Seo Yeon had already played 'Jin Yeon Seo' in
Of course, back then it wasn't Yeon Seo but 'Yeohwa'.
The Yeohwa of that time and the current 'Yeon Seo' are different.
It doesn't mean the character has changed, but the circumstances are completely different.
'Yeon Seo grew up in a laboratory, and because of that, she never had the chance to properly interact with people.'
Perhaps it was also because she was a test subject.
She failed to properly acquire the 'emotions' that ordinary people would have learned innately.
That state is exactly where she is now.
'In a way, she's similar to me.'
When she received the full script for
She's similar to me.
'Not to my past life this time, but to the current me.'
It might sound funny, but Seo Yeon had grown younger mentally compared to the past.
No, saying she grew younger has a logical flaw.
It's closer to having regained her original time.
When she was first born in this world, the Seo Yeon of that time was closer to her past life's 'me' than 'Joo Seo Yeon'.
A being who still mistakenly believed she couldn't feel emotions.
As she grew, as she learned she was different, she became who she is now.
Therefore, most people who knew Seo Yeon's past say this.
"Seo Yeon was so composed and mature when she was young."
Of course, they know that.
Because it was actually true.
As she gradually acquired emotions, until puberty hit.
After going through puberty, she became her current self, but Seo Yeon doesn't particularly miss her past self.
She might have been composed and mature back then, but Seo Yeon wasn't an adult yet.
Sometimes she feels embarrassed, but she likes who she is now.
Who she is now, possessing the sensibilities of a teenage girl.
'And, young Yeon Seo is the me before I became who I am now.'
She's close to her childhood self.
At the same time, a younger self who is closer to the past.
A younger self who doesn't know how to simulate emotions.
A me who doesn't know the facial expressions and gestures that should be made according to emotions.
Seo Yeon lowers her gaze.
A pure white dress.
And hair let loose without any care.
"Action!"
When the filming began with such a shout, Seo Yeon pondered what to do.
She grasps the emotion.
No, there's no need to force it.
In a way, it's similar to Cha Seo Ah.
Because she knows it so well, she naturally immerses herself.
「Eve, why are you silent? Time is of the essence right now, we need to hurry and escape this place…….」
Arthur's lines playing Adam suddenly stopped.
His pupils looking at her dilated, and a subtle emotional change was felt in detail.
Is it acting?
No, she thinks probably not.
Because fear momentarily reflected in Arthur's eyes.
'It's been a while, this kind of gaze.'
Humans instinctively feel discomfort when they see something that resembles a human.
And when it intensifies, they feel fear from it.
For example, the old movie 'Terminator' is about that human psychology.
It's a movie that draws out the underlying fear.
The fear that a machine resembling a human can give.
Her past self was such a being.
Unable to perceive emotions, resembling human actions but fundamentally different.
It started to properly reveal itself around the time her past life self just started kindergarten.
Her past life mother called such a her and said this.
"Act normally like other people. Don't do strange things."
At that time, Seo Yeon still didn't know about her condition.
Don't do strange things.
Act like other people.
She heard those words as if they were being drilled into her ears, and tried to act accordingly.
Yes, she tried to do so.
Even though, that wasn't something so easy to do.
"That kid is a bit scary, right?"
"She's a bit like a doll. Really…… something's weird."
The words she heard most while growing up.
Of course, even after becoming Seo Yeon, she still frequently hears the phrase "like a doll."
Every time, she flinched inwardly, but she recognizes that it's an expression meaning "pretty."
Of course, it still bothers her.
In her past life, when people said such things, they looked at her that way.
At that time, she didn't know the reason.
'I laugh when other people laugh, and cry when they cry, don't I?'
It was just strange.
But she knows the reason now.
Her self back then laughed half a beat late and cried half a beat late after seeing others' reactions.
Her face was merely imitating shapes, not emotions.
Because she simulated people's emotions with crude children's drawings, an indescribable discomfort came over them.
Just as Seo Yeon knows how to simulate others' emotions.
Revealing her past self again wasn't that difficult either.
Because she learned while growing up which part of herself draws out discomfort from the other person.
She just needs to show that in her current acting.
For Seo Yeon, this acting was truly simple.
