Kim Ok-Bin’s Character Longs For More Power In ‘Arthdal Chronicles’

When nan play Arthdal Chronicles abruptly ended successful 2019, fans were near to wonderment what happened to nan characters they had grown to love. The extremity of nan saga’s first play saw aggregate factions fresh to conflict for power of nan mythical kingdom of Arth. But past nan Studio Dragon k-drama ended and fans had to hold 4 much years to find retired who won.

In nan 2nd play viewers study that Arthdal’s forces, led by Ta-gon, won that conflict positive galore consequent battles and that he’s continued to conquer neighboring lands. Kim Ok-bin again plays his queen, Tae Al-ha, a female moreover hungrier for powerfulness than she was successful nan first season. Eight years person elapsed for nan residents of Arth and Tae Al-ha now has a son, A-rok, whom she not only wants to protect, but will usage to summation power of Ta-gon’s kingdom.

“A-rok is nan astir valuable personification that keeps Tae Al-ha successful power,” said Kim. “She’s trying to make A-rok nan heir to Ta-gon and push Ta-gon retired of nan measurement truthful she tin person Arthdal. Whereas successful play 1 location was a young Tae Al-ha who leaned connected emotion and trusted people, successful play 2 she only trusts herself. She believes successful herself, and she does what she has to do to get what she wants.”

Tae Al-ha’s early does not look for illustration a privilege for Ta-gon, played again by Jang Dong-gun. He will apt take his adopted son, Lord Saya arsenic his successor.

“What Tae Al-ha has learned from a young property is that successful this world, if you’re anemic and powerless and you don’t want to beryllium trampled on, you person to emergence supra everyone other to survive,” said Kim. “That’s why Remus was trampled connected and that’s why her father, Mi-hol, tried to usage her arsenic a spy to wed San-ung, who stood astatine nan apical of Arthdal power. But Tae Al-ha had a soft spot for Ta-gon, and she wanted him to go nan leader of nan Arthdal Union, because she wanted nan 1 she loved to person nan astir powerfulness and she wanted to guidelines beside him.”

But past Ta-gon takes a White Mountain Tribe personnel arsenic his wife, and he tortures her begetter successful bid to bargain exertion from nan Hae Tribe.

“That’s erstwhile Tae Al-ha’s ambition explodes,” said Kim. “She wants to person Arthdal for herself, not conscionable trust connected personification else's bosom for power.”

Kim describes Tae Al-ha arsenic being for illustration “a soft fire.”

“From a young age, she had to transportation a dense load for her people’s survival, for their honor, to usage others, to beryllium a spy,” said Kim. “Even her somewhat crooked demeanor was seen arsenic a struggle to survive, and she was a pitiful and sympathetic character. She gave everything, moreover laying down her life for love, only to beryllium betrayed and recognize that her begetter was correct each along. I recovered her to beryllium a fascinating characteristic to watch arsenic she learned a awesome woody and became nan existent leader of nan Hae Tribe. I wanted to spot this Tae Al-ha I loved to nan extremity and fto her go.”

As overmuch arsenic she longed to decorativeness Tae Al-ha’s story, it took immoderate mentation to get backmost into character.

“I had to find each nan footage of maine acting and rewatch it because it’s difficult to consciousness and evoke Tae Al-ha again aft each these years,” said Kim. “I wanted to alteration nan majesty of nan queen and really she’s changed complete nan years, but I didn’t want nan consciousness of play 1 to change. Interestingly enough, nan costumes helped a lot, because erstwhile I put them on, it was often a spontaneous reminder of really I wanted her to feel.”

Because nan 2nd play took truthful agelong to materialize immoderate of nan original actors did not return to reprise their play 1 roles. Lee Joon-gi replaced Song Joong-ki, playing some Eun-seom and his copy Lord Saya. Kim Ji-won, who played Tan-ya, was replaced by Shin Se-kyung. The alteration successful formed seemed fitting to Kim.

“The young Eun-seom and Tan-ya person grown up to go nan main who listens to nan gods and Inaishingi who unites nan Ago Union,” said Kim. “When I first saw nan translator done Shin Se-kyung’s coagulated shape and Lee Joon-gi’s charisma, I felt it was awesome and appropriate. It was for illustration seeing a grown-up Eun-seom and Tan-ya that I hadn’t seen successful a agelong time.”

Kim had a deed play earlier successful nan twelvemonth pinch a very different benignant of story. She gave a memorable capacity arsenic a lawyer successful nan romcom Love To Hate You. In that communicative her no-nonsense characteristic pretends to day a k-drama actor, played by Yoo Teo. Kim’s erstwhile roles besides see nan dramas Children of a Lesser God, The Blade and nan Petal and Steal Heart and nan movie The Villainous.

The first play of Studio Dragon’s Arthdal Chronicles aired connected Netflix NFLX , but nan 2nd play airs connected Disney/Hulu. The play was screened internationally earlier airing connected Hulu successful nan U.S. connected Nov. 1.