The PV of
They even promoted it by holding a massive open audition called
They had virtually done everything they could.
Because of that, there were actually many who were half in doubt.
"I heard empty wagons make the most noise."
"If they invest this much and it completely flops, how much money will the GH Group lose?"
"But Joo Seoyeon is the protagonist, right? There's no work with Joo Seoyeon that has failed."
"It's true that Joo Seoyeon has appeared in hit works consecutively this year, but it's only been a year."
"That's true. They've been constantly successful, so it's about time they slipped up."
Roughly that kind of vibe.
Rather than expecting it to fail, it was more of a feeling of anxiety because it was filled with only too many good things.
However, the more that happened, the more the interest in
The decisive blow was exactly the Viola ambassador issue that happened yesterday.
- Joo Seoyeon became a Viola ambassador?
- ? What are you suddenly talking about
- No, it's up on Viola's homepage?
- No BS
- This is real
- How does someone become a luxury brand ambassador after only 1 year of activity
Even Seoyeon's fan community couldn't believe it for a moment.
She had shot a Viola ad before, but no one thought she would become an ambassador from just that one time.
To dismiss it just because it's a local brand, Viola doesn't make just anyone their ambassador.
It is strictly the face of the brand.
And they are deciding on a partner they will be with for a long time.
- No, why are there so many people waiting for the Villain PV right now? Whoa
- It already exceeded 30,000;;
- 30,000 just waiting lol
- Everyone is struggling for the second Child Game lol. What will they do, it's all ruined now right?
- Villain was decided around the same time as Child Game, you moron
- Just a troll, ban them
One hour before the promotional PV was released.
The number of people waiting had already exceeded 30,000.
Just having this many people attached to a PV shows how huge the expectations for
And at that time.
'Why are we all gathering to watch this.'
Seoyeon was in a slightly awkward situation.
No, rather than awkward, it was a slightly embarrassing situation.
"The
To put it simply, it was a suggestion from Song Dayeon, the teacher in charge of the drama club.
She said since it's the PV of a drama where their senior is active, how about watching it together.
Of course, Seoyeon had agreed casually at the time.
She rather thought she could naturally show her appearance as a 'senior'.
However.
'Now that we're actually watching it together, it's a bit...'
Glancing at Jiyeon next to her, she had an unconcerned face.
Rather, she seemed inwardly excited.
Well, she had heard the news that Seohee did the reshoots, so she must have been inwardly curious.
What Seohee's acting, putting her whole heart into it, would be like.
Of course, Seoyeon was curious too.
Though she didn't know if that would appear in the PV.
'Still, I'm glad I'm sitting a bit further away.'
Seoyeon looked at the drama club students staring at her and inwardly sighed in relief.
Mina, who was looking this way wanting to talk to her right now.
And Kim Hyeri, who had been boasting about appearing in Netrix before.
It seemed both freshmen had joined the drama club.
Well, otherwise they wouldn't have come to Yeonhwa High School.
As they each waited for the PV to start, their gazes watching it were different.
Mina had expectations.
Hyeri had a strange sense of rivalry and tension.
Probably because, from her perspective, it was a competing work.
'The work Hyeri appeared in is Moving Heaven.'
Of course, Hyeri was a minor supporting role with not much weight,
practically an extra.
The reaction to its PV was okay too.
First of all, because the material was unique, it received favorable reviews in Korea.
So, although there were some parts to criticize, it couldn't attract as much proper attention as
'I think its release date is next week.'
From Hyeri's standpoint, she would desperately want
It would be nice if everyone did well together, but human psychology isn't like that.
"Oh, it's starting."
While she was thinking that, she heard the voice of a male student in the drama club.
At the same time, the students' gazes briefly turned this way.
'...I should have just said I'd watch it separately.'
She came out trying to act like a senior for nothing.
Watching this with students from the same school feels completely different from watching it with an audience in a theater.
Seoyeon realized that fact anew.
And.
「That child is the key that can solve humanity's long-cherished wish.」
A low voice of a man laid down like a narration, and the PV began.
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Netrix drama
Seoyeon's first action acting was revealed to the world.
***
"Stella, what are you watching again?"
Stella was sitting on the set, with her laptop open on her spot.
A very rare sight.
Seeing that she even had earphones in, it seemed she was about to enjoy a video.
"The PV for a work by an actor I like is being released today."
"Oh, you have an actor you like? I thought you only liked your own acting?"
"Ahaha, of course I do. Didn't you see my interview last time?"
Stella's appearance as she let out a clear laugh was as beautiful as a fairy.
Her colleague, the actress Anna Riley, shrugged.
Because she couldn't tell if that was real or fake.
Originally, Stella wasn't even looking at her face.
'Interview? Is she perhaps talking about that Korean actor?'
Anna was one of the actresses who felt a sense of rivalry towards Stella.
Well, generally, that would be the case for any actress of her age who wasn't.
Hollywood.
A place where countless stars wage war,
Actors who stepped onto the battlefield being praised as geniuses were frequently crushed by the 'real deals' they met there.
