Jennie is an international superstar. The K-pop idol, who is a member of the girl band BLACKPINK, will make her acting debut in the upcoming HBO series The Idol.
“It’s overwhelming, but I’m grateful and thankful. All of those things at the same time,” she said in a cover story with WWD. “Especially as it’s the first step in my acting career, I was honored to be able to come.”
She attended her first Cannes Film Festival where she stated that she admired Idol co-creator Sam Levinson “for a very long time.” She said that he took the subject matter very seriously.
“I trusted Sam to be collaborative with all the scenes that we would be working on together, because it was about the industry. The fact that it was about the music industry fascinated me and I thought I could bring something to the role,” she said. “It was an opportunity to just be myself and be brave. I didn’t really train for it, or prep anything. Sam wanted me to just be myself.”
Jennie believes that being on camera for film and television is extremely different than being in music videos. “It definitely was a challenge, because I’ve never experienced anything like that before,” she said. “It was like, breaking a wall for me.”
The Idol cast also includes Lily-Rose Depp, The Weeknd, Troye Sivan, Rachel Sennott, Dan Levy and more. The show will premiere on MAX June 4.