Chapter 70 – Extra Shooting Ⅰ⑤
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“Whoa…!!”
This time, I took a deep breath to gather my emotions.
Every time I finished acting, I took a deep breath, but this time it was somehow more difficult.
It wasn’t a very difficult act, but I don’t know why it was so difficult.
‘In times like this, it’s best to ask my sister.’
While I was thinking that, Jo Jin-seong, who was facing me, spoke up.
“It’s not bad.”
I thought he was going to start another argument all of a sudden, but surprisingly, he gave me a compliment and said something nonsensical and just walked away.
“···What is it?”
I am still a person who cannot be understood.
He’s still an annoying person.
Anyway, the filming ends here.
The filming wasn’t completely finished because they had to wait until they called me again.
So, I looked around, found where my sister was, and walked in that direction.
As I was approaching my sister, people who looked like staff spoke to me and gave me a thumbs up.
“Actor, please act well!!”
“Awesome! You empathized with that assassin, that was great acting!”
“You don’t even get nervous while acting with actor Cho Jin-seong… That’s amazing!”
Suddenly, compliments started pouring into my ears, and I was half embarrassed and half happy to hear compliments on my acting.
As I was acting with Jo Jin-seong, and I wasn’t sure if I was lacking or if I was good at it, I was a little glad to hear their praise.
‘No, maybe it’s a little too much to welcome?’
Jo Jin-seong would always pick a fight with me whenever I did something, and he would slowly eat away at my personality and then go off somewhere.
My relationship with Jo Jin-seong, which has been strained since their first meeting, is unlikely to be restored unless I approach.
“Ahaha… Thank you…!!”
I was still embarrassed that I had to react in some way to the staff who praised me, but I responded.
Then the staff blinked for a moment, then started muttering something among themselves.
“······Cute.”
“···Uh, it’s cute.”
“I admit it… It’s cute…”
I wondered what they were talking about when they suddenly got together…
‘I can hear everything…’
After hearing the staff’s words, I felt even more embarrassed and flushed.
I think my face is probably as bright red as blush.
I thought I had to get out of here quickly, so I quickly said goodbye and left.
The remaining staff talked as they watched Seohyun walking away with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Oh, my.”
“Wow. I guess I heard you.”
“Your blushing face is also cute.”
“That’s right. It’s cute.”
* * *
“What is it that suddenly becomes cute…”
When I was walking while muttering those words.
The manager and older sister seemed to have seen me approaching and were walking towards me.
“Who…!, ······Sister!”
“Are you going to keep saying that?”
My older sister, who came before the manager, scolded me and asked me what to call her.
I scratched my cheek and opened my mouth in a shy tone.
“Oh, no… I’m not used to it, what should I do…”
“Still. Now know that you are a woman.”
“Arasung…”
As I remained sullen, the manager who had just arrived behind my sister looked curious.
“There is something like that. Hong Gil-dong…”
“···Hong Gil-dong?”
The manager was standing blankly as if he didn’t understand what I was saying.
I said it was Hong Gil-dong, but isn’t it almost the same thing?
I can’t call my sister “Noona,” But she’s almost like Hong Gil-dong.
This was not the first time a conflict arose over the title issue.
But, I’ve called you sister all my life, but now if I suddenly ask you to call me sister, would that be okay?
Seol-ya was called by her original name, so it didn’t really matter, so she didn’t care about the title, but she had to change her title to women and men who were older than I.
For me, I found it difficult to adapt to the sudden change in title.
So, even though I tried to adapt, it was difficult because it didn’t work out.
“Oh, that’s right. Sister… I have something to ask you.”
“What is it?”
I started explaining to my sister what I felt after her performance.
My sister seemed to pause for a moment after hearing everything I said, but then she began to give me answers to my questions.
“I think that’s probably a mental problem.”
“······Mental?”
“It doesn’t mean you have a mental illness, so don’t make that face.”
“Ah, thank goodness.”
I also thought I was mentally ill.
You can guess what I’m thinking just by looking at my facial expression. It’s my sister, after all.
“Acting that uses your body is different from acting that uses up your mental power by continuously portraying the character.”
“······Is it something else?”
Acting is just acting, what is mental acting?
“Are you thinking that?”
“Uh, how are you doing!?”
I was embarrassed when my exact thoughts were revealed.
Then my sister nodded and said, as if she knew that.
“My simple little brother. You don’t think I don’t know what’s going on in this little head, do you?”
My sister said that and gently pushed my head with her index finger.
However···. It’s so small…
“Am I that small…?”
I wonder if I look that small even to my sister.
Jo Jin-seong also makes fun of me, calling me a little girl, and even my older sister calls me small.
Even though his height hasn’t changed much, he looks shorter… Otherwise, is my sister teasing me like Jo Jin-seong…
“It’s small in other people’s eyes, right? In my eyes, it’s on the small side.”
As my sister said that, she put her hand on my head and moved it back and forth as if we were swapping keys with hers.
“Look at this. I’m bigger.”
“Oh, I see.”
