260923 Marie Claire Korea magazine interview with #KIMSEJEONG Eng trans Part 2
Q: Speaking of which, August 28 was your birthday. How are you accepting getting older?
🐶: Hmm... I don't think I think deeply about the doubts I had about myself or the appearance I wanted to show to others in my 20s. I am learning how to trust myself a bit more and respond as myself. Feeling that getting older is more fun than expected, I am greeting my 30s.
Q: We cannot leave out the story of I.O.I 10th anniversary activities either. An album filled with 6 songs, adding music broadcast appearances that were not in the schedule, and even a concert. Preparation must not have been easy, was there a special episode?
🐶: My learning speed is actually not on the fast side. My heart got anxious, so Sohye, Chaeyeon and I formed a special practice class and the three of us gathered to learn the dance in advance or stayed behind to practice. Still, it remains particularly in memory because it was a time when I could feel the passion that 'we will somehow make it happen'. Of course, the thought that it was a relief because ‘we were together’ entered my mind too.
The time spent together boisterously with members after working alone as a solo artist and actor for a long time must be special. We met when you were young girls, but it is an occupation where one has no choice but to mature quickly. Thoughts like that entered too. "It was a relief that we are gathered now." Even if I wanted to comfort during the period when we met without our own positions established, there were often moments when I couldn't easily strike up a conversation because I knew too well how that feeling was. Meeting again after 10 years passed, the pieces that looked like each person's pain in the past became the foundation for growth. Seeing everyone grown stronger, the time each endured in their own position was drawn before my eyes, so I was proud and reassured. I felt each and every member shining differently.
Q: Everyone grew up so well. How do people who have known you for a long time say Kim Sejeong is?
🐶: It's a bit embarrassing to say with my own mouth, but I hear that I am pure a lot. After all, I still have a lot of heart that I don't want to lose, and although the way I express normally is rough, I try to convey sincerity. Also, because I express that often, I wonder if I hear such words frequently. When meeting people, rather than trying to fit that person into the frame I have, I tend to try to understand that person as they are.
Q: Like the matter where you shared a letter containing your heart on SNS while leaving the agency you were with for a long time. That also felt like 'very Kim Sejeong-like' behavior somehow.
🐶: Because it's a company I shared joys and sorrows with for 10 years. I honestly wrote down how precious the past time was to many people who love and support me, with what heart I came to leave, and that both I and the company want to be supported for future paths. Everyone congratulated and supported me, so I was very thankful. Thanks to that, I think we can be together again as another relationship, not a complete end or finish.
Q: Do you like happy endings?
🐶: Well-shot scenes remain in the brain as if they actually became my memories. Rather than a tightly closed ending without room for other interpretations, I think I like an ending where it feels like the main characters will still be living well somewhere even after the story ends. Then, as an actress who acted, it doesn't feel empty after it ends and remains as a warm memory.
Q: What kind of person do you think you yourself are right now?
🐶: I think I am a person who wants to be passionate all my life, and wants to be pure. Of course, what kind of person I actually am is important, but effort like not wanting to lose this also seem to explain the person that is me. When acting, I try to spend it enjoyably, as if soaked in a dream with a good mood.
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260923 Marie Claire Korea magazine interview with #KIMSEJEONG Eng trans Part 3
Q: This year, you opened the door with the 10th anniversary fan meeting and I.O.I activities, and are preparing a new drama at a new agency. If a new wave comes, do you willingly want to entrust your body again?
🐶: There are times when I fell deeply enough to wonder if I can break free, diving recklessly to find a way in the waves. I wonder if I am fully feeling everything and enjoying the wave this year. I am not a great skilled person, but at least I am a surfer who doesn't fall off the surfboard, you know? Should I say I feel like I became such a person? With this heart, I am going to try to greet my new sea.
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