![]() "They say fake it till you make it, and I really tried to do that," she says. And dancing to a K-pop song and things that I'm not used to doing really got me in my head a lot." Still, Kim got through it. "I have to be able to DJ and not make it look fake. I had to learn to DJ and to dance all for that one episode," she says, admitting that adding singing and dancing to the acting process definitely threw her off a bit. at Rubik where we throw this party for Minho Madness. Still, it didn't prepare her for the most "stressful" aspect of playing Yuri: her DJ-ing gig. That mindset, plus listening to the music she listened to in high school, did most of the work to capture her uber-cool character. "What did I think? What did revolve around in high school? A lot of it revolved around love for my friends and love for my crushes - love was a big part of it." "I just tried to think of me when I was in high school," she says. Although she and Yuri are totally different, the 30-year-old still drew on her own high school experience to get into the mind of her teenage character. In her first major television role, Kim managed to cement her character, Yuri - a sophomore at Korean Independent School of Seoul (KISS) using Kitty's first love, Dae, as a cover to hide that she's gay from her wealthy, image-obsessed parents - as one of the show's standouts. It's probably safe to say that, as a college student, she didn't foresee herself playing a 16-year-old high school student in a hit Netflix series 10 years later - and certainly not alongside her real-life younger brother, Sang Heon Lee. and telling stories that need to be told," Kim tells POPSUGAR about what led her to pursue journalism at the University of Hong Kong before she made the switch to acting - her true passion. using movies or just pictures in general. Gia Kim was used to "lights, camera, action" long before her big break as an actor in Netflix's "XO, Kitty." "I always loved.
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