She is actually gorgeous with very fake painted freckles and a frizzy hairdo to provide a pretense of ugliness. She is supposed to be ugly, but it's a comedy, and the fact that she really looks like a model made up like a clown, or Little Orphan Annie, is part of the fun. Beyond that, though, she is able to mix up completely straight acting, heart-warming and genuine, with outrageous clowning and make it work. Funnier to me than Lucille Ball, in the same class as Madeline Kahn or Claudette Colbert.
Her physical comedy and her mugging is inspired. Where Jerry Lewis' neurotic character makes me cringe with discomfort for his pain rather than laugh, Hwang's neurotic character while panic-stricken and shaking with fear nevertheless comes across as being strong in spite of that. Her physical comedy is of the same type as Jerry Lewis, but it works better for me. Jeong-eum Hwang is a gifted comedian as well as actor.
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