Chapter 68 – Extra Shooting Ⅰ③
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When I became serious about acting, I started receiving lessons from my older sister.
But a problem arose.
“But I’ve never acted before…”
“······Ah.”
My older sister also had no experience in acting.
I forgot for a moment because I was thinking about getting revenge on that actor through acting, but my older sister was a model, not an actor.
While wondering what to do about an unexpected problem, an idea occurred to me.
“Nuh… Unni. Then, tell me that.”
“What?”
“That… Feeling.”
“Emotions?”
“Yeah. Should I say it’s a way to control emotions? Anyway, that’s it!”
In any case, in order to act, the first priority was to capture emotions.
In that sense, if you look at my older sister’s job as a model, isn’t it the same as standing in front of the camera?
A model who stands in front of the camera and makes facial expressions or gestures according to the concept.
So I asked.
Please tell me how to control my emotions instead of acting.
Once I caught my emotions, I was able to get rid of the awkward parts while acting.
If you were to play the role of an assassin without immersing yourself in the role, there would be nothing more unnatural than that.
“Well… First, I just need to think that I have to be that person.”
“Should it be?”
“Yes. For example… Seohyun, your role is an assassin trying to poison the crown prince, right?”
“Yeah, right?”
“Then, ‘I’ control my emotions by thinking that I was an ‘assassin’, which was my original role.”
Ummmm… So… Are you saying I should act like I was an assassin from the beginning…?
I guess you should think that I was originally an assassin.
Not Seohyun Lee, who was born in Korea, but an assassin born during the Joseon Dynasty. An assassin trying to poison a country’s crown prince.
However···. How are you supposed to act with that?
I still didn’t understand, so I tilted my head.
My sister, who saw me like that, suggested a different way to me.
“If you don’t know, think differently.”
“Differently?”
“I actually feel like I want to kill that person a lot. I think of him as my enemy who killed my parents.”
The enemy who killed my parents…, La…
I don’t know that, but I know this one thing. The desire to somehow control the main actor who had been fighting with her since their first meeting was like a chimney.
Does that mean I can start acting with just that?
Okay, I understand.
* * *
After the actor disappeared, I received a quick lecture from my older sister before filming began.
How to capture emotions and become immersed in them, and how to achieve unity with the other person.
While I was receiving the quick lecture, time passed, and I was now standing alone in front of numerous cameras.
There was a camera in front of me, and many people were looking at me as if they were expecting my performance, but I wasn’t particularly nervous.
‘That bastard… I will take revenge…’
On the contrary, as I thought about killing the main actor by poisoning him, I naturally got emotional, and it was a good situation.
The scene I was going to film this time was a scene where I pretended to be a court lady and secretly entered the crown prince’s residence and poisoned her car.
“Let’s start filming!”
The director announced the start of filming, and soon after, the sound of the camera rolling was heard.
And of course, the person the camera focused on was me.
“Standby! Cue!”
I moved as soon as the director gave the signal to start filming.
* * *
It was a dark night with nothing to see around, so quiet that no sound could be heard.
And there was one person who moved during those quiet times: me, dressed as a court lady.
Dressed in a court lady’s outfit, I was moving through the quiet palace and walking towards the crown prince’s living quarters.
A quick movement without any sound, it was not a skill that an ordinary court lady could imitate.
It was truly a movement similar to that of an assassin.
I arrived at the crown prince’s residence with quick yet secretive movements.
Clinging to the wall of the living quarters, I slowly pushed the window open and carefully opened it, then quickly jumped over the window frame and entered the living room.
There was no one inside the shelter, which was natural.
While living undercover as a court lady, she obtained information that the crown prince was not present at this time.
After going inside, I looked around and found a pottery that looked like the one the crown prince used to drink tea, and walked over to it.
When I arrived in front of the pottery, I took out the poison I had kept in my arms.
Naturally, I took out the poison and started putting it on the pottery.
It was a time when I was trying to put the pottery back in place after applying poison with skill.
“The rat has gone into hiding.”
“······!”
As soon as I heard a voice right behind me, a knife was thrust into the side of my neck.
The cool, cold feel of the blade was enough to make me feel threatened.
‘If you move, you die.’
However, even if you don’t move, you die.
I was thinking about what to do with a knife at my throat, when I heard a voice once more.
