If an actor cannot immerse themselves in their role, what should they do?
Acting is comprehensive.
Good acting comes from balancing the exterior and interior, combined with the actor's skills.
As is often the case with art, it cannot be properly expressed through just one aspect.
Therefore, not understanding the role was a fatal flaw, but.
"Today's the first shoot, right? Everyone, don't be nervous and let's proceed smoothly!"
Director Kim Il-soo spoke casually, but he felt uncomfortable inside.
Because he too had heard rumors about the drama department's restructuring.
'If we fall behind here, the picture won't look good.'
It could become a bad omen for
Hence, a renewed determination.
He had to produce the drama with as much completeness as possible.
Well, it wasn't like KMB was the only broadcasting station, right?
"Today's scene is about Lee Yoo-joo, who comes to 'Sky Garden'. In other words, the young actors need to step up."
The beginning starts from the adults' perspective.
An explanation of the character named Lee Yoo-joo.
And what must be obtained from her.
The behind-the-scenes circumstances of the adults targeting her, and the children caught up in it had to be shown.
"The protagonist is Lee Yoo-joo, but the other kids must also play their parts."
In a way, it was like the time of
In the sense that each role had a lead-level presence.
Of course, they weren't completely lead-level like in
If so, it could easily become scattered, so the focus was mainly on three.
The students were Lee Yoo-joo and Lee Min-hyuk, the eldest of the Lee Hyuk-soo family.
And the adult was Gil Soo-jin, the lady of the Lee Hyuk-soo family.
The flow of the story mainly revolves around these three.
What they were filming today was episode 1.
Naturally, the story had to unfold around these three, creating a flow that allowed immersion into them.
'Alright. It's fine.'
Kim Hyun-suk, who played the role of Lee Min-hyuk, the eldest of the Lee Hyuk-soo family, stroked his tense chest.
He was confident in his acting, but apart from that, being nervous was inevitable.
Taking deep breaths, he scanned the other actors.
There were especially many young actors today.
It was only natural.
The place where Lee Yoo-joo first appears is a school.
Naturally, many actors playing student roles had to appear.
'I heard rumors that she doesn't get nervous easily, but...'
Kim Hyun-suk glanced at Seo-yeon.
The kid had a strangely different atmosphere from usual.
Unlike the other nervous young actors, she had an especially nonchalant face.
That also didn't sit well with him, but he couldn't bring himself to say anything.
The coin still in Kim Hyun-suk's pocket.
Because its presence was vividly felt.
"Well, then. Let's start filming first."
The sound of cameras moving from all directions was heard.
Matching their OK signs, the set felt heightened just before filming began.
Watching that, Min Se-hee clasped her hands earnestly.
Her appearance briefly looked as if she was praying.
In fact, Min Se-hee's heart was that desperate.
'Please, it has to come out like the feeling I imagined.'
There were times when the script and the actual drama felt different.
That wasn't the actors' fault, but entirely the writer's problem.
It was her own fault for not considering the feeling when writing it down versus when it was expressed as a scene.
Everyone praised it as fun when reading the script.
Director Kim Il-soo also confidently said he would bring it to life as the script was, but...
'I'm still anxious.'
She had to strengthen her resolve.
It was something Park Jung-woo frequently said to Min Se-hee.
Even though the script wasn't fully completed yet, she found herself wavering from the very first episode.
Because the broadcast started from the point where up to episode 4 was filmed.
"Well, then. Action!!"
With the director's shout, the clapperboard clapped, and filming began in earnest.
***
'Sky Garden', where the upper class lives.
Spectacular appearances like a painting, and relaxed, harmonious families.
They met regularly, exchanging various information and building friendships.
However, that was only on the surface.
It was also true that they watched each other more than anyone, harboring a competitive spirit.
Showing each other harmonious appearances, the key figures of 'Sky Garden' are introduced.
From the perspective of Gil Soo-jin, the lady of the Lee Hyuk-soo family.
Eventually, when that harmonious scene stopped.
In a silent space, Gil Soo-jin opened her mouth with a calm voice.
"I heard some information recently."
At those words, her husband Lee Hyuk-soo's gaze moved.
Silent, quiet eyes.
"Lee Yoo-joo."
"Who is that?"
"The younger sister of last year's top student at Baekyeon Medical School."
"You're scary. How did you know the name?"
"Her father is a college admissions coordinator. He boasted about it proudly."
College admissions coordinator.
The moment he heard that name, Lee Hyuk-soo's pupils narrowed.
Because something came to his mind too.
"Ah, that guy. I remember, was it the event you went to recently?"
"That's right. I thought he was washed up, but he prepared such a surprise show."
The top student of Baekyeon Medical School.
The son of a long-washed-up college admissions coordinator went there.
