SHORTLY AFTER Squid Game’s debut, Hoyeon was everywhere: attending the Gotham awards, presenting at the CFDA awards, appearing on the cover of Vogue, politely dodging a queue of studio heads and power agents circling her at the LACMA Art+Film Gala. “I wasn’t prepared. I said yes first, then was nervous later. I just did it.”
THE MINUTE Hoyeon learned she’d won the SAG Award for female actor in a drama series—beating out Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Elisabeth Moss, and Sarah Snook—she thought one word: “Shit.” She recovered, delivering an emotional speech before joining her heroes in the greenroom. “Meryl Streep came to me and says, ‘Oh, I’m so happy to see you alive.’ That means that she watched Squid Game!”
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WHAT’S NEXT? “Maybe we should lobby for my character to come back in season two,” she jokes. In the meantime, she’s reading scripts, parenting two rescue cats, and hoping one day to play the Little Mermaid.
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