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How ‘Sleep’ Director’s Mentor, Bong Joon-Ho, Gave Him the Confidence to Pull Off a Wild Blend of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Erin Brockovich’
Jason Yu's feature debut, "Sleep," is a supernatural domestic thriller about a South Korean couple torn apart by his dark sleepwalking habits.
Jason Yu’s feature debut, “ Sleep,” is a supernatural domestic thriller about a South Korean couple named Soo-jin and Hyeon-soo (Jung Yu-mi and Lee Sun-kyun) who are torn apart by his increasingly dark sleepwalking habits. Just the basic premise of “Sleep” — the pregnant wife, the husband character and their relationship inside the single-location building — was greatly influenced by “Rosemary’s Baby.” I suggested to my two actors, “Maybe you guys could go on an ice cream break or have dinners or go for walks in the park just to cultivate this chemistry.” But they cut me off immediately saying it was unnecessary because they already starred in four films where they were romantic interests, and they were great friends in real life, so they already had the chemistry down.
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