Jiyeon's blankness is a lid pressing down (hoisted from the comments)

Hoisted from the comments 2013-10-21; petronia writes:

Of the T-aras, Jiyeon interests me the most. She's one of those women who have never looked like an innocent young girl. I mean, Eunjung could be a terrible person for all I know, but Eunjung not smiling won't unnerve anyone: she parts her lips slightly and you know she's Snow White lost in the woods. Jiyeon's blankness reads as a lid pressing down on some simmering, potentially explosive unpleasantness — psychopathy, rage, hurt, who knows.

Jiyeon uses this quality very well when acting; like Natalie Dormer, she's born to play Anne Boleyns and Irene Adlers. She only needs a couple of seconds in this video to be vividly, genuinely scary, smiling unhinged through the flames. But also like Natalie Dormer, this villainess quality of hers is a by-product of the face she was born with, rather than an act per se. I think it's simply very easy for people to cast her as the villain in real life as well.

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