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IU has always been careful to expand her boundaries. In her position, she could have chosen a prettier role, a lighter and more fun story, and more cheers, but she chose ['When Life Gives You Tangerines'], a difficult story from a distant era and a distant land, with a densely layered narrative. And this time, her choice was right.

The Netflix series ['When Life Gives You Tangerines'] is a story about one woman's life and the intersection of two generations' lives. At the center of this narrative is actress IU. She plays two roles in the play, Ae-soon and Geum-myeong. These two are not simply different characters, but are connected by blood as mother and daughter. In other words, IU lives the life of one character and then exists again as that character's child.

IU has always been careful to expand her boundaries. In her position, she could have chosen a prettier role, a lighter and more fun story, and more cheers, but she chose ['When Life Gives You Tangerines'], a difficult story from a distant era and a distant land, with a densely layered narrative. And this time, her choice was right.

The Netflix series ['When Life Gives You Tangerines'] is a story about one woman's life and the intersection of two generations' lives. At the center of this narrative is actress IU. She plays two roles in the play, Ae-soon and Geum-myeong. These two are not simply different characters, but are connected by blood as mother and daughter. In other words, IU lives the life of one character and then exists again as that character's child.

IU's emotional acting peaks in the scene where she encounters Bu-yong (Kang Myung-joo), the mother of Yeong-beom (Lee Jun-young), and the lover Geum-myung wants to marry. It is the part where Geum-myung tells Bu-yong, who looks down on her parents, "I'm not ashamed of my father's hand." Although it is a short line, it contains self-esteem, fear, and inner wounds. IU precisely designs and acts out the psychological flow until she utters that one line. Then, when she bursts out in emotion to Yeong-beom, saying, "How can I get married like this? My mom and dad are crying," it is read as not simply a failure of love, but as the loss of the external appearance of family love that Geum-myung has tightly embraced. And that collapse is thoroughly Geum-myung's, but at the same time, it is connected to Ae-soon's past.

What is noteworthy in this work is that IU has challenged herself as a mother for the first time. The Ae-soon she plays is a character who loses her will to live because of her child, and then regains her will to live thanks to her child. IU passionately expresses the multifacetedness of Ae-soon. The self-reproach that is suppressed and suppressed, the regret and longing that are seen in a single glance, are beautifully displayed on IU's face. Geum-myeong is the daughter who tries to live her own life, stepping on the shadow of Ae-soon. If Ae-soon closes her dreams to endure the world, Geum-myeong closes her heart to live in the world. In this flow, IU was not in a hurry to differentiate the two characters. Rather, she acted by weaving the common emotions flowing between them into one knot.

['When Life Gives You Tangerines'] goes through a woman's life and shows how one generation's life is transferred to another. IU lived through the time of a family at the center of it. And that time is not a character, but a human being, and it touches you with the weight of life. What connects the two characters is not makeup or style, but sincerity of emotion, and IU holds on to that sincerity tightly and does not waver. This work shows that IU can no longer be defined by her previous image as an actress. She now acts in her own language and persuades the character with her own emotions. Not with songs or spotlights, but in the quietest and most sincere way. IU has once again expanded her boundaries, and that expansion will remain a clearer achievement than ever.

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