I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 126
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Episode 126
Now they had to release articles along with the press materials they had received in advance. The visual quality was impressive enough to make the overseas location shoot worthwhile. Comment reactions were quickly pouring in.
[Intube]
SBC DRAMA NET 360,000 subscribers
[This is what real class looks like Teaser Trailer] 0:30
-Wow the money smell is no joke lol Director Na isn’t called that for nothing
-A large-scale drama after so long..^^ The composition is refreshing~ The actors are stylish too. I’m looking forward to seeing each of them show their strengths
-Holy shit who cast Ju Junseo I need to hug them so tight ahhhhh my husband
“Who would call this a drama?”
“It looks like a movie. How much was the production budget?”
“This is 30 billion won…”
It wasn’t full pre-production, but partial pre-production.
“If it’s 30 billion for barely making half of it.”
“That means at least 50 billion until the finale.”
Sponsorships from numerous brands, production support, cooperation from linked overseas tourism boards, and above all.
“SBC is really going all out for their 30th anniversary…”
An anniversary drama. The impact it carried was significant.
Each broadcasting company grandly celebrates their founding anniversaries in 10-year intervals, and this was mostly expressed through scale.
Either authentic historical dramas that properly showcase history and tradition, or large-scale dramas with enormous capital investment. It was largely one of these two, and this time took on the latter role.
It was like expressing that SBC’s brand value was this much.
Clack clack- Clack clack clack-.
The fingers of Daily Media reporters moved faster. They accelerated the speed of typing on their keyboards.
“When is the premiere date for that! Check it quickly!”
“A minor gallery has already been created. I’ll send you the link-.”
“Check the sponsoring brands for Gi Juye and Ju Junseo!”
“People will soon be curious about filming locations too, so let’s do a Macau special article?”
In the midst of everyone getting busy, only Reporter Wi was thinking different thoughts.
‘…What about Yeoreum?’
starts 4 episodes earlier than . It was a good setup to capture early viewers.
‘When is the teaser trailer coming out!’
This was a tilted playing field from the start. was far too advantageous.
teaser trailer GIFs and screenshots were uploaded to the minor gallery, and drama fans’ attention began to focus on one place.
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filming continued without a moment’s rest. Now it was Yeomga’s turn.
Thanks to Team B diligently filming, the teaser trailer would be completed with just a few more shots of Yeomga’s scenes.
The set emanating the gloomy aura of a shaman was entirely black.
From the jet-black mother-of-pearl cabinet to the deep blue silk bedding, the folding screen painted with dark mountains and waterfalls gave a feeling that made one’s eyes sting just looking at it.
Yeomga, wearing black shaman robes, pinned her hair up with a hairpin embedded with purple amethyst and walked out to the filming set.
“Teacher!”
“Teacher Geum Bitkang has arrived-!”
As soon as Geum Bitkang arrived at the filming set, the staff members shouted in unison. Today was Yeomga’s first filming day. They had to film the gut ritual that would go into the teaser trailer along with scenes of her manipulating Prince Seonghui.
“The set looks good.”
“Thank you!”
Geum Bitkang gave Jjang Director the highest praise. Receiving this level of evaluation from Geum Bitkang, who was strict with compliments, meant proper recognition.
Jjang Director put a lot of effort into camera direction.
Myeongdo and Seoryeong were mainly composed moving forward, and the camera raced along the tracks as if following them.
Conversely, Yeomga symbolized stagnation. The camera moved slowly on rotating tracks around her, observing her gloomily.
“Yeomga has become a human who cannot smile, right…”
“That’s correct. She’s a character who offered all her humanity as a sacrifice for revenge.”
“Then she should smile but not laugh, right?”
Jjang Director was constantly amazed by Geum Bitkang’s interpretations. When a person reached a certain level, they would point out things that ordinary people would find difficult to even think about.
“Your Highness must steel your heart.”
This place, which broke even the common sense that those of high status sit in the place of honor, was Yeomga’s space. The two people conversed with a folding screen between them.
Yeomga sat inside while Prince Seonghui sat outside, properly showing the hierarchy between the two.
“All these things will become light to illuminate Your Highness’s future…”
Behind the folding screen, Yeomga was smiling. Though her voice was dignified and weighty, her hidden smile could be seen by everyone except Prince Seonghui.
