An actor audition.
Specifically,
Frankly, most reactions were lukewarm.
Well, audition programs had already been done to death.
However, that evaluation flipped after the trailer was released.
Especially after Seo-yeon's flashy rappel action was shown.
- Isn't it all scripted for variety shows anyway?
- Honestly, someone else probably jumped for her;;
- Real, the people who believe that are so naive
Of course, not everyone showed a positive reaction.
There were also many opinions that were generally skeptical.
Because the action shown was so extreme, words even spread asking if it was manipulated.
- Who is this Ju Seo-yeon, why show her for so long?
- She blew up with The Chaser
- She was in Dream Future recently, so she's somewhat a trend
- I'm seeing her for the first time though?
The community's reaction was generally like that.
The 'Quiet' community was surprisingly Ju Seo-yeon's fan community.
Over there, the reaction was more like, 'That could be possible.'
- Hmm, now she's even overcome gravity...
- Hyper Action Star? Do they really need to pick that through an audition?
- A bit looking forward to what she'll show this time
- Real lol
- Just looking at the trailer, you can see Seo-yeon is excited
- Well, she would be excited...
Thus, as various opinions crossed.
The officially broadcast Episode 1 of
Simulcast on internet broadcast and comprehensive programming channels.
This alone showed how much care the GH Group put into this variety show.
- It's starting
- Is this live?
- Yeah, it's all live
Group A, the very first.
20 actors stood in the set with nervous faces.
The set made of broken styrofoam buildings seemed to have the concept of 'Ruins'.
Among them each in comfortable attire, one person stood out in particular.
Ju Seo-yeon.
Unlike the others who were tense, she stood with an exceptionally calm face, making her stand out even more.
- ? Why is she in a school uniform again
- She's a high school girl
- No, even if she's a high school girl, does one normally come in a school uniform????
- Where is a combat uniform stronger than a school uniform? You really don't know
- ???
- But she is really fucking pretty though
Most were in comfortable clothes.
Among them, some came dressed to fit their character concept.
Jo Seo-hee, Han So-yoo.
That kind of group.
By this point, viewers couldn't help but catch on.
'Ah, so we have to establish a character starting from the outfit.'
In fact, actor Cha Min-gyu, standing at the very front as the instructor, was scanning those actors with sharp eyes and scoring them.
Meaning the outfits were also included in the score.
And the first mission that followed was a gunfight.
Actor Cha Min-gyu explained the rules for it in more detail.
How the points would be scored.
How they should perform their acting.
The actors had already received it in advance, but it was information delivered to the viewers for the first time.
- Gunfight?
- Can female actors do a gunfight?
- They probably haven't even touched a gun lol
- But can they act out superpowers while doing a gunfight?
No matter how much of an action actor one is, handling firearms is a different ballgame.
Even if it's a model gun, that doesn't change.
Of course, since there was a notice in advance, they would have practiced to some extent, but...
'Frankly, can they even hit properly?'
It would be a relief if a safety accident didn't happen.
The moment everyone thought so.
Bang!!
A sound of something being fired was heard.
The scene caught on camera, someone dropped a pistol and a fired bullet flew.
And that bullet flew exactly toward Seo-yeon.
- ? What the?
As if swatting a fly, Seo-yeon swatted it away.
Because it was captured clearly, the viewers' brains stopped for a moment.
- Did she just swat a paint round with her hand?
- It's a coincidence;; that doesn't make sense
- I just came from seeing Bong-sik's analysis, Ju Seo-yeon's eye movement when the bullet flew in
- Bullshit no, fucking YouTuber fans please fuck off
In a situation they couldn't believe even after seeing, most viewers concluded it was a coincidence.
Anyway, thanks to that, a brief commotion occurred before the start, and it took a few minutes to settle it down.
When the situation calmed down to some extent, actor Cha Min-gyu nodded.
And.
Beeeep!!!
A siren signaling the start of filming rang.
Since shooting was not allowed for the first few minutes, they ran to pre-occupy advantageous positions.
And.
The four caught on camera among them.
Seo-yeon, and the three chasing such Seo-yeon.
- Wow, three attached to her?
- Seems like they want to out her quickly since her action acting was good in The Chaser
- Ju Seo-yeon cut right at the beginning lol
- Didn't you see Ju Seo-yeon deflect the bullet just now??
- What the fuck, that's obviously a coincidence
The chat started going up rapidly.
On top of that, a scene of Min Do-ha hiding and watching them was captured.
