Actor You Need to Know: Park Gyuyoung

The Celebrity' star has never been confined to just a few genres or chances, so the sky is her limit, and she is steadily spreading her wings.

- DEBASHREE DUTTA

Seo Ah-ri (Park Gyu-young), to make it in social media’s cutthroat race for fame and fortune, takes chances, unequivocally, boosting her profile and following. Along the way, she grabs the spotlight while also running into its darker realms. This is a riveting tale—Celebrity (2023)—relevant given how we engage in social media and its massive impact on our daily lives, with plenty to grasp if you can see past the obvious: the deeper connotations—one being to choose words carefully—for their profundity can be alarming. And at the heart of it all lies Park’s subtle portrayal. Here we see common trends in an intriguing context: envy, an itch for control, and toxic human attitudes— played to perfection by the actors, notably Park’s facile expressiveness.

I’ve just completed watching the drama and felt it particularly pertinent to browse through her work. Her career hasn’t been so drawn-out to date, yet her scene-stealing performance in Celebrity