How A Famous K-Actress’ Humiliating NSFW Bathhouse Scene Became A Pivotal Moment For Her

Actress Ra Mi Ran recently recalled being vulnerable while filming her first movie as an actress. What was a humiliating and disheartening moment for the rookie actress at first ended up helping her.

Actress Ra Mi Ran | @ramirani668/Instagram

On the second season of comedian Jang Do Yeon‘s talk show Salon Drip, Ra Mi Ran appeared as a guest alongside her co-star Uhm Ji Won for their new K-Drama Cold Blooded Intern.

Ra Mi Ran (left) and Uhm Ji Won (right) in the poster for “Cold Blooded Intern” | TVING

When Jang Do Yeon asked them if they remembered which role they played in their debut production, Ra Mi Ran recalled the famous Korean movie Lady Vengeance from 2005. Lady Vengeance tells the story of a woman wrongly accused of murder searching for revenge after spending thirteen years in prison.

Movie poster for “Lady Vengeance” | CJ Entertainment

Ra Mi Ran played the character Oh Soo Hee, a woman who enters the women’s prison while the protagonist, Lee Geum Ja, also serves her time. Despite this being her first acting role, Ra Mi Ran had to deal with the challenges of playing this character because it was a role that had some uncomfortable scenes.

Your browser does not support video.Ra Mi Ran playing Oh Soo Hee in “Lady Vengeance” | CJ Entertainment 

Oh Su Hee was a character who was bullied and sexually assaulted by a fellow prisoner nicknamed “Witch,” who went to jail for murdering her husband and then grilling and eating his body.

In the first scene Ra Mi Ran ever filmed as an actress, she had to undress and film a scene in a bath with the “Witch.” When the director yelled, “Cut!” she couldn’t come out of the water because she was exposed.

While filming Lady Vengeance, it was my first time filming a movie and I didn’t know anybody. But my first scene was the bathhouse scene. I had no clothes on and normally when the director yelled, ‘Cut!’ all the staff members ran to the actors to cover them up because their bodies were exposed. But no one came to me. I couldn’t even get up from the water.

— Ra Mi Ran

Your browser does not support video.Oh Su Hee is bullied and assaulted by the “Witch.” | CJ Entertainment 

Thanks to the makeup team manager who said, ‘Bring her a blanket,‘ she was able to come out of the water. However, Ra Mi Ran recalled feeling so sad and lonely—but this emotion worked to her advantage when the next scene required crying.

But I felt so sad. So I was crying like this, then the next scene was where I looked at Geum Ja while crying. With that sadness already in me, I turned around, and I was already sobbing.

— Ra Mi Ran

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Because of this, the production team was amazed at her acting skills. Looking back, she realized this unplanned setup helped her have an amazing shoot without nerves getting in the way.

If I had tried to bring [the emotions] out forcibly, I might not have been able to do it because of the pressure and it being my first shoot. But since the situation was perfectly set up like that, I was really grateful.

— Ra Mi Ran

Jang Do Yeon, Ra Mi Ran, and Uhm Ji Won (left to right) | TEO/YouTube

Ra Mi Ran said that even Park Chan Wook, the director of Lady Vengeance and Oldboy, praised her acting skills after this scene.

Since her film debut with Lady Vengeance, Ra Mi Ran has continued to prove her incredible acting skills and is now considered one of the best actresses in Korea. In 2012, she was praised for her role in the film Dancing Queen and was called a “scene-stealer” in the hit K-Drama Reply 1988 in 2015. She also showed her musical talents and humorous personality through the reality show Sister’s Slam Dunk, where she was in a temporary girl group called Unnies with Jessi, Tiffany, Min Hyo Rin, Kim Sook, and Hong Jin Kyung.

Tiffany, Kim Sook, Hong Jin Kyung, Min Hyo Rin, Ra Mi Ran, and Jessi (left to right) | LOEN Entertainment

More recently, Ra Mi Ran starred in The Good Bad Mother as actor Lee Do Hyun‘s pig-farmer mother.