I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 12
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Episode 12
Even when he received the first acting video, he hadn’t had particularly high expectations.
‘Her voice was definitely good. Her diction was excellent for just six months too.’
The lines coming from Han Yeoreum’s mouth vividly conveyed what she was trying to express.
‘But she’s still lacking in many ways. It’s hard to say she’s escaped being an amateur.’
But it was Senior Yeo’s recommendation.
‘If that picky Senior Yeo acknowledged her, she’ll at least be above average…’
She always gave decisive advice.
He couldn’t help but expect that she was hiding something.
‘But surely that voice isn’t the end of it.’
Team Leader Seong glanced around once.
‘Everyone came well-prepared.’
Most were dressed in school uniforms to match the concept of the high teen romantic comedy web drama.
Everyone seemed to have been to the shop since early morning, sparkling brightly.
“Participant number 49! Choi Jiyoung will begin acting.”
A single sheet of paper placed in the lobby. It was a short scene from 〈Parfait〉.
⟪An ordinary person 〈Pi Chaewon〉 who opened her eyes to find herself inside a cliché-filled romance manga.
Lines spoken in a situation where she’s become just another extra, a backdrop for the female protagonist 〈Hina〉.
Pi Chaewon: (Frowning) “Ugh… what a pain…”⟫
‘There aren’t many other lines.’
It was just a scene to show the protagonist’s indifferent personality.
“Ugh… what a pain…”
Some participants tilted their heads sideways as if fed up, while others scrunched their faces as if annoyed.
“Yes, that was good.”
Everyone was slightly different, but no one had shown particularly noteworthy acting.
‘Everyone’s similarly adequate… There’s no impact.’
Like dolls on a conveyor belt, participants spoke the same lines and disappeared.
“Next number, please come in.”
Team Leader Seong made short checks on the documents with his pen. It was to select those who might not be bad when paired with the male protagonist Ju Junseo.
And then.
“Participant number 101! Han Yeoreum.”
The name Team Leader Seong had been waiting for was called.
Team Leader Seong, who looked up, couldn’t help but be flustered.
‘…The same person?’
The participant before his eyes was completely different from the face in the documents.
‘Really?’
Disheveled long hair, glasses and a loose-fitting skirt, a large backpack that could never be seen in romance manga. It was truly the appearance of a Korean high school girl standing before his eyes.
“Team Leader, Team Leader. Look at that…! That’s what I wanted!”
The writer sitting next to Team Leader Seong whispered to him.
She had been indifferent even to the well-prepared appearances of the participants.
‘Certainly…’
Han Yeoreum’s entrance was a refreshing shock.
‘She doesn’t seem to have any thought of trying to look pretty?’
A plain face with no styling at all and hair tied back tightly.
‘Different from the photo, but this is more-.’
Team Leader Seong was actually more drawn to Yeoreum in person.
“Then, I’ll begin acting.”
Han Yeoreum, who had been smiling brightly, immediately changed her expression.
Her pupils, which had been shining with reflected light, became dull. Just like the dead fish eyes written in the scenario.
‘Oh… she looks a bit different like this.’
Han Yeoreum turned her head to look around, then dragged over an empty chair.
Screech-.
“What’s this?”
“Who knows…?”
The judges gradually began to lose their boredom at Yeoreum’s actions. The same lines and the same acting. But.
‘Something’s definitely different. How should I put it?’
As if enchanted by something, the judges who had dead fish eyes from hours of repetitive situations began to show signs of life. Team Leader Seong also became curious about Han Yeoreum.
At that moment, though the judges didn’t know it, Yeoreum’s skill activated. And everyone’s attention began to focus on Yeoreum.
Thud-.
Yeoreum dropped the bag she’d brought to the floor as if throwing it down. The sound was heavy, showing how many workbooks were inside.
“Phew…”
Then she plopped down heavily in the prepared chair. It wasn’t acting at the level of simply reciting lines.
‘Right. This one seems to really exist?’
Every action resembled Pi Chaewon, the female protagonist of 〈Parfait Cherry is the Heroine’s〉 that the producers envisioned. Team Leader Seong also paid attention to Han Yeoreum’s actions.
Zip-.
Han Yeoreum opened her bag and took out a workbook. The sound of fluttering pages was clear.
Then she paused her actions at one page.
“Ah…”
Yeoreum peeled off a pink heart-shaped post-it note that was attached and crumpled it.
“What a pain…”
Snap-!
Then she closed the workbook.
That was all.
The given acting was over.
Team Leader Seong, who met Han Yeoreum’s cynical eyes, instinctively felt it.
‘…Now I understand why Senior Yeo recommended her.’
Han Yeoreum was an actor who knew how to add story to a scene.
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Most participants kept their focus on ‘Japanese romance manga.’ That was the problem.
‘The kick of this drama should be an actual Korean high school girl.’
That way, lines full of emotion like “Let’s move forward one step with each other’s courage, yeah…! We’re friends after all…!” and situations like suddenly locking someone in the gym storage become funny.
‘It was worth watching even the behind-the-scenes videos.’
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-I thought I’d wear pretty school uniforms at first too, but ugh… that wasn’t it. You know those uniforms with the exact same fit as the ones I wore in high school? The writer emphasized so many times that I absolutely had to wear this-!
So I also came wearing my high school uniform just as it was. The sneakers I used to wear, the bag I used to carry.
To match the author’s intention. So I could show exactly the protagonist that exists in the author’s mind.
‘Plus an addition.’
I appropriately mixed in ‘sending messages with Post-it notes in textbooks,’ which was one of the scenes from 〈Pachehi〉. It’s one of the habits of 〈Hina〉, the heroine of the romance manga and the person Pi Chaewon looks at with dead fish eyes.
‘Emphasizing the sunny character by sticking cute messages here and there.’
[As expected, being together gives me strength, right? ٩(๑>∀<๑)۶ Humans can never live alone after all. -Hina-]
The content isn’t much. But even messages like this work as something that gently melts the heart of the cold-blooded delinquent boss male protagonist—that’s exactly the romance manga cliché.
“Could I take a look at the Post-it note that was stuck on the workbook?”
The person who appeared to be the author asked with sparkling eyes. I unfolded the crumpled Post-it note and handed it to her.
Of course, since this was before the drama came out, I wrote the message to have a similar nuance to what actually appeared in the drama.
‘Romance manga heroine dialogue is pretty much the same everywhere anyway.’
The small Post-it note moved from the author’s hand to the person next to her, then to the person next to them.
“You interpreted it properly.”
After it reached the last person like that,
Ding-!
The Status Window appeared. It seems I properly appealed to them.
I blinked once with the dead fish eyes I had been maintaining the whole time.
“Nothing more to see. Let’s start adjusting the schedule.”
And just like that, I was cast as the lead in the web drama in one go.
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Click. Pause.
Do Gyeoul stopped at the same scene once again.
“25 minutes 27 seconds…”
Muttering, Do Gyeoul picked up a pen and scribbled something.
The notebook in her hand was completely worn at the edges.
Click-.
As if possessed by something, Gyeoul dragged the playback bar forward once more.
“Why on earth.”
What filled one entire wall of Gyeoul’s room were captured photos from the movie Yeoreum had acted in last time.
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