Trivia / The Handmaiden

• Approval of God: Sarah Waters, who wrote the original Fingersmith, liked the script.
• Fake Nationality: Japanese heiress Hideko is played by South Korean actress Kim Min-hee.
• Promoted Fangirl: Kim Tae-ri has been a fan of Kim Min-hee even before she began working in film. One can imagine her glee when she got to work with her favorite actress. Park was delighted upon learning this.
• Throw It In!:
  • The hand-clasping between the two actresses wasn't in the script. Both of them were exhausted but appreciated each other's efforts to do the love scene that Kim Min-hee encouraged her younger co-star by helping her finish it.
  • Lady Hideko's last monologue in Part 2 was supposed to be in Japanese, but Kim Min-hee ended up saying it in Korean. The crew asked her to re-do it but she refused, implying that it would lessen the gravitas of the scene.
  • Sook-hee shaking her hand off in disgust after Fujiwara rubs it in his crotch was unscripted. Park liked it so much that he kept it.