It was also natural that the previous acting of 'Yeohwa' was simple.
Yeon Seo, who came into the world without knowing emotions, learned emotions, and became an ordinary person.
In a way, she had many similarities to herself.
「Outside? What do you mean by that?」
Gazing at the frozen Arthur, Seo Yeon.
No, 'Yeon Seo' spoke.
An emotionless voice.
There's no such thing as tone in the voice, so it sounds like a voice awkwardly flowing from a machine.
「Adam?」
The latter part was ad-libbed. Seeing Yeon Seo tilting her head and asking, Adam came to his senses belatedly.
'Don't mess with me.'
Looking at Seo Yeon gazing at him, Arthur gritted his teeth.
When Oliver said she was like an Esper, he dismissed it as nonsense.
However, seeing Seo Yeon's appearance now, it was hard to simply call it nonsense.
'Don't mess with me.'
Just now, Arthur truly felt 'fear.'
From Seo Yeon's 'acting'?
No.
'It's not acting.'
That can't be.
Even knowing that can't be, Seo Yeon's current behavior doesn't feel like acting at all.
It's not just because the other person immersed herself into her role excessively.
It's not just because she feels like the real 'Yeon Seo.'
There was no sign of the Method from Seo Yeon either.
She just became someone else when she started acting.
It's an absurd thing.
If that were called a supernatural ability, Arthur thought he could accept it.
'Was what that woman said really true?'
Above all, a person came to Arthur's mind seeing Seo Yeon's current appearance.
And.
'This is unexpected.'
There was one more person who thought the same as Arthur.
'Stella Baldwin.'
Han Ye Geon stroked his chin on the filming set where only the two actors' lines could be heard.
Just once.
There was a movie he watched with genuine admiration.
'It reminds me of young Stella from
A film dealing with the American foster care system.
A film depicting the miserable life of a child whose guardians change time and time again.
It's a film showing that the American foster care system is by no means only a good system, and Stella Baldwin won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress as the youngest with this film.
Later, when it was revealed that Stella, the child actress who participated in the filming, was an actual victim of the foster care system, rumors circulated about her 'easily immersive acting,' but Han Ye Geon had a different thought when he saw Stella's acting back then.
'It's not simply the foster care system. It shows that the protagonist herself is also a problematic person.'
Stella in the movie was like a monster.
A child, but like a monster.
Therefore, people naturally feel fear and cannot truly accept her as a child.
That's Seo Yeon right now.
Just her existence alone makes one feel fear.
Clearly knowing it's acting.
Even though that behavior isn't particularly strange.
'Acting coming from experience…… usually looks like that.'
Han Ye Geon had felt a similar vibe from 'Cha Seo Ah' before.
Honestly, it was a bit confusing.
It's not like a person's life happens multiple times, but the actress named Joo Seo Yeon certainly seemed to have such a thing.
'Should I say she's much better than during Cha Seo Ah?'
The acting that won her the Best Actress award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The fact that immediately came to mind as a comparison showed how alien Seo Yeon was right now.
Because the scenes currently unfolding were making him feel that emotion more and more strongly.
「Where are we going? What's outside if we leave here? Is that blue sky and field you spoke of, Adam, there?」
Yeon Seo doesn't know where she is right now.
Which country.
Which land she's on.
So even when told 'outside,' it doesn't feel real at all.
She doesn't know where to go.
「It's okay, just follow me, Yeon Seo. I'll show you everything I told you about from now on.」
Clearly feeling fear rather than acting for a moment, Arthur naturally continued his lines.
As if the 'fear' he just felt from Yeon Seo was acting, it was that natural.
The break in lines and change in expression that could have been an NG naturally appeared as if it were acting.
The actors who noticed that let out low groans.
If it were them, could they show the same reaction facing Seo Yeon's acting just now?
'Honestly, it's difficult.'
It was exactly as Director Han Ye Geon requested.
Like a girl who doesn't know emotions, like a machine.
「Really? I'm happy.」
Yeon Seo said so and smiled.
People felt for the first time that a human's smile could be this discomforting.
Her eyes aren't smiling, only her facial muscles moving.
The skin of her face feels like a mask simply imitating a human smile.
Like that.
"Cut! That was excellent."
