that we’re experiencing. I thought it was really great that we could laugh watching this movie,” he expressed.
Lee will be facing a tough competition from stars like Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), George Clooney (“Jay Kelly”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”), Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”) and Jesse Plemons (“Bugonia”).
The film is also nominated in the Best Non-English Language Film and Best Film – Musical or Comedy category.
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