Actor You Need to Know: Zo In-sung

Zo is conspicuous in how full-grown the character he creates is. He goes in-depth with the character's life, forging a bond with him, which ideally serves a narrative and speaks to us

- DEBASHREE DUTTA

THE LONGER he is on screen, the more engaging the scene becomes. That would mean Zo In-sung-the sightly Korean star, a stud of a man, and one heck of an actor who just gets ops better with age. You get the drift if you're watching his latest, Moving, the webtoon-based magnum opus of superheroes-a sci-fi action fantasy K-drama. Zo has Kim Doo-sik, code-named Moon-san, a free-swinging debonaire NIS (National Intelligence Service) black operative who can fly. He is also the ex-NIS agent of extraordinary senses, Lee Mi-hyun's (Han Hyo-joo's) husband. Their romance is all heart, compelling story arc aside. When they are edging past each other, interacting, or whatever, that chemistry is insane, and Zo, in all facets of his persona, never ceases to make a statement.

Setting about as a model, he transitioned into acting through sitcoms, starring in the anthological teen drama School 3 (2000) but impressing as the renegade, irate Lee Kyung-ho breaking eventually into the gangland within the praised Piano (2001), a melodrama of a loving father and an illicit affair between stepsiblings.