Okja

Ahn Seo-hyun: ‘Okja’ Breakout on Acting With a CG Animal and Learning From Tilda Swinton

The 13-year-old star opens up about Bong Joon-ho’s on-set humor and playing a new type of character onscreen: “This is not a regular girl that people have seen before.” Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito and Lily Collins are among the starry cast of Okja, Bong Joon-ho’s dramedy about a six-ton “super piglet” […]

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Okja Star Ahn Seo-Hyun Carries Netflix’s Next Prestige Film on Her Smal

At the heart of Netflix’s latest big swing at prestige movies is an extremely precocious 13-year-old. Okja, the story of a girl named Mija palling around with a massive superpig in a whimsical mountain setting—a fantastical friendship in the vein of classics like My Neighbor Totoro—stars actress Ahn Seo-hyun in the main role. She’s a