Anna Riley, she too once thought she was a genius.
She prided herself on being the best at acting among her peers, and in fact, she was an actress who had stood out since her child actor days.
'I guess I'm a genius.'
Anna thought so.
Until she met the real monster right before her eyes.
"Show it to me too, Stella."
Anna said that and smiled.
It was just a simple joke.
'Stella will refuse anyway.'
Stella doesn't pay attention to others.
A fairy, a girl called that and smiling equally to everyone, but being equal to everyone means no one gets truly close to her.
Honestly, Anna thought that even if Stella said she had a 'favorite actor,' it didn't have any special meaning.
A recent interview?
Whether it was Korean or Japanese.
She must be trying to appeal to that market while she's in an Eastern country.
She simply thought so.
Korea or Japan.
Even if the Asian market is large, she didn't know much about it.
'No, is she interested because she's of mixed race?'
From what she heard, her adoptive father, Asher Baldwin, seemed to be doing something in Japan.
She heard he was making a movie, but she didn't know the exact reason.
It seemed Stella didn't know the reason well either, but......
"Heung~, what. Are you interested? Then come here, I'll specially show it to you if you want to see it."
"What?"
"Huh? Did I say it tactlessly? Did you just say it out of politeness?"
"Ah, no. I just didn't think you'd accept."
"That's too much~, aren't you thinking of me too stingily?"
Despite feeling a sense of incongruity at Stella's bright smile, Anna naturally sat next to her.
Right now, the set was in the middle of a heated discussion about another scene.
It seemed the actor shooting that scene was having a hard time.
So, Stella and Anna ended up with quite some free time.
'Villain?'
It was a work she was seeing for the first time.
From the looks of it, it seemed to be a Korean drama.
Korea.
A country that wasn't in Anna's head until
'The PV for a Korean drama released on Netrix? Why is Stella watching something like this?'
Stella rarely had any interest in OTT dramas.
In the first place, Stella doesn't appear in 'dramas' at all.
What she appears in are only movies.
'It's starting.'
Anna, who was watching Stella's side profile as she quietly waited for the video to start, turned her gaze to the screen as the video played along with grand background music.
「That child is the key that can solve humanity's long-cherished wish.」
Like a low narration, the voice of an old man is heard.
And, in the darkness.
Under an old lamp, several men are having a conversation.
「It's a miracle.」
「There won't be two.」
「So we must start with that child as the origin.」
They talked with a picture of a girl in the center.
In the picture was a mysterious girl wearing white clothes.
The men having such a conversation were of various nationalities.
Blonde hair, and black hair.
Figures from the West and the East had eyes gleaming with greed.
The light of the old lamp reflected their psychotic minds.
「Because this child is a gift given to us by God.」
The screen slowly moved and illuminated the man who had uttered those words.
'...Arthur?!'
And the moment she saw the man's appearance, Anna couldn't help but be shocked.
Arthur Diaz.
An actor hard to see even in Hollywood appeared in this?
'No way, is she watching it because Arthur appears?'
Then she could understand.
The strange inferiority complex Arthur had towards Stella.
And his sense of rivalry, Anna knew about it too.
But if they were actors of the same age, they had no choice but to nod.
If there was an actor of a similar age who could at least be compared to Stella, it would be Arthur Diaz, only him.
'...Or not?'
However, the gaze reflected in Stella's side profile, which she glimpsed at, was endlessly dry.
As if she didn't particularly want to see Arthur.
'Separately, the PV is very clean. Quite atmospheric.'
As the men's conversation ended, the screen slowly faded to black.
The sound of rain.
Footsteps of someone being chased and urgent cries.
It indicated that some incident had occurred.
A girl running desperately, panting for breath.
「Yeonseo, the world is more beautiful than you think.」
A gentle male voice is inserted into the screen like a flashback.
「I'll help you. You shouldn't be trapped here.」
The man breaks the shackles on Yeonseo's feet and becomes the bait in her place.
The girl, who gave him a brief glance, eventually runs out of the laboratory.
「Oops, what the-!! Miss!! You'll cause an accident!!」
The girl who ran desperately from the laboratory filled with white almost gets hit by a car as she runs out onto the road where people walk.
And, the connection she makes.
The middle-aged couple sends a pitying gaze at Yeonseo's shabby appearance.
Because it was an appearance that could only be seen as an orphan with no relatives in the world.
「Yeonseo, Jin Yeonseo. That's your name?」
They smile warmly as they look at the girl staring blankly at them.
「Yes.」
Even at their smiles, the girl tilts her head as if she can't understand their feelings.
That appearance felt strangely bizarre.
Because it was a face as if she couldn't understand the emotions they were feeling.
There is no background music.
Only their conversation flows out in the silence.
「By any chance, if you have nowhere to go, how about living with us?」
「Not Jin Yeonseo, but as Park Yeonseo.」
The name of the past, Jin Yeonseo.
And their daughter.
The ordinary girl, Park Yeonseo.
Like that, the girl Yeonseo receives a new surname and becomes an ordinary girl.