Could there be a more certain promotional tool than this?
Furthermore, his earnings were meager, so he probably couldn't even provide proper backup.
"All the parents in that seat targeted that man. They wanted to know what method he used. So he excitedly bragged about his child."
His daughter is entering Taeyang High School this time.
He said he taught his daughter all the methods.
The conviction that she would walk the same path as her older brother this time was contained in those words.
"The portfolio of the top student at Baekyeon Medical School, she's a kid who has perfectly mastered it."
"Can she do that?"
"Her older brother actually did it, right? And perfectly at that."
They say he was a model student like a painting.
Internal grades, bonus points—he missed nothing.
From volunteer work to student council president.
The result was shown as the top student at Baekyeon Medical School.
"I told Min-seo. Since she's a girl, to get as close to her as possible."
The two twins.
It was absolutely necessary for the slightly lacking daughter.
"If the daughter is lacking, the parents must design it for her, right?"
Somehow, they had to catch that child.
It didn't matter if it was a lacking household.
Because her own children were the most precious to her.
Like that.
The scene shifted, to the school.
"Lee Yoo-joo, huh."
There was a male student muttering such words.
Lee Min-hyuk, the eldest of the Lee Hyuk-soo family and Min-seo's older brother.
He scanned the people participating in today's entrance ceremony with his younger sister.
Who among them was Lee Yoo-joo?
"How are we supposed to find her without a picture?"
The twin sister, Min-seo, grumbled.
Unlike Min-hyuk, she was the one who was told to get close to her.
But how could she get close to someone whose face she didn't even know?
Especially if they were in different classes?
Should she go find her directly?
"They said you'd recognize her at a glance."
"Does that make sense? Why do we need to care about a kid like that in the first place? You said her parents are just failed college admissions coordinators?"
"They aren't failed now. Their son went to the top of Baekyeon Medical School."
"That's... true, but. Hmph, I'm not really interested in medical school... Ah, got it."
Min-seo flinched at Min-hyuk's cold gaze.
Unlike Min-hyuk, who was good at studying, Min-seo had many lacking areas.
That was why Gil Soo-jin paid more attention to her.
"Do you want to become a failed life, kid?"
"I'm not a kid."
"Hmph," she grumbled, looking around cautiously as Min-seo complained.
To Min-hyuk, such a twin sister just seemed immature.
Things she wants to do.
She had never even thought about such things.
A successful life was waiting for her, so was there any need to take a different path?
It was a worry of the well-fed.
She only needed to walk the path her parents had created, so what was so difficult?
"You just need to get close to her. Then, since she's a kid from a poor family, won't she spill every little detail?"
"Isn't it a bit much to say a poor family?"
"I heard rumors they even put their house up for sale."
"R-really? Then how did she get into Taeyang High?"
"By her grades."
It was the moment the two were talking like that.
Another group of high schoolers entered the auditorium where the entrance ceremony was being held.
Among the students starting to fill the empty lines, a small stir was felt.
"What is it?"
She felt the gazes of the people moving strangely.
Following that, the siblings' eyes naturally moved.
What they saw.
The cause of this stir.
"!!"
There was a pitch-black female student there.
Yes, pitch-black.
It wasn't simply an external opinion.
Presence.
As if swallowing light.
A human imbued with quiet darkness was there.
She heard they'd recognize her at a glance.
Just as the words said, she couldn't help but recognize her at a glance.
Middle class, no.
An extraordinary female student who might not even be middle class.
There was an extraordinariness felt with every step she took.
'Ah.'
Lee Min-hyuk.
No, the actor playing Lee Min-hyuk.
Kim Hyun-suk forgot his words for a moment.
He felt like he had a line, but it couldn't easily flow out.
That would probably be the same for the actress playing Min-seo next to him.
Min-seo, who was supposed to chatter fussily, couldn't utter a single word.
The surrounding stir.
It wasn't simple acting.
Many students.
Even among the many students and actors, there was a presence she emitted.
Anyone who saw this scene, no matter who, would have no choice but to feel it.
That is the lead.
At that time, her eyes met Lee Yoo-joo's.
It was then that Lee Yoo-joo's calm expression changed.
Her eyes curved, and a twisted smile formed at the corners of her mouth.
A sneer.
The disgust contained in those eyes flew like an arrow and pierced Kim Hyun-suk's body.
"Aren't you going to say your line?"
"Ah."
At her sarcastic remark, Kim Hyun-suk answered dumbly.
He had to say his line, but he couldn't remember it at all.
"Cut, cut, cut! Let's do it again. Again!"
At Director Kim Il-soo's shout, the actors belatedly came to their senses.
It felt like everyone was exhaling the breath they had been holding.
'Is she really a high school student?'
