When Bong Joon-ho went on the
Jimmy Fallon show, the Parasite director’s interpreter made viewers swoon – casting a light on the people who speak English for the likes of Michael Haneke and Park Chan-wook
Just when you thought Bong Joon-ho – the affable maestro of Korean cinema and now, with his class-conscious Cannes winner Parasite, champion of the people – could not get any more lovable, they let him on Jimmy Fallon. Foreign-language arthouse directors rarely, if ever, make it on to US talkshows; this was apparently the first ever
Tonight Show interview conducted through an interpreter. With the director cheekily refusing to play ball at points, including breaking down what the film was actually about (“This is a talkshow – you have to say something!” Fallon chided him), the limelight improbably fell on the woman next to him: Sharon Choi.