Jung Ho-Yeon, who recently won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Squid Game, is the latest addition to Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming series for Apple TV+, Disclaimer, led by Cate Blanchett.
Announced in December 2021, the thriller series will also feature actors Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Cuarón is set to write, direct, and executive produce the series as a part of an multi-year deal with the streamer. Disclaimer will be the first original series to have all episodes written and directed by the multiple Academy Award-winning filmmaker.
Based on Renee Knight’s novel of the same name, Disclaimer will star Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower (played by Kline) appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realise she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past.
Jung will reportedly play a character named Kim, who is described as ambitious, hard-working, and eager-to-please.
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The South Korean model made her acting debut with Squid Game, the Netflix show about 456 contestants risking their lives in a mysterious survival game for a chance to win 45.6 billion won. Squid Game premiered on September 17, 2021 and became Netflix’s biggest launch ever amassing over 142 million household views in the first four weeks. A second season of the hit show is in the works.
Squid Game also made history by becoming the first-ever non-English language show to win Screen Actors Guild awards, in February, with Jung and co-actor Lee Jung-jae nabbing the lead acting awards.
While accepting her award, Jung had said, “I have sat many a times watching you on the big screen, dreaming of one day becoming an actor. I just want to say thank you so much. Thank you for making me dream and opening the doors for me.”