As the siren signaling the start of filming rang out, the actors darted in all directions.
The sight of nearly twenty actors nimbly leaping to every corner of the set was almost spectacular.
‘As expected, they're all people confident in their physical abilities to some extent.’
Seoyeon ran after them, her eyes darting quickly.
Since they all claimed to be action actors, no one was slow on their feet.
‘Ah, except for one.’
One person was running relatively slowly.
Jo Seo-hee.
It was a bit harsh to say, but she looked like she would be taken out quickly.
‘Anyway.’
Seoyeon exhaled softly.
This was an entertainment show, yet not an entertainment show.
It was strictly an acting audition.
Naturally, she had to grasp her character and act properly.
‘My character is...’
After the previous meeting ended, she was contacted by
They asked her to state her ability so they could write the script.
They were probably finalizing the abilities right here.
Of course, Seoyeon answered 'Regenerator'.
She had no intention of changing that.
And the script she received afterward.
Clearly stated Seoyeon's ability as Regenerator.
The abilities of the other Group A participants were also written together.
The reason was simple.
‘These abilities themselves are the script.’
Professor Kim Hong-baek had once said.
What is the most important thing in action acting?
"It's about syncing up."
No matter how splendidly one moves alone, if the opponent cannot match it, it's merely gymnastics. Just ridiculous, hollow movements.
"Therefore, for action acting, you must repeat endlessly and engrave your opponent's movements into your eyes."
Striking, kicking. Getting hit and falling.
For that series of movements to look natural, you must sync up after all.
"But, if all this acting proceeds live... that is where the true skill of an action actor is revealed. Because all the acting is essentially ad-libbed."
The abilities were the minimal safety mechanism for that.
If they memorized the opponent's abilities in advance, they would be able to sync up with them on the spot.
‘Hence, the script.’
No dialogue was written.
But the opponents' abilities were all written down.
So, the moment they performed, she had to act as if crossing swords with them.
Seoyeon surveyed the abilities of those in her sight, as if reciting the script's lines in her head.
And examined the surrounding terrain.
The electronic scoreboard installed on the wall, and the number of cameras.
‘Besides the cameras installed all around, there are twenty cameramen moving around directly.’
A truly staggering number.
With that many, it was safe to assume each person was assigned one cameraman.
‘Five are watching me.’
Seoyeon ran through the set shaped like ruins, feeling the gazes clinging to her.
Gazes that had been following her from the start to keep her in check.
Three of them were moving as if they were a team.
They probably formed an implicit alliance before filming started.
Seoyeon inwardly thought they were smart.
Three was better than one.
And by grouping up like that, they gained character traits, and the cameras following them became three.
‘10 seconds.’
The scoreboard with twenty names.
Next to the names, 0 points was written for all.
It seemed to tally points in real-time.
Since they didn't wear separate sensors, they were probably checking while watching live.
‘5 seconds.’
Seoyeon, who was running, turned around.
Toward the three chasing behind her.
"……!!"
As Seoyeon suddenly turned, the three actors chasing her flinched for a moment.
However, realizing there were three of them, they glared at her sharply.
‘Joo Seoyeon.’
Probably the most recognized actor among the participants in this audition.
Of course, there was Jo Seo-hee, but she was in a realm not easily touched.
Since she hadn't done action acting in the first place, it was hard to gauge her skill level.
‘It's dangerous if we can't eliminate her as quickly as possible.’
Acting is presence.
The presence Cha Seo-ah showed in
‘I don't know what the future missions will be like, but...’
It was clear that this first mission, a pure point-based mission, was the best to eliminate Seoyeon.
Simply getting hit by a paintball was -1 point.
A fatal injury leading to death was -20 points.
Conversely, hitting an opponent's body with a paintball was +1 point.
Hitting a vital spot was +5 points.
Furthermore, inflicting a fatal wound on an opponent with high points and putting them in a 'dead' state would grant half of their points to oneself.
‘Roughly those rules.’
