“I didn’t have any expectations of winning this award in my wildest dreams,” says the cheerful Lee Yoo Mi as she became the first Korean actor to win the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a drama series for Netflix’s mega-popular survivor series Squid Game earlier this month.
Speaking To The Hindu Weekend on her big win, the 28-year-old actor confesses she was too stunned to react when her name was announced. “I really didn’t know what to say and how to react. What I felt was raw happiness.”
