Netflix The Recruit star Teo Yoo’s life including role in ‘the most heart-breaking film'
Netflix The Recruit star Teo Yoo’s life including role in ‘the most heart-breaking film'
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Netflix has sprung back into action with a brand-new season of The Recruit. The spy series first hit screens in December 2022 and saw Noah Centineo, known for the To All The Boys I've Loved Before franchise, step into the shoes of Owen Hendricks. While the first instalment starred the actor as a bumbling CIA lawyer fending off spies across Europe, season two sees him heading to South Korea for a new assignment.
Joining him for the journey is BAFTA-nominated actor Teo Yoo, who portrays new character Jang Kyun. As fans prepare to binge-watch the new episodes, here's an insight into the Korean actor's life off-screen. Born in Cologne, Germany, in April 1981, Yoo's mother worked as a nurse and his father was a miner. The actor's family moved from South Korea in the seventies.
Opening up about his upbringing, he told The Hollywood Reporter: "I grew up in a Korean community in Germany — we were there through a labour agreement between the countries, and our dads worked in the coal mines or [in construction] building up the post-war Germany in the ’70s. All our mothers were nurses.
"I saw Chungking Express on German television, and it was the first time I felt a kind of melancholy and feeling out of place.". Released in 1994, Chungking Express is considered one of the defining works of Korean cinema. Although the film struck Yoo when he was young, he did not have aspirations of pursuing acting until his early twenties.
