Jeon Do-yeon Earns Praise for Possible Love

Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, now streaming on Netflix, has drawn international acclaim since its Venice premiere, with viewers and critics touting Jeon Do-yeon’s performance as a potential awards contender. Jeon plays Mi-ok, a factory worker’s wife who tries to protect her family while carrying anxieties beneath her outwardly positive demeanor; she says the role helped ease her doubts about her future as an actor, while stressing that an Oscar nomination remains far from certain. The drama brings Mi-ok’s working-class family together with a wealthy couple, including documentary filmmaker Ye-ji, whose project about economic hardship raises questions about the boundary between empathy and exploitation and how being filmed can shape people’s behavior. Jeon has described a long, evolving connection to the story and a more collaborative approach to working with Lee, while Cho Yeo-jeong has said she is eager to see how audiences worldwide respond to the film.