Seoyeon looked at the changed script.
The filming of
In such a situation, a script change like this was quite special.
'Even so, it's not particularly a strange situation.'
During film shoots, scripts are often changed multiple times depending on various circumstances.
Or, considering various situations, they might shoot several versions of similar scenes.
At the same time, there are cases where multiple scripts exist, and sometimes even the scriptwriters are completely different.
Of course, Seoyeon hadn't particularly experienced this, but for seasoned actors, it was a common trial.
'Fortunately, it's a case where a scene itself was added.'
If an existing scene changes, the emotional line can also change, requiring one to grasp the emotions anew.
However, the current scene was purely an addition.
'...Some action acting was added?'
Glancing at Director Baek Min, she saw him smirk.
He probably immediately caught on to why she looked at him.
Then he made a motion of throwing something.
'Is he talking about the scene where I threw Jo Seo-hee?'
It seemed that entirely ad-libbed scene left quite an impression.
So, Yuina in the work seemed to have changed from a simple rich young lady to someone from a family with a peculiar yakuza vibe.
In a way, Yuina's setting had been partially altered.
'Thinking about what she does in the story, it actually feels more normal for her to be on the yakuza side.'
Come to think of it, Yuina's goal was to use Yeon Seon-ye to find the location where the Amanabi family's wealth, which Michiko was hiding, was concealed, and the key to get there.
The second was to kill Michiko.
Just looking at these two goals, it made sense that Yuina was from a yakuza family.
Then there would be additional scenes to shoot early on, but that wasn't particularly difficult.
It was an added setting that made it convincing even if Yuina was much stronger when fighting Michiko.
However, she didn't expect that setting to come out during the first shoot in Japan.
"Seoyeon, did you check the script?"
While she was checking the script and memorizing it, a few actors participating in this shoot struck up a conversation with her.
"There isn't a lot of action acting, but since some was added, we'll probably need to coordinate our timing. Are you okay with that?"
"Don't they usually practice action acting a lot more?"
"Ah, as you can see, that scene isn't anything grand."
True, looking at the script, it wasn't to the extent of needing heavy coordination; it was just Yuina scuffling a bit.
"Anyway, the action parts are the stunt actors' job."
Behind the actor who smiled while saying that, there were Caucasian actors.
They seemed to be stunt actors brought over from Japan.
Stella's role was probably a Western tycoon and merchant's daughter.
She was set up as Michiko's friend, but she was a character who betrays Michiko.
...Even so, her screen time was really minimal, but for a cameo, it was an exceptionally elaborate setting.
This was just a minor role.
Anyway, because of that setting, the bodyguards or subordinates she brought were all foreigners.
Since we came from Korea, we couldn't specifically cast such actors, so we had to get cooperation locally in Japan.
Since Japan had many Caucasian actors, it wasn't too difficult.
For reference, they were all stunt actors.
"Seoyeon, I heard the story."
"Yes?"
While looking at them, the male actor who had first spoken to her wore a mischievous smile.
"I heard that at the Cheonghong Action School, the stunt actors tremble whenever they see you?"
"...."
"They said it's like being thrown to a tiger? Coordinating acting with you."
"You're exaggerating too much."
"Is that so? I'm pretty sure I saw someone flying when I went to learn action acting too..."
"That was coincidentally..."
How could a person coincidentally fly.
Seoyeon stopped talking there.
She felt that saying more would only damage her dignity.
'I need to be moderately strong.'
Seoyeon sighed inwardly.
When she was young, she was simply at the level of an adult male, but now she felt like she had crossed the line.
Appearance aside, what was the reason this physical ability was given to her?
Did it really become invincible because she kept habitually calling it an invincible TS body?
"Anyway, it's a joke, but thinking about those guys getting it, I'm a bit excited."
He said so and gestured to Seoyeon.
As he just mentioned, it was to coordinate the action acting.
'It feels like the shoot is more delayed than usual.'
Probably because Stella needed to check the script.
It was a minor role, but precisely because it was a minor role, she had a lot of lines to deliver in that scene.
So it might take some time, but.
'Looking at the amount of script she's holding, it doesn't seem like she just received the script.'
Seoyeon cast a brief glance at Stella.
For just a script, the amount of paper in her hands was unusual.
Most likely, she was reading the entire content of
Just to shoot a single scene.