Most expected Seo-yeon to be outed here.
Well, there are three of them.
It might be different if it was normal action acting, but this is a gunfight with points involved.
There was no way she could handle three people alone.
- Three??
- Does Ju Seo-yeon look like a joke?
- Why is she committing suicide?????
- ? Bullshit no, even if it's Ju Seo-yeon, what kind of monster is she? Make some sense
- Anyway, why are all fangirls so dumb
- If she's got a crazy ultimate, she could do that
People who seemed to be Seo-yeon's fans came up in the chat, but even that drew ridicule.
As everyone expected Seo-yeon's elimination, the muzzles of the pistols held by the three were aimed at Seo-yeon in unison.
And, she dodged the moment the bullets were fired.
Lowering her posture, she clearly dodged after 'seeing' them.
'Huh?'
At that moment, the viewers felt it.
However the actors facing her might have felt, at least the viewers could know clearly.
That Seo-yeon had become a completely different person from just a moment ago.
'Acting.'
Suddenly, they realized that this audition was to select the lead for a movie.
All the participants compete by acting out the characters they have set up.
This gunfight was the same.
The superpowers, and even the protagonist's settings mostly followed what the actors had conceived.
'Cha Seo-ah?'
For a moment, such a thought occurred.
But, no.
The smile forming on Seo-yeon's lips proved that.
Because Cha Seo-ah wouldn't smile like that.
A smile that provoked as if it was fun, as if telling them to do more.
It was clearly the three who shot first, but rather, they were completely overwhelmed by Seo-yeon's character.
The two bullets fired in succession.
Seo-yeon swung her arm and swatted them away.
Unlike what was thought to be a coincidence, as if it was completely natural.
- What the fuck
- Does that make sense?
- Paint rounds have a muzzle velocity of 90m/s;; even if they shoot slightly weaker ones for filming...
- It's absolutely not at a level you can see and swat away;;
Chat messages of panic even went up from those who initially thought it was ridiculous.
Swatting it away once by chance?
That could happen.
But dodging three bullets at the same time, and swatting two subsequently fired bullets with a hand?
No, does this make sense?
It was natural for such words to come out.
On top of that, Seo-yeon didn't just shoot from far away.
Dodging the bullets, she rather approached forward.
And point-blank shooting.
Furthermore, she didn't forget to whisper something in their ear before shooting.
- Lol now it's so absurd it's funny
- If you don't know, memorize it. 1 high school girl = 3 tanks
- Wasn't it the opposite?
- It's possible if it's Ju Seo-yeon
The remaining two were also simply disposed of.
There, Min Do-ha, who was secretly hiding and observing the situation, was seen aiming her muzzle at such Seo-yeon.
- No, is Min Do-ha crazy?
- She's shooting after seeing that?
- Do-ha shoots well yeah, if it's sniping from out of sight, it's worth a try
With a small firing sound, the bullet flew toward Seo-yeon's back.
Of course, Seo-yeon dodged it as if it was natural.
- She's not stopping, fuck, Do-ha, run!!!!
- Did Min Do-ha even have fans?
Min Do-ha running away as if she heard such chat.
Actually, Min Do-ha ran well.
She ran across the filming set to the extent that other actors couldn't properly aim at such Min Do-ha.
"Hoo, hoo."
The moment she let out a breath, thinking she had finally shaken her off.
Seo-yeon's head popped out abruptly.
Shining her red eyes brightly.
- Aaaagh!!!
- If it were me, I'm confident I'd pee myself right there
- No, why did she set the character like that, she's just a villain
- A tier 1 character in the Ju Seo-yeon universe appeared... Cha Seo-ah with regeneration..
Naturally, Min Do-ha screamed and ran away almost crawling on the ground.
Seo-yeon, who initially tried to chase such Min Do-ha, saw her and nodded with a face of genuine admiration, not acting.
"You act well."
Such a small mutter to herself.
- You crazy bitch, does that look like acting to you?????
- Save our Do-ha, why is she doing this
- Another person's struggle to survive = their best acting lol
- Ju Seo-yeon: Omoshiroi ww
- She just loves acting
Anyway, because of such activity—no, because of such a rampage—she attracted the actors' attention.
Gradually, the number of actors targeting Seo-yeon increased.
And the only ally who appeared in such a crisis, Jo Seo-hee.
- No, was Jo Seo-hee alive?
- She was crawling away earlier
- Survival ability GOAT
- Aren't the ones who couldn't kill her idiots?