And naturally, since it was acting, if you died, you couldn't move anymore.
This was left to the actor's discretion.
Moving with a wound that anyone would consider fatal wouldn't convince anyone.
"1 second."
Someone said that.
The guns in their hands moved, the muzzles aiming for their respective targets.
Three muzzles aiming at Seoyeon.
Lee Ki-tae, who was watching the situation from a camera far away, focused his eyes.
At the same time, he recalled a conversation he had a while ago with a director from the GH Group.
"If it proceeds as a survival mission like this, the probability of Ms. Seoyeon being eliminated is high."
"Is that so? I actually think the opposite."
Kang Tae-jin, a director of the GH Group, placed his interlocked hands on his knees.
"Haven't you seen
"I have."
"Did you perhaps not see the interview?"
"Interview... you say."
He didn't think he saw that.
Was there an interview in the first place?
As he was thinking that, Director Kang Tae-jin continued.
"Right after reaching ten million viewers, there was an interview with the production team and the actors."
There, actor Kim Dae-heon, who played Detective Im Seung-cheol, and actor Park Hee-joon, who played Detective Seo Gwang-il, said this:
"The last brawl scene? Oh, don't even ask. I really thought I was going to die. Actor Park Hee-joon would probably agree, right?"
"Ah, right. I was also from the special forces, so I was confident in action scenes, but..."
They said this.
When filming the action scenes in
It could have ended with just a single take.
"One take?"
"Yes, but I wasn't satisfied. Because Ms. Seoyeon was perfect."
"Is that possible?"
The surprised reporter asked.
Action scenes require syncing up, so it's common to film them repeatedly over multiple takes.
Therefore, the physical exhaustion is great and the difficulty is high, so stunt doubles are usually used.
Professional stunt actors specializing only in action.
But while those two had experience, how could Seoyeon?
If the two actors said they refilmed because they were dissatisfied with their own acting, just how good was she?
"What do you think the two actors answered there?"
Director Kang Tae-jin still clearly remembered how the two actors answered that question.
"They said...'We sync up by 'watching' the action.'"
"Sync up by watching?"
Those words meant, the moment Seoyeon sees the opponent's action...
"It seems that the moment Ms. Seoyeon sees the opponent's acting, numerous action sequences come to her mind."
"Is that... possible?"
"Who knows. It works because it's possible, isn't it?"
It works because it's possible.
As Kang Tae-jin's words brushed past Lee Ki-tae's ears.
Tatatat!!
Paintballs were fired from the muzzles.
The camera chasing beside Seoyeon instantly zoomed in there.
The direction the muzzles moved was Seoyeon's chest.
If hit, it could be a fatal wound even if she had regeneration abilities.
‘The weaknesses of Joo Seoyeon written in the script are two.’
The script wrote down the abilities, and each had a vital spot.
Especially since Seoyeon was a Regenerator, there was a need to write it in detail, and those were the heart and the head.
If there were no spots that could inflict fatal wounds, she would be virtually invincible in this rule from the start.
So the three actors chasing Seoyeon aimed for her chest.
In the first place, deliberately shooting at the face would mean immediate elimination.
The moment they pulled the trigger like that.
Their eyes met Seoyeon's.
They couldn't help but see.
The vividly shining red eyes.
That moment.
Seoyeon lowered her body and twisted her posture in one breath.
"……!!"
Three bullets grazed past.
‘No way!!’
Did she dodge by seeing them?
A concise dodge enough to make them think just that.
"What are you doing, shoot!!"
The moment he shouted that at his flustered colleague, Seoyeon kicked off the ground.
"Heok!!"
She's charging back in here?
Normally, seeing the number of opponents, one would take cover and run away.
Or, shoot to keep them in check.
‘Why?’
But Seoyeon ran just as she had lowered her posture.
With her reddened pupils directed at the three.
‘Setting, what was the setting?’
As the situation became like this, the words written in the script didn't come to mind easily.
They weren't simple lines, so how could he recall what superpower someone had?
