Meet viral Olympics shooter, who was praised by Elon Musk and now bags movie role with Anushka Sen as an…
This silver-medal winning shooter had gone viral on social media platforms with her 'Terminator-like' looks and 'ultra cool' demeanour at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Paris Olympics 2024 threw up a wide range of social media sensations from Turkey’s Yusuf Dikec to ‘Clark Kent’ lookalike gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik. Thought to be one of those viral social media sensation from Paris last month became South Korea pistol shooter Kim Yeji – who went viral as one in the total ‘coolest’ shooters at some point of this year’s Olympics.
The 32-year-old shooter took silver right at some point of the girls’s 10m air pistol in July and ‘uber cool’ and ultra-calm demeanour, combined together with her wire-rimmed shooting glasses and baseball cap, turned her into an cyber web sensation. With videos of Kim soon going viral, she drew praise even from owner of social media ‘X’ platform and billionaire Elon Musk.
“She must be cast in an action movie. No acting required!” Musk wrote on his social media platform X at the time.
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Barely a month after the Paris Olympics 2024, Kim Yeji is in a position to play an an assassin in ‘Crush’, a by-product short-form series of the worldwide film project ‘Asia’, a spokesperson for Seoul-based entertainment firm Asia Lab told AFP news agency.
Kim will big name alongside Indian actress and influencer Anushka Sen, the company said in a separate statement, saying it became excited to witness ‘the prospective synergy that will arise from Kim Yeji and Anushka Sen’s new transformation right into a killer duo’.
Since winning silver, a short clip showing Kim at the Baku World Cup in May has long gone viral. Kim signed with a South Korean talent agency in August to assist her in managing her extracurricular activities and he or she has since been featured in a magazine photoshoot for Louis Vuitton.
Who's Kim Yeji?
Kim became born in Danyang in South Korea and started shooting right at some point of the sixth grade in class and turned out for her first ISSF World Shooting Championships in 2010 – some 14 years back, when she became just 18 years of age.
She achieved the arena record right at some point of the 25m women folk air pistol event earlier than winning the silver medal right at some point of the 10m event at the Paris Olympics 2024. Kim also won the gold medal right at some point of the ISSF Shooting World Cup 2024 in Baku right at some point of the girls’s 25m air pistol event.
Greater than a couple of of people across the arena have dubbed her as the female ‘Terminator’ after thin-rimmed glasses and her backward caps videos went viral.
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