And, just as Seoyeon thought.
'The beginning starts with Yuina giving Yeon Seon-ye a request.'
What Stella was reading was the overall storyline of
A summary detailing what events had occurred up to the scene she was about to shoot.
The beginning of the movie is like this.
Kasugayama Yuina, walking through the streets of Gyeongseong, realizes that the pipe she always carried had disappeared.
And, Yuina suddenly recalls the woman who bumped into her and brushed past.
Literally in an instant.
A woman who stole her belongings at a timing that even Yuina couldn't notice.
Yuina was not the kind of personality to endure having something taken from her, and ordered Isamu to capture her.
However, Isamu smiles at Yuina and says he already knows that woman.
In fact, the woman who stole the pipe at that time was a woman Goto Isamu had already been keeping an eye on.
Isamu ordered that woman to steal Yuina's pipe.
To show off his skills to Yuina.
As proof, Isamu presents the pipe the woman had stolen to Yuina.
"What's your purpose? Isamu."
"That woman is a thief who will retrieve what you lost, my lady."
That is how the movie begins.
Isamu and Yeon Seon-ye had a separate relationship.
Yuina was next.
But their goals were the same.
Until their relationship changed midway.
'Interesting.'
Stella smiled as she read the scenario.
Closing her eyes, the described scenes came to mind vividly.
Yuina struggling to get back what was taken by Michiko.
And Michiko, for whom what Yuina desires doesn't matter at all.
Yeon Seon-ye, going between such a pair.
It was funny that the person who gradually became something 'truly' precious to both of them was someone they merely met by chance.
Moreover, from Yeon Seon-ye's perspective, the two sides were respectively the victim and the perpetrator.
Despite their different positions, they were gradually becoming the same.
Yuina tried to constantly dig up Michiko's secrets through Yeon Seon-ye.
Michiko gradually fell for such a Yeon Seon-ye, and conversely realized with what purpose Yeon Seon-ye was treating her.
However, she didn't show it.
Even though there was a sense of betrayal and deep conflict.
'And Yuina.'
To Yuina, Yeon Seon-ye was simply a chess piece, but that gradually changed.
And, the scene added today was a device to maximize Yuina's emotions.
'It was originally there, but they intend to show it more intensely with my role.'
Clearly, the initial planning seemed to focus more on the relationship between Michiko and Yeon Seon-ye, but now Yuina's weight seemed to have increased. They were probably trying to bring the love triangle to the forefront rather than the two's pure love.
Since the relationship between Michiko and Yeon Seon-ye increased significantly in the scene just shot, they were probably trying to raise the relationship between Yuina and Yeon Seon-ye in this scene.
And, in this scene, the role Stella herself played was a simple consumable.
Though a plausible explanation was attached, it was a simple consumable.
A world-class great actress made a cameo, but that was all the treatment she got.
She really liked that point.
[It seems we're now entering the shoot.]
When she had read the storyline of
[Can you really do it?]
Stella smiled at the question of whether she could do it.
That was asking if she could pull off this acting properly.
And, whether she could do it or not wasn't up to Stella.
It was whether the other actors could act properly or not.
[Yes, I can.]
Stella took her eyes off the script and looked ahead.
The faces of people like wax figures seemed to float in mid-air.
In her field of vision, people were like mannequins.
Some had faces, and some didn't.
Mannequins anyway.
Among them, there were those she could see clearly.
The actors dressed up for the shoot.
Among them were mannequins, and there were those who were not mannequins.
'Joo Seoyeon.'
The actress her father, Asher Baldwin, took an interest in.
She was standing there as 'Kasugayama Yuina', not a mannequin.
The actress next to her was also there as 'Yeon Seon-ye', though a bit blurry.
To Stella, reality was just a colorless space.
A terrible world where mannequins resided.
But, how beautiful are the humans living in the fictional world.
Roles.
Not humans, but beings created by imagination.
Lives that exist merely on printed text, that do not harm her.
Stella had simply met Seoyeon out of the interest Asher Baldwin showed.
But now it was different.
Probably, right now she was thinking deeper about Seoyeon than even Asher.
In front of the Korean broadcasting station.
From the very moment she first saw her.
'I could look at her straight from the beginning.'
Black hair and white skin.
Eyes with a reddish tint. Her eyes were definitely red when she was in character; were they contacts?
