All The Times BLACKPINK's Jennie Kim Was Our 'Idol'

When The Idol premiered June 4, audiences clamored to find retired just how overmuch enactment and debauchery the caller play from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson would beryllium capable to cram into 54 minutes.

But they came distant chiefly talking astir Jennie Ruby Jane. 

The 27-year-old, who you already cognize arsenic Jennie from K-pop radical Blackpink, plays Dyanne, backup dancer to Lily-Rose Depp's unraveling popular star, Jocelyn. And, conscionable similar thing retired of a movie (or prestige TV), supporting subordinate Jennie went and stole the show.

"I didn't person a batch of clip to larn the choreo for the creation scenes," she shared successful a behind-the-scenes featurette for MAX. "Thankfully, I bash this each the time, truthful it came people to me."

Why does Blackpink regularisation the world?

"Perseverance and determination" were the keys to being a popular star, Jenny told MAX, and comfortableness is key—she brings her ain pillow everywhere.

Born Jennie Kim, she signed with K-pop behemoth YG Entertainment in 2010 and has been a subordinate of the ragingly palmy Blackpink since their enactment successful 2016. A skilled rapper, she was the archetypal of the clump to spell solo—with, fittingly, her 2018 track "Solo."

"Hip-hop means thing antithetic to everyone," she told Rolling Stone last year. "To me, it's the tone of cool—vibes, swag, immoderate words you tin use."

Blackpink—made up of Jennie, Jisoo (Kim Ji-soo), Rosé (Roseanne Park) and Lisa (Lalisa Manobal)—is the highest-charting pistillate Korean radical successful the U.S. and they had a No. 1 medium with 2022's Born Pink, the best-selling medium by a pistillate enactment successful South Korea, ever. 

Hence Jennie being acceptable for immoderate choreo The Idol throws astatine her.

They besides made past successful 2019 erstwhile they became the first-ever pistillate K-pop enactment to execute astatine Coachella, and they returned to the festival this year.

And, let's conscionable say... Blackpink's six videos with much than a cardinal views connected YouTube is much than The Weeknd's five.

But the ladies themselves person conscionable been trying to bask the moment.

"More than anyone, we privation to beryllium mean girls," Jennie said. "Sure, determination are times erstwhile we speech astir what benignant of power we could have. But what we really emotion is talking astir our cats, dogs, bully food, and beauteous places."

Did Jennie Ruby Jane ever act before The Idol?

Jennie's been successful oodles of euphony videos and has spent a steadfast information of the past 7 years successful beforehand of rolling cameras, but The Idol marks her acting debut. (As good arsenic the debut of her existent signifier name.)

And "this is conscionable the beginning," she told MAX—a spot coyly, but obviously she speaks the truth.

She's "so lucky" to beryllium moving with a "superstar" similar Lily-Rose, who she's known for a agelong time. But the whole Idol squad should beryllium saying the aforesaid happening astir her.

How is Jennie Ruby Jane making her people successful the manner world?

While determination are going to beryllium countless fans clamoring for Dyanna's achromatic short-shorts, grey harvest apical and kneepads now, there's different mode to instrumentality a leafage from Jennie's benignant book: Last period she released her archetypal capsule postulation for Calvin Klein, the marque she's served arsenic a planetary ambassador for since 2021. (She's besides a look of Chanel and eyewear marque Gentle Monster.)

"The pieces are precise iconic and are elemental items," she told Vice's i-D in May, "so you tin premix and lucifer immoderate items you person successful your closet. You tin lucifer a babe t-shirt with different jeans oregon skirts, oregon brace a denim overgarment with different dresses you have."

Does Jennie Ruby Jane aspire to beryllium a solo idol?

While these thin to beryllium celebrated past words for a subordinate of a beloved philharmonic group, Jennie said that she volition ever consciousness similar a portion of Blackpink nary substance what.

"Even if we're 70 and we person antithetic lives, I'll inactive consciousness similar I'm Blackpink," she said. "As corny arsenic it sounds, I don't deliberation Blackpink volition ever extremity successful my heart. It's a portion of my family. You can't contradict your family."

But arsenic acold arsenic her infinite imaginable arsenic an creator goes, she said, "The Jennie you've seen truthful acold has been practice."

New episodes of The Idol premiere Sundays connected HBO and MAX.