A rapid passage of time appears in the PV.
Becoming a middle school student, studying various things for a few years.
Growing up quickly, entering high school and making friends.
The bright background music indicates peacefulness.
However, unlike such light music, events that gradually arouse tension appear one after another on the screen.
「Found you, Jin Yeonseo.」
The frightening superhuman who chased her in her childhood.
Yeonseo, facing him, is the little girl who was running away at the beginning of the PV.
'The PV is at its climax.'
The remaining time is about 20 seconds.
Anna had no prior information about what kind of drama this was, so she watched it with tension-filled eyes.
Is it a thriller?
Judging only by the information revealed so far, it couldn't be seen as anything else.
'This Korean actress. The actress who played the role of Jin Yeonseo.'
Anna's gaze naturally headed toward that actress.
It wasn't simply because she was the protagonist.
The acting of a girl who doesn't know emotions.
The more she saw her, the more a strange sense of displeasure surged up.
Probably, she wasn't the only one who felt that way.
Just being able to move people's emotions like this meant she wasn't an ordinary actress.
But now it was different.
Jin Yeonseo, who faced the superhuman who had chased her, was an ordinary girl unlike in the past.
Knowing emotions, knowing how to be scared...
'...Huh?'
The corners of Jin Yeonseo's mouth, who was trembling after meeting the superhuman, twist.
It wasn't trembling with fear, but joy.
「You came too late.」
A low voice.
At her words, fear appears in the superhuman's eyes.
By this point, people also realize that something is wrong.
「Jin Yeonseo!!」
The superhuman roars and charges at her.
Showing that the superhuman is not an ordinary human, the scene of him charging at a fast speed.
However, against that, Jin Yeonseo reaches out her right hand and grabs his neck in one blow.
It was literally in an instant.
「Even if you don't shout like that, I can hear it well. My name.」
That was the beginning.
The quiet music gradually turns grand, and the scenes quickly flash by.
The action scenes to appear in the drama.
The fight between Jin Yeonseo and the superhumans.
A part of the scene where Jin Yeonseo, who was thought to be a weak girl, ruthlessly takes them down.
And when the light music suddenly cuts off.
「Why did you kill our father?」
In the darkness, a girl aims a gun at a man.
A culprit rummaging through a desk.
As if she knows who he is.
And, the culprit's smile briefly appears in the darkness.
「Is killing the one who created the devil such a wrong thing?」
With those words, the letters
The end of the PV.
Its length was roughly 2 minutes, but it felt like it ended in an instant, literally.
'Has the CG level of Korean films come up this much?'
Anna couldn't help but be surprised as she looked back on the PV she just saw.
The CG was extremely natural.
Above all, the impact of the briefly shown action scene was astounding.
Because she's an actress, she knows.
Looking at the cuts, there were many scenes where the action came from a viewpoint naturally looking at the girl.
In other words, it meant they filmed the action without a stunt double.
Nevertheless, there was no awkwardness in the action.
Even Anna was terrible at action acting.
Because action required not only talent but also effort.
The acting of the protagonist Jin Yeonseo.
And the action.
Honestly, Anna couldn't take her eyes off and had no choice but to watch.
The moment she thought the PV was all over like that.
"...An interview video?"
"This is PV2. It's a short video. Seems like something similar to a making-of video."
Actually, rather than a making-of video, it was a short video containing the promotional comments of the actors filmed for the movie.
「Filming Villain was really fun. It's a good drama. Honestly, it's been a long time since I had this much fun doing action acting.」
The first to appear was Arthur Diaz.
It was an interview conducted in fluent Korean.
"It's not acting."
Stella became a little surprised as she listened to Arthur's words.
He was someone who always wore a mask.
So she thought he would have said perfunctory words as usual in this interview.
However, Arthur unexpectedly had a face as if he really 'enjoyed' the acting.
And following that, interviews with various actors appeared.
Actors, staff.
Then the director, Han Yegeon.
Lastly, the protagonist Seoyeon and Jo Seohee, who appeared at the end of the PV, are caught on screen sitting side by side.
「It was my first time doing action acting, so I was honestly very worried, but I'm relieved that it came out better than I thought.」
Jo Seohee looks at Seoyeon saying that from next to her.
Strangely staring fixedly.
「Honestly, I made a lot of mistakes in this acting.」
Seohee continued speaking, fiddling with both her hands as if recalling the past.
「I even thought about just proceeding like this, but actor Joo Seoyeon helped me a lot.」
Saying that, Seohee smiled at Seoyeon.
Of course, at Seohee's words, a scene of Seoyeon smiling as if a little embarrassed was captured.
At the sight of the two, Anna felt a little wondrous.
Because it was quite difficult to see fellow actors of the same age looking that close.
Not simply a made-up appearance, but one that felt genuine.
At that affectionate appearance, Anna inadvertently let out a soft laugh.
"Heung~."
Stella also saw that and smiled strangely.
"You studied too much."
"Huh?"
"It's nothing."
She said that and turned off the video.
Because she had already seen everything she wanted to see.