“I’ll give you 3 seconds, turn around.”
A cold and cold voice.
It was an eerie voice that made you feel like your head would fall off at any moment if you didn’t do as he told you.
I looked back in a cold sweat and saw.
A person who should not exist.
‘King… Crown Prince…’
There was the crown prince, the target of my assassination request.
When I faced the crown prince, I expressed embarrassment.
It was clearly after receiving information that it was not available at this time, so what happened?
“Is he an assassin?”
The crown prince asked as if he was curious.
I stayed silent because I had no reason to answer, but when I received the Crown Prince’s gaze threatening to kill me immediately if I didn’t answer, I had no choice but to open my mouth.
“No, my lord. I’m just a court lady…, Ugh…”
“Don’t talk nonsense. I already know he’s an assassin.”
“······.”
I felt the crown prince’s sword moving around my neck.
“If you tell lies from now on, you will die.”
“······.”
“Answer me. Are you an assassin?”
“······Yes.”
“I guess the use of an honorific was a mask.”
“······.”
“Where did you send it?”
“······.”
I cannot reveal the name of the client, so I chose to remain silent.
When the crown prince saw that I was not responding, he strengthened his sword.
But still, I will not reveal the name of the client.
The poison hidden behind the molars was an extreme poison that caused death as soon as bitten.
I moved my tongue to bite the poison.
“Wow!”
Suddenly, the king’s disciple stretched out his hand and put it into my mouth, preventing me from chewing the poison.
The crown prince took the poison out of my mouth and lifted my chin with his other hand.
“Were you planning on committing suicide in front of me?”
“······.”
If you fail your mission, it is natural to lose your life.
That’s why he tried to die by chewing and swallowing poison, but he was stopped by the crown prince.
With no way to die through poison, and the thought of not knowing what would happen to the crown prince in the future, I looked at the crown prince with the vain thought that I was going to die soon.
At that time.
“Okay! Cut!”
The director’s OK sign rang out.
* * *
“Whoa…”
Acting is harder than you think, but it’s also a lot more fun.
It felt like I was possessed by an assassin from the Joseon Dynasty, and had the experience of becoming the assassin and myself becoming the assassin.
And even that person named Cho Jin-seong… Is quite good at acting.
While I was sorting out the emotions I felt while playing the role of an assassin, the crown prince… No, the main character actor Jin-seong Jo approached me and spoke to me in a low voice that only I could hear.
“You’re good, but something’s disappointing. Let’s fight a little more, little girl.”
After saying that, he quickly disappeared somewhere, but I couldn’t chase him.
As soon as the acting was over, people came up to me, starting with the director.
But since a while ago, they keep calling me a little girl…
Take back what I said about acting well.
“As expected, the person the CEO sent is different! I think I can already see the viewer ratings, haha!!”
“Ahaha…”
I smiled awkwardly at the praise for my acting.
Actually, I’m not sure if I was that good at acting.
I just immersed myself in acting with the feeling of getting revenge on Cho Jin-seong, just as I learned from my older sister.
Moreover, as soon as the performance was over, Jo Jin-seong came up to me, said something he was disappointed about, and left.
* * *
After resting for a bit, I entered the palace again to take pictures.
The scene to be filmed this time was a bit special, and there could have been situations where I might have to use a sword.
Don’t all men have a romance with the sword?
So, I looked at the sword with a little excitement, and the sword was not the long sword the crown prince was holding earlier, but a short dagger.
I also wanted to use a long sword, but I gave up because I thought it was strange for an assassin wearing a court lady’s outfit to carry a long sword.
And the dagger was good for hiding by slipping into the width of the skirt.
However, in this scene, I didn’t think I would really use the sword unless there was a situation where I might have to use it.
Normally, if we were going to use swords, we would at least practice swords against each other before starting, but I didn’t do that and just filmed the scene right away.
Jo Jin-seong returned before I knew it and held the knife to my neck in the same position as before.
It seemed like Jo Jin-seong was filming several scenes while I was resting, but he didn’t look like he was struggling at all.
After all, professional actors are different.
I looked at Jo Jin-seong, feeling the cold touch of the dagger hidden within the width of my skirt.
I started to get emotional with the thought of hitting at least once with this sword.
“Standby, cue!”
The director’s starting signal was heard.