KPop Demon Hunters' Audrey Nuna revealed the unexpected reason that the movie made her emotional — and it wasn’t because of the plot.
Nuna is a singer and rapper who did the singing for the movie's character Mira (though not the voice acting, which was done by May Hong). In an appearance on the Zach Sang Show, she reflected on one surprising way Netflix’s extremely popular new animated movie — that we have merch for in the Complex Shop — impacted her.
When asked by the podcast’s host how she felt after watching the movie for the first time, she gave a short but to-the-point response.
“I cried,” she admitted.
“I just want to say I do not cry that often," she continued. "But I was releasing fat tears at the Netflix screening.”
The aspect of the film that moved her the most was surprising: the food.
“This is weird, but what got me, what really got me, was seeing Korean food animated,” Nuna said. “I was like, this is the shit I used to hide as a kid going to school in second grade. This is a new era.”
KPop Demon Hunters has been a smash success of historic proportions for Netflix. Deadline reported on Aug. 27 that it has become the streamer’s most popular film of all time.
From Aug. 18 to Aug. 24, the film reportedly drew in another 25.4 million views, bringing its total view count since it premiered on June 20 to 236 million. The film has become so popular that the song “Golden” by the movie’s fictional group HUNTR/X hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
If a recent report from The Hollywood Reporter is any indicator, the KPop Demon Hunters story is far from over. The publication’s sources sat that Sony Pictures is in talks with Netflix to make a sequel to the film.