It doesn't matter, though.
What's important is that Stella could stare straight at Seoyeon.
In a world where everything was equal, only Seoyeon was clearly visible.
'Right. You're like that too. You usually dress yourself up as a role.'
She understood why Asher Baldwin said she resembled him.
Seoyeon lives in the world as an actress, just like herself.
So she couldn't help but be special.
'You should live in the same world as me.'
Stella put the script down next to her and stood up.
Since the shoot was about to begin, she needed to go to her designated spot.
'Like what you did to the other actors in Japan.'
Just as Asher Baldwin was horrified when he saw her.
Just as Stella came to Korea after seeing Seoyeon's acting.
If Seoyeon made that possible with a cameo, she would do the same.
She would show the acting that made her come to find her, right here.
'Yes, of course.'
Stella covered her face with her palm.
She felt a deep smile, one she had never made before, form on her lips.
That was definitely.
A sincere smile she hadn't made in a really long time.
Stella felt even better.
For the first time in a really long time.
***
'...She seems to be misunderstanding something.'
Seoyeon shuddered at Stella's intense gaze as she approached with a smile.
She had felt it before, but Stella's emotions were hard to read.
However, separate from her emotions, there was something Seoyeon consistently felt.
A sense of kinship.
Probably, Stella was feeling a similar emotion.
So, it was clear why she was sending such a gaze.
'Hmm.'
Of course, Seoyeon didn't know the reason.
But, it was clear that Stella was definitely misunderstanding something.
'Acting, huh.'
Thinking about the conversations with Stella so far, it seemed so.
Stella couldn't properly recognize people, and that was probably related to the illness she had.
Seoyeon had already confirmed that before the shoot.
'Stella lives dressing herself up, so does she think I'm similar to that?'
That might be the case.
But, she thought they were fundamentally a bit different.
'Maybe it has to do with me being bound to my past life.'
It might be a trait that appears because she hasn't 'graduated' yet.
Of course, it was all her guess, but anyway, Stella's thoughts and her thoughts were definitely different.
"I don't know."
"What, Joo Seoyeon."
"It's nothing. More importantly, you're filming with Stella, are you okay?"
"Of course, it doesn't matter."
Lee Ji-yeon said in a confident tone.
Her appearance was quite spirited, so Seoyeon almost clapped for her without thinking.
However, unlike her bold appearance, she thought it wouldn't be quite easy for Ji-yeon.
Because Stella, who was beaming right now, had come to completely break the scene.
She was there to push her own acting more intensely than anything else, rather than matching the other's pace.
"Since it's Yeon Seon-ye, you might be fine."
"...That sounds a bit offensive, you know?"
"No, it's just that you're good at acting that matches the other person."
Whatever else, Seoyeon believed that.
Anyway, Seoyeon had plenty of trust in 'Lamiel'.
'No matter how much of a vicious viewer Stella is.'
In her past life, how many malicious viewers did she accept with a smile?
So, she could trust that at least she would 'receive' the acting 'in some way'.
Even if she couldn't push herself forward intensely, there was no one as good as Ji-yeon at making the counterpart 'stand out'.
"That's not a fitting thing to say to the main character."
Ji-yeon grumbled.
And stood next to Jo Seo-hee.
Stella and Seoyeon were a bit far from entering.
Because the scene that would start first began from the perspective of Michiko and Yeon Seon-ye participating in an auction featuring trade goods from the West.
And Yuina, hearing news of the two, headed to the auction house late.
That was the beginning of this scene.
"My lady, is it really okay for a lowly one like me to go to this auction? Aren't we going to be kicked out?"
"Seon-ye, stop your chattering. With me right beside you, who in the world could expel you."
Jo Seo-hee spat out those lines and scanned the film set once.
And soon fixed her gaze on where Stella and Seoyeon were.
In this scene, Michiko didn't particularly have an active part.
So this time, she could watch their acting as a 'spectator'.
So there was a part she was a bit looking forward to.
Stella and Joo Seoyeon.
She was a bit disappointed when she saw Stella in person, but she was also an actress who could perform the starlight-like acting Jo Seo-hee so desperately longed for.
"You'll be able to see many sparkling things. Look forward to it, it'll be quite a sight."
She said so and smiled with anticipation.
That smile was definitely not just acting.
Because she was genuinely looking forward to the jewels she would see ahead.