By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi
SEOUL (Reuters) -Lee Solar-kyun, an actor in South Korea’s Oscar-winning movie “Parasite”, was discovered useless on Wednesday by authorities following up a report that he had gone lacking, a hearth official within the capital mentioned.
Lee, 48, who performed the top of a rich family within the movie, had confronted investigation over accusations of unlawful drug use amid a authorities crackdown wherein police questioned him 3 times, with one session working 19 hours over the weekend.
The actor had mentioned he was tricked into taking medicine by a bar hostess making an attempt to blackmail him, the Yonhap information company reported.
Authorities discovered Lee in a search triggered by the report that he was lacking, the fireplace official informed Reuters on situation of anonymity, because the matter is a delicate one.
Earlier, citing police, Yonhap mentioned Lee was present in a automobile at a park in Seoul, after his supervisor informed police the actor had left residence, leaving an obvious suicide notice.
Officers at Seoul’s Jongno and Seongbuk police stations didn’t instantly reply to phone calls from Reuters to hunt remark.
Lee’s company, HODU&U Leisure, additionally didn’t reply to calls.
Infringements of South Korea’s powerful drug legal guidelines can result in six months in jail, or as much as 14 years for repeat offenders and sellers.
A 2019 dark-comedy thriller directed by Bong Joon-ho, “Parasite” received the Academy Award in February 2020 within the 4 classes of finest image, finest director, finest authentic screenplay and finest worldwide characteristic movie.
It had acquired six Oscar nominations.
Within the movie, Lee acted as Mr. Park, whose prosperous house is infiltrated by members of a lower-class household posing as extremely certified home staff in a tangled scheme that results in a gory finish.
Lee, born in 1975, had main roles in South Korean movies such because the 2012 thriller “Helpless” and 2014’s “All About My Spouse”.
He performed the lead in Apple TV+’s first Korean-language authentic collection, which rolled out in 2021.
A six-episode sci-fi thriller, “Dr. Mind” unspooled the story of a cold-hearted neurologist, looking for clues to a mysterious household accident by way of mind experiments.
(Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi, Josh Smith, and Hyonhee Shin; Extra reporting by Minwoo Park and Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Writing by Josh Smith; Modifying by Clarence Fernandez)