Lee-El shares her experience to play old lady in “Guardian/Goblin”

One supporting character in the tvN drama “Guardian/Goblin” which fascinates audience is the goddes of birth. The actress Lee-El shares her experience to play the old lady in the drama including a long preparation.

As a goddess of birth, her timeline move in reverse order. She was pictured as a very old lady in the early episode of “Goblin”, but later she become a voluptuous young lady. The actress who played the character Lee-El shared her experience as reported by Hankook Ilbo.

The 34-year old actress said that she must put on a make up and prosthetic for five hours to perfect her transformation as a very old lady in the “Guardian” which is also known as “Goblin” drama. She also shared her concern to play a woman whose age is almost three times her age. However, after the first shooting she became more confident because the scriptwriter Kim Eun-Sook praised her.

"After the first take, the writer praise me and told me that I was doing great. Then, all the worries washed away," Lee said.

In order to immerse in her character, actress whose real name is Kim Ji-Hyun learn to walk slowly like the very old lady in the “Guardian” drama. While the creative team guided her to lower the tone of her voice to the precise pitch of an old lady. She has successfully surprised many audience when she appeared as a young woman as she passed by Duk-Hwa.

Prior to this project, she was also played in other tvN drama “Entourage” as reported by Seoul Daily News. She has no problem to play in the drama because she played as herself, the actress who was approached by Lee Ho-Jin to persuade her to work with the main character Young-Bin.

In the “Goblin” Lee-El showed her acting skills to play two characters with a very long age gap. Watch a slight of her performance in the six minutes preview of the drama below:

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