'More importantly, I heard she has a great personality?'
'Isn't she a kid who plays around a bit?'
Everyone thought such things as they looked at Seo-yeon.
An extremely dissatisfied, twisted face.
The sneer at the corner of her mouth still hadn't faded.
When her coldly curved eyes turned to them, they unconsciously lowered their gaze.
The atmosphere was completely different from the script reading before.
'What? Why is she like that.'
'Is that method acting or something?'
Everyone grumbled, but no one said it out loud.
Because they were completely overwhelmed by the scene, they had no choice but to quietly shrink.
'…….'
Seo-yeon read the thoughts of such actors.
She was about to think differently for a moment, but forcefully stopped herself.
'I have to keep holding onto the emotion right now.'
Lee Yoo-joo.
To become familiar with that character who was different from herself.
The class president she studied with.
She recalled the words she heard from Gil Da-hyun.
"If it's hard to understand, just memorize the solving process as it is."
Da-hyun said so and smiled.
"You have good memorization, Seo-yeon. If you perfectly memorize the formula, you'll be able to do it naturally without being conscious of it."
Memorization.
Yes, exactly as she said.
In fact, Seo-yeon had done something similar once before.
When Seo-yeon first decided to make her comeback.
Participating in a play, as the stalker 'Hong Jung-hee'.
She tried to understand the sensibility in her own way, but couldn't fully understand it, so she imitated Pyo Ji-woo.
Adding her own acting to that, she made it her own Hong Jung-hee.
In a way, she simply followed the method Pyo Ji-woo used to solve the problem.
'It's the same this time.'
There's no need to think too hard.
It just didn't become easier than back then.
Seo-yeon watched movies and dramas for reference and engraved them in her eyes.
And, keeping that emotion as it was, she came to the filming set.
Perfectly memorizing the character named Lee Yoo-joo.
A sharp gaze.
Twisted lips.
With the atmosphere of disgust towards her surroundings, she could feel the surrounding actors being intimidated.
Seeing that, Kim Hyun-suk clenched his teeth.
Because it was as obvious as a fire how that scene would turn out.
'They probably weren't even visible.'
It was a relief that they weren't caught in the scene together at least.
That was the extent to which he thought so.
The actors who were in the same scene as Seo-yeon just now.
If they saw it on TV, how many people would remember their faces?
They probably wouldn't even know they were there.
Because they would all be focused on the character Lee Yoo-joo.
It was truly a shocking first appearance scene.
'Even an NG on top of that.'
Kim Hyun-suk chewed his lower lip hard.
He was like the coin in his pocket.
A perfectly folded, useless coin.
Seo-yeon's gaze seemed to be mocking his gaze.
No, she was actually mocking.
As if saying, "You talked so big with your mouth, and that's it?"
That kind of feeling.
Was it because of that?
Filming was finished a few hours after that.
Because Kim Hyun-suk made several NGs.
Like that.
That evening.
"……."
Returning after finishing filming, Seo-yeon lay on her bed and thought.
'I overdid it.'
Holding onto the emotion from home had too severe side effects.
She recalled her figure scattering sneers and contempt in all directions.
"……."
The acting came out as satisfactorily as she wanted, but.
How should I put this, she became embarrassed.
Especially when she saw Kim Hyun-suk, that feeling was strong.
Recalling Kim Hyun-suk trembling miserably as he made NG after NG, Seo-yeon flinched for no reason.
Because her figure sneering at that time came to mind.
This is, too, a bit.
Seo-yeon kicked the blanket vehemently.
And.
"Oh my, daughter. Where did the blanket go?"
"It, it ripped."
"Oh my, it ripped?"
"Yes, yes."
Seo-yeon hastily gathered the cotton from the ripped blanket.
With her face dyed bright red from embarrassment.
***
Anyway, in the midst of filming episode 1 of
It was a time with a little left until the next filming of
It was a rare break in Seo-yeon's schedule.
"An interview?"
"Yeah, is your schedule okay?"
A call from Cha Na-hee.
It was business related to
"Dream Future is being exported to Japan this time. So it seems they're going to conduct an interview along with it."
That said, it wasn't an interview with a Japanese reporter.
It was strictly a domestic interview.
"They say it'll proceed in a way of communicating with the fans."
"I'm fine with it."
"Really? Oh, and by the way."
Is there something else besides the interview?
Thinking so, she listened closely.
"Among the PDs I know, there's one who's interested in Seo-yeon. A variety show PD."
Variety show!
Seo-yeon became highly interested.
Anyway you put it, Seo-yeon liked variety show filming.
Because it was mostly active work, and there was a lot of this and that to learn.
"By any chance, do you like observation variety shows?"
At those words, Seo-yeon had no choice but to freeze stiffly.