- But bringing personal belongings was allowed, she set her character well
- Jo Seo-hee is originally smart yeah
Thus, with Jo Seo-hee's help, even her blind spots disappeared, and Seo-yeon literally flew around.
Dodging and swatting away the bullets coming at her.
And while doing so, she properly took care of her acting.
To the extent that viewers immediately grasped the weakness of the character Seo-yeon was acting.
- No fuck, she's letting herself get hit, shoot her limbs and run away!!
- Now she's become the one taking hits
- Can't you see her eye movement when the bullet flies? She's just a human weapon??
Gradually, the viewers also criticized such actors and showed overheated reactions.
Anyone could feel it.
That the protagonist of this gunfight mission was Ju Seo-yeon.
What is a protagonist in the end?
The basic requirement of a protagonist is precisely to make the viewers immersed.
In that sense, Ju Seo-yeon was truly a perfect lead for this variety show.
Looking at that beyond the TV, a man muttered.
"This... is amazing."
The man scheduled to be the director of
Director Han Ye-geon.
He swept his prickly bearded chin and immersed himself in the screen.
'Ju Seo-yeon.'
The person GH Group was considering as the lead for this
But to be honest, he felt doubtful about the point of picking her through an audition.
"I see, so there was... a reason for all this."
Seo-yeon's physical ability was certainly at an amazing level.
No, she dodges after seeing paint rounds?
Of course, what caught Han Ye-geon's eyes wasn't such physical ability.
'Acting.'
She was one of the few actors performing proper acting on this battlefield.
Even while being caught on screen the most.
In particular, what surprised Han Ye-geon was her acting with Han So-yoo.
'Even though she could do acting that would make herself look overwhelmingly dominant.'
She intentionally didn't do so.
She properly received Han So-yoo's 'psychokinesis acting' and took it with her body.
As if trying to remind them once again that this was an audition related to a superpower action movie.
The chatroom increased explosively at the realistic acting of flying.
Saying it looked like real superpowers.
Words upon words saying it would be good to put CG on this.
"... Frankly, I even considered declining."
Han Ye-geon is an action director who doesn't really like CG.
As much as he was infatuated with Hong Kong action movies when he was young, that tendency was even stronger.
But, watching Seo-yeon, he couldn't help but feel greedy.
The first mission, which gradually wrapped up after defeating Han So-yoo.
And what was the conclusion?
"Oh my, you worked hard. Our agent."
Bang.
With a small gunshot, Seo-yeon's appearance of being outed by Jo Seo-hee.
Then the chatroom exploded at once.
Not Seo-yeon smoothly winning, but Jo Seo-hee's betrayal at the very end.
A completely unexpected twist in a variety show.
Seeing that, Han Ye-geon simply smiled.
Because he already felt like he had met fun actors.
***
And a few days later.
The passers of the first mission were revealed.
'Well, I probably failed.'
Min Do-ha didn't even try to check.
She really didn't do anything.
Did she have a gunfight when getting the bag? It felt like she did, or maybe not.
She didn't even properly check her points until the end.
'It's a relief I failed.'
Rather, Min Do-ha felt relieved.
That she wouldn't have to get entangled with Ju Seo-yeon anymore.
This audition only left terrible memories for Min Do-ha.
Even now, when she goes to sleep, she remembers the red-eyed mutant creature chasing her to that extent.
'Should I look for a normal romance movie next time.'
Even a supporting role is fine.
Something that can help her gather her mind a little...
"Oh my, Do-ha, congratulations!! You passed the first audition!!"
"...."
However, the next day, at the words of her manager who came smiling and talking, Do-ha thought she misheard for a moment.
Passed? Me?
Min Do-ha hastily checked the email that came to her.
The evaluation score was written there too.
The points earned from the gunfight were only about 16 points.
It seemed she hit them as she fired wildly in all directions.
Among them, 8 points cut in half for being processed as dead.
With just that, it was a score that could absolutely not pass, but.
[Acting Score +20 points]
"...."
At such an evaluation category, Min Do-ha felt despair.
She wanted to call immediately and argue.
That it wasn't acting.
But to refuse this...
"Do-ha, congratulations! Hyper Action Star is no ordinary issue this time. I was worried what we'd do if you failed like this, but it's a relief!!"
At the manager's words sincerely congratulating her, Min Do-ha couldn't help but squeeze her eyes shut.
The red-eyed mutant creature smiling brightly came to her mind.
Today, somehow, it felt like she would have a nightmare.