Bang, bang!!
In place of his flustered, halting colleague, bullets were fired in succession.
Seoyeon raised her left arm and struck them away as they were.
"!!"
Normally, the moment she was hit by the paintball, she wouldn't be able to use her arm.
If this was acting, that's what she should do.
But Seoyeon was a Regenerator.
Her weakness was the heart, but conversely, as long as the heart wasn't hit, it didn't matter where she was hit.
‘I should have chosen the regeneration ability too!!’
The ability most actors usually chose was physical enhancement, and easily imaginable ones like psychokinesis or fire abilities were the majority.
But in the latter case, it would be hard to show properly without CG.
But if it was regeneration.
"Acting."
Suddenly, Seoyeon's face was thrust right in front of his panicked face.
A small voice that could barely be called a whisper.
"You have to do it, right?"
He hadn't noticed when she got here.
Before he could even scream in surprise.
Seoyeon's right hand holding the gun moved.
The muzzle pressed against the spot where the protective gear lay beneath his clothes.
Bang!!
With a light sound, the paintball embedded in his chest.
Without even a gap to do anything, -20 points.
"……!!"
Even if they wanted to tell him to shoot, Seoyeon was pressed right against his colleague's body, making it hard to aim.
On the other hand, Seoyeon also didn't move easily, using him as a shield.
They could just shoot her like that.
At Seoyeon's reaction like that, the other two actors realized the reason late.
‘Could it be that she can't do long-range shooting?’
Seeing Seoyeon's physical abilities, there was no way she couldn't.
But the fact that she didn't.
Meant 'it was such a setting.'
The character Seoyeon set was terrible at long-range shooting, a constraint that she had to shoot at close range.
She explained that with this one scene.
Having regeneration ability, but sticking to close combat.
She clearly showed such pros and cons.
「Are you not going to attack anymore?」
Seoyeon's cold voice.
Along with the emotionless eyes reminiscent of Cha Seo-ah.
Lips twisted upward.
‘Acting.’
Just when did the acting start?
The actors felt goosebumps.
‘No, was that the movement of a normal person in the first place?’
‘She's a physical enhancement ability user!!’
The three all chose physical enhancement as their ability.
Because it seemed convenient when performing action scenes.
But seeing Seoyeon right in front of them, they couldn't bring themselves to say that.
They even thought, 'Don't we look too much like extras?'
"Ugh!!"
One jumped out first and gave a glance.
It meant that while he jumped and drew Seoyeon's attention, they should aim for that gap and shoot.
‘No matter how much of a regeneration ability she has, her left arm wouldn't have regenerated yet.’
Such thoughts.
The moment he stepped one foot forward like that.
"?"
Seoyeon was gone.
Where did she go, as he slowly moved his head to the side.
Tap.
The muzzle touched his side.
The moment the two flustered actors turned their muzzles toward Seoyeon just like that.
Tatatat!!!
Three gunshots rang out in succession.
***
Points were displayed on the scoreboard.
Joo Seoyeon: 13 points.
Everyone's eyes turned to the scoreboard at the points going up with a light sound.
Among them was Min Do-ha, who was watching the fight of the four.
"……."
He was going to jump in when the opportunity arose, but the situation was definitely strange.
No, how was she dodging the paintballs?
Seoyeon looked at the three who had fallen.
The three, who hadn't shown much acting until now, were pouring their souls into their performance.
Finding it slightly bitter that it was a death scene, Min Do-ha raised his muzzle toward Seoyeon.
‘If it's now, when she's off guard.’
Slowly, and quietly.
He pulled the trigger from behind Seoyeon's back.
Bang!!
With that sound, Seoyeon took a step back.
The paintball hitting her left shoulder and bouncing off.
"Huh?"
He aimed exactly for the center of her back.
She dodged that just by hearing the sound?
"……."
The moment he thought that, Seoyeon's gaze moved.
The red eyes stared straight at Min Do-ha.
The moment he saw that.
Min Do-ha turned his back and fled right there.