Yim SiWan In "Unlocked" - Portrait Of A Villain

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There are always actors in every generation who transform the scene, deconstruct and redefine it, ushering in a new era of creative expression. From Bae YoungJoon and Choi MinSik to Song KangHo,ย Kim HyeSoo, and more recently, Lee MinHo, to name a few, the K-Drama industry boasts some of the most incredible talents in the world. As we step into a new generation, luckily, we seem to have found one of our very own legends in the making - ZE:A's Yim SiWan. An actor who can make our hearts flutter and our stomachs sink to the floor, SiWan is a powerhouse of talent who is steadily and surely exploring the endless depths of his genius to bring some of the most potent, revolutionary, and impactful works in modern film and television to our screens. In this article, we're analyzing his role in the Netflix film "Unlocked" to understand how the actor paints the most haunting portrait of a villain so effortlessly.

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T/W: Violence, Stalking, Murder, Drowning

Yim SiWan plays Oh JunYeong in "Unlocked" - a psychopathic killer with a god complex. However, this isn't the first or only time he has taken on the challenge of an antagonistic role. As a matter of fact, he is one of the select few actors who can essay such questionable and downright evil characters with just as much perfection as he does a romantic comedy. You might remember him from "Run On" and "Summer Strike" as the dreamiest soft boy male lead ever, but some of his most groundbreaking roles were in "Strangers From Hell" and "Emergency Declaration", where the former saw him as a morally ambiguous anti-hero and the