I took special care to prepare much earlier.
I read a few adaptations of the script and I was very calm.
For Korean actress Kim Tae Ri, 26, that dream has come true.
Besides reading for an acclaimed director, her part required her to be filmed in the nude, in lesbian love scenes with her co-star Kim Min Hee.
She is one of a pair of pivotal women leads in the sexually frank romantic thriller The Handmaiden, written and directed by the multi- award-winning Park Chan Wook, maker of Joint Security Area 2000 and Oldboy 2003.
The Handmaiden was competing for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes International Film Festival in May.