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BLACKPINK: Light Up The Sky director Caroline Suh praises K-Pop group’s ‘agency in their own lives’ after intimate Netflix documentary

NEWSSPORT  BLACKPINK: Light Up The Sky director Caroline Suh praises K-Pop group’s ‘agency in their own lives’ after intimate Netflix documentary Comment BLACKPINK (l-r): Jisoo, Rosé, Jennie and Lisa (Picture: Netflix) Share this article via facebookShare this article via twitter 20 SHARES Sarah Deen Friday 16 Oct 2020 4:02 pm Director Caroline Suh was ‘surprised’ at how much ‘agency’ BLACKPINK have over their careers when she got to know them for Netflix documentary Light Up The Sky. The filmmaker spent time with the K-Pop sensations – Jennie, Rose, Lisa and Jisoo – both in 2019 and February this year, charting their rise from trainees at YG Entertainment to the superstars they are today. Asked if she found out anything unexpected about the idols, who released a new album on October 6, she said she found them to be ‘very thoughtful’. She told Metro.co.uk: ‘I found a lot to be surprising, because I think we don’t often hear them speak at length. There might be a tendency to see them in a one-dimensional way.

Adding that BLACKPINK are ‘professionals’ Caroline, who has also directed Salt Fat Acid Heat, noted they are also ‘girly and young and wide eyed at the same time’. She went on to explain that the Lovesick Girls singers’ management at YG ‘really stepped back’ and gave her complete creative control, often instructing her to ‘defer to the members’ to answer questions. The director puts it down to ‘a level of trust’ between her team and theirs

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