Hoyeon: Intimate conversations with the Squid Game Star | LOUIS VUITTON

My mom always told me I have this strength of adventure in me. She always told me, be yourself. I think it is important to me just not losing that kind of sense of wonder and curiosity. I was a model for LV. It is amazing that I met them again as an actress. And then now I'm an ambassador. I think it's a kind of new chapter. It's like being fairytale. I mean, who doesn't know Vuitton? I think I know Vuitton since I was born. My mom didn't have any Vuitton, but I got it for her. I got one bag for her this year. She was so happy. She was kind of like proud of me. I grew up in Myeonmok-dong. It's like a little, not little, but it's a town in Seoul. I think I grew up as a kid who played a lot of pranks. And I grew up listening to a lot of K-pop songs. I think I was a kid who liked to dance and sing. I was always curious, so I think I was a kid who had a lot of things I wanted to try. I did five shows for Louis Vuitton. Five or six. And this is going to be my sixth show with Louis Vuitton. So nervous. I'm going to open the show. I haven't walked on runway over like two years. My first Vuitton show, it was super amazing. Walking is so easy, right? Like you're doing it every single day. But walking on runway is quite different. I was so nervous at the time. I kind of, I don't remember like how did I walk. I only remember that Nicola was smiling. But like he's been smiling ever since I met him. You know, like Sora and Heejung, we were so happy to be together at that moment. It was a lot of history because we traveled together to Kyoto. Oh my god! This was my first show with Louis Vuitton. It was amazing. I, at that point, I was dreaming about being an actor. This girl in this video, she would never imagine that she's gonna get the SAG awards. No. Yeah. Because she's just watching a lot of movies while she's traveling. She has this desire to find a role to play. At some point, I was kind of, what should I do for a living? People near me, they told me, you could be a model because you're tall. And then I was just like, why not? So that, that's why I started to get into the model business. I just wanted to try. At that time, I think I had very high self-confidence. And then when I failed at the Korea Next Top Model Season 2, it crushed my self-confidence. But that helped me to kind of move forward. So it was quite weird to say it, but now I can slowly realize this is kind of the moment that if I want to do something better, I gotta put a lot of effort on it. You know, after Speed Game, things go so fast, and then it wasn't my rhythm. But I think it is fine to go different rhythm. And then I'm slowly getting used to it. And then I think I can do it. I gave this to Nicola for present. And then Nicola gave me back for the show, for good luck. So I have a superpower in my pocket. So it was super amazing. Everything was perfect. Yeah, it was so amazing. Thank you, Nicola. Just everything. Just being able to dream, just being alive, I think it's a really happy and grateful thing. I want to dream more and just live on. And I hope many people do.