In South Korean director Park Chan-wook's romantic comedy I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, Lim Soo-jung plays a girl who thinks she's a robot. But in reality, she's every inch a human.
'I've never imagined that I have any extraordinary powers or abilities. I only feel that I'm not good enough, so I think about further study and improving myself,' said the 26-year-old, who was nominated for best actress at this week's Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.
Lim (above), named best new actress at the Pusan Film Critics Awards, Korean Film Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2003 for her part in thriller A Tale of Two Sisters, said she was happy to be offered the role in Park's new film of a patient in a lunatic asylum who talks to machines and refuses to eat. 'The character is very interesting. It's not the type you usually see in movies,' said Lim. 'It's about the pressure people face in reality.'
Lim said she had wanted to work with Park, who won the Cannes Grand Jury Prize in 2004 for his action drama, Old Boy. 'I like all his movies. He knows girls' hearts very well,' she said, referring to the director's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.