The scene ended with Han Ye Geon's words.
Leaving behind a peculiar sense of discomfort.
***
"Thank you for your hard work today."
Having finished filming, Seo Yeon came out wearing her school uniform again and said to Arthur.
Arthur stared at such a Seo Yeon for a moment without a word.
"……Yes, you worked hard too, Seo Yeon."
"Your ad-lib was good today. Honestly, I thought it was an NG at that time."
Yeah, it almost was an NG.
Arthur almost ground his teeth again when he remembered that time.
Because a strange sense of humiliation filled his chest.
He didn't know there would be another actor who would make him feel such an emotion.
Even from an actress of such a small country.
He thought they were just spouting thoughtless words like genius, genius.
"It will be different next time."
"What?"
"I was just a bit taken aback today. Next time……."
Arthur, who was about to say 'I won't lose to you,' closed his mouth.
Because saying that was tantamount to admitting he lost today.
"……Never mind. Let's see each other at the next shoot."
The scenes filmed today were up to the scene where Seo Yeon and Arthur escape the laboratory.
Naturally, there was no room for action between the two.
'It will be different when action and acting are mixed.'
This should be advantageous for him as a man.
Thinking that felt somewhat petty, so Arthur clicked his tongue.
Anyway, since most of the action in today's scenes was from the supporting cast or extras, he felt inwardly disappointed.
Chasing the fleeing two, or the battle with those trying to protect them.
So, it felt like he couldn't show everything he had.
Perhaps because of that, the atmosphere of the filming set belonged not to him, but to Joo Seo Yeon.
Considering he always took the lead at Reeding, it made him grind his teeth.
"Arthur."
"Enough, Oliver. I know what you mean. It certainly was acting like an Esper."
To the point where that obnoxious woman comes to mind.
Seeing Arthur grinding his teeth, Oliver closed his mouth.
'That's not what I meant.'
He said it because she truly seemed like a real Esper, not just acting.
He saw her firmly pressing and bending an iron bar; if that's not an Esper, what is?
'He'll find out when we get into filming.'
Of course, today's acting was also amazing.
There aren't many actresses in Hollywood who can perform such acting.
Especially, the acting shown today had enough intensity to make even Oliver's body freeze for a moment.
'Joo Seo Yeon…….'
Oliver murmured that name.
For some reason, it didn't seem like it would end as just a brief connection with this drama.
***
'Still, the first shoot ended well.'
It felt like she used a cheat to get through the acting.
Memories of her past life.
Should she say she's reaping the benefits of those and the memories of her current life in many ways?
In the case of
She never thought the protagonist's setting in the work would be like this.
'Even if it were released as is, it seems like it would have gotten a decent reaction.'
Of course, it depends on how the CG quality was.
Checking the script, there were many parts she was inwardly looking forward to.
For example, the chase scene filmed riding a motorcycle.
And the one-versus-many fight against multiple people.
There are plenty of scenes to look forward to in many ways.
Unlike Cha Seo Ah, who was close to a psychopath truly lacking emotion,
After coming out into society, she acquires emotions and lives like an ordinary high school girl.
Of course, during battle, her childhood appearance surfaces.
'I like it.'
Do they call this kind of thing a dark hero? Is that what they called it?
Because it had that feel, Seo Yeon was highly satisfied.
With this, her image probably won't be damaged either.
The current lighthearted feeling will probably fade a bit too.
While having such thoughts.
"Seo Yeon, how's the dress? This is a dress to wear to a school party."
Park Eun Ha said so and smiled at Seo Yeon as if finding it fascinating.
'Kids these days do this too.'
In her time, it was at most a pajama party, but as times change, it seems this kind of thing happens too.
"Ah, it seems fine."
Seo Yeon looked at the clothes she was wearing and quickly checked herself in the mirror.
It wasn't a bad feeling at all.
'If it's a year-end party, a dress like this would be expected, right?'
Is it a bit much? She felt that way, but Gil Da Hyun said it had a Western-style party feel.
Looking it up, there were many videos of people wearing roughly these kinds of dresses.
So, before getting her awards ceremony dress fitted, she got this one made first.
A pitch-black dress.
Similar to the dress she wore at the upper-class party she went to with Seo Hee before.