But even if I didn’t do anything like this, I wasn’t particularly impressed because my height was always shorter than my sister.
Assuming that my height now as a woman has not changed compared to when I was a man, it means that I was originally shorter than my older sister.
So I thought.
I decided to think that I had become shorter than a man.
“···How tall are you?”
“Hmm… 175? I think it was about that much.”
I don’t know if it’s because I worked as a model, but I suddenly realized that my older sister is tall.
When I think about the fact that my height was 167 when I got my physical examination before I went to the military…
“I lost 10 cm…”
“Huh? What?”
“Huh? Ah. It’s nothing.”
Let’s say your height was 185 cm when you were a man, and since your older sister was 175 cm tall, you lost exactly 10 cm.
Haha. It’s a shame that I lost my height, but I can’t help it because I’ve become a woman haha! Under! Ha… Haha…
‘For some reason, I feel ashamed… I guess it’s because of my mood…?”
It’s probably because of my mood.
It’s absolutely my mood.
* * *
Manager Lee Ha-young, who left the room for a moment so that Seohyun and Seoyoung could talk to each other, came to visit Jo Jin-seong.
“Why did you do that?”
“Huh? What?”
“I mean, I touched Seohyun gently. I know she’s not that kind of person, so don’t think about showing off.”
“Haha, did you get caught? After all, you can’t fool Manager Hayoung.”
Jo Jin-seong smiled and looked in Seohyun’s direction.
Hayoung Lee, who is Seoyoung’s manager but is also Seohyun’s daily manager today, followed Jo Jinseong’s gaze and looked at Seohyun.
Jo Jin-seong looked at Seohyun for a moment and then opened his mouth in a serious tone.
“I’m good at acting.”
“···Yes?”
Lee Ha-young thought for a moment that she had heard wrong.
That Jo Jin-seong praises others, and that too through acting?
Lee Ha-young opened her eyes wide and looked at Jo Jin-seong with an expression of disbelief.
What kind of person is he?
He started out as a child actor at a young age and has now risen to the level where his acting is recognized by everyone.
Maybe that’s why, although he is extremely gentle in other areas, he becomes extremely strict when it comes to acting.
He was an actor who relentlessly put pressure on his co-stars with their acting, regardless of whether they were good or not.
Whether I was good or bad, I was so discouraged by my acting that I almost died.
If there was someone he liked, he would mark that actor and relentlessly push him to become an actor after seeing his acting.
But what’s also surprising is that all the people who crossed over to Jo Jin-seong like that would return home with their acting skills improved when filming was over.
‘So the nickname is ‘Upgraded Human’?’
He got that nickname because he upgraded the acting skills of all his co-stars.
It’s a funny nickname considering the money, but I don’t think there’s a more fitting nickname.
However, I was surprised to see that such a person, a person who had never praised others for their acting even though he guided them through acting, was praising Seohyun, whom he met for the first time today.
“I said something similar to that little girl. Even though she was the first person to hear my praise, she just glared at me?”
“I glared at the actor…? Push…”
“Aren’t you laughing too openly? I was quite hurt seeing you like this.”
“Fuhaha…! Ahahahahaha…!”
“Hey, are you there?”
“Ahaha, sorry, sorry. It was so funny.”
Lee Ha-young continued her words, wiping away the tears that came from laughing so hard.
“Little lady… No, Seohyun, this is your first time acting today. So, of course, you have no choice but to not know actor Jinseong.”
“That’s your first time? Really? That’s not a lie, right?”
Jo Jin-seong looked at Ha-young Lee with an expression of disbelief.
Lee Ha-young shrugged her shoulders and said.
“What am I doing by lying? Originally, that role was going to be played by Seoyoung, who is in charge of me, but CEO Hana Jeong gave it to Seohyun.”
“The CEO gave me the role…?”
Jo Jin-seong looked at Lee Ha-young with an even more disbelieving expression.
In fact, Lee Ha-young, who was at her dinner table that day, knew that Seo-young had passed it on to Seohyun, but she thought that was it.
Thanks to Lee Ha-young, who lied calmly, Jo Jin-seong had no choice but to believe what Lee Ha-young said.
“The CEO gave me the role…”
Jo Jin-seong knew very well what kind of person Jeong Ha-na was because she was the head of the agency she belonged to.
He also knew that he was never one to give roles carelessly to others.
A person like that would give a role to someone who has never acted before.
“Well, you all have your own thoughts. You’re not the kind of person who gives something carelessly just because you’re close, right?”
“That’s right. I don’t know what you found in Seohyun.”
“······I feel like I know somehow. Haha.”
“What is it?”
It was the moment when Jo Jin-seong was about to open his mouth to answer Lee Ha-young, who asked what he was talking about.
“Actor Cho Jin-seong, filming will start soon, so the director is asking you to come!”
“Yes, I understand.”
Cho Jin-seong walked to the filming set when the staff called and answered Lee Ha-young.
“Well, I guess I’ll find out in a bit.”
Jo Jin-seong said that and walked towards the filming set.
Lee Ha-young, who was left behind, just tilted her head.