Smiling but not laughing.
Jjang Director could feel what that meant. Goosebumps rose on his arms.
“Then now go to Crown Prince Yunhui and tell him.”
Geum Bitkang brought Yeomga into the world according to her own interpretation. She overlaid the aspect of a victim with trauma after suffering an indelible wound in life onto Yeomga.
As if some part of her brain was broken, she opened her eyes wide, pulled her chin inward, focused her gaze in one direction, then conversely lifted her chin up and opened her mouth. Her expression kept changing every few seconds.
The camera wandered around Yeomga, capturing her appearance from various angles.
“Head to Cheonmaekji.”
As if unable to properly fix her body, Yeomga caused slight tremors at the tip of her chin and twisted her face to one side.
Though Yeomga constantly moved her facial muscles, her voice never wavered once, and her pronunciation was also precise.
This made her feel even more like an unknown entity.
It felt as if pure joy of a human whose long-cherished wish was about to be realized and distantly cold reason were simultaneously controlling her body.
“I shall do so. And the talisman you gave me, I should place it in that shrine when the moon rises tonight, right?”
Prince Seonghui beyond the folding screen asked again anxiously. Though the line clearly contained dangerous implications, the prince was still merely human.
Unlike Yeomga, who had become human yet not human.
Prince Seonghui didn’t emanate the kind of fear that would overwhelm viewers.
“That’s right. Soon the world will come into Your Highness’s embrace…”
Creak-. Yeomga’s face twisted strangely with creaking sounds. Her head turned crookedly, but only her gaze remained fiercely fixed as if to pierce through the prince.
Prince Seonghui beyond the folding screen didn’t notice this and smiled.
Yeomga’s face appeared again through the dim folding screen that blocked the view. Yeomga’s eyes contained mockery.
In this game, the folding screen wasn’t Yeomga, who had lowly blood flowing through her.
On the other side. The prince with noble blood who knew nothing was her puppet.
“…Cut…”
Jjang Director said blankly.
The judgment that they could make a teaser with just this short conversation was somewhat impulsive, but the editing team who received the file also had no choice but to nod.
Yeomga made people tense just by her existence.
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“Ah, I’m not interested in .”
The person muttering while refreshing their cell phone screen was IP 85.152.
No matter how much they searched for drama content, only came up.
IP 85.152 had been suffering from wanting to see Han Yeoreum’s acting again since like a chronic illness. There was no answer to this.
“Ah, this is really driving me crazy…”
For those who endlessly attend plays and musicals, it was a familiar ailment, and for audiences suffering from the ‘show me that moment just one more time before my eyes’ syndrome, there was an expensive remedy called the ‘revolving door.’
However, what IP 85.152 was suffering from was that day’s . The revolving door itself was impossible.
She had watched it so many times that she was now on the verge of memorizing all the dialogue.
“I’d even watch some teasers if there were any….”
Drama fangirling wasn’t her taste, but IP 85.152 habitually searched. It was then that the words appeared on IP 85.152’s feed.
Finally, the Teaser Trailer had been uploaded.
[Intube]
JC ENM 890,000 subscribers
[Things That Are Not Human Live and Breathe Teaser Trailer] 0:30
“Oh! It’s up!”
IP 85.152 quickly clicked on the trailer video. Against a dark screen background, only someone’s voice could be heard.
-Your Highness must steel your heart.
What appeared next was a natural landscape shot from atop a dizzyingly high cliff. A man could be seen walking out from behind an abandoned hermitage.
“Han Yeoreum?”
It was Yeoreum in male disguise.
With an expressionless face, Yeoreum took out a talisman from her bosom and spread her hand forcefully to cast sorcery. Soon after, bright red flames engulfed Yeoreum.
Like a red tongue flickering, the firelight greedily devoured the surroundings.
Thoom-.
A massive tree, engulfed in flames, crashed to the ground. Yeoreum’s eyes as she felled the tree were cold as ice.
Before long, the flames had spread madly and were heading toward the village.
-All of these events,
Even as the flames consumed it, the village remained eerily quiet.
As if no one had ever lived there from the beginning.
As if there had never been any people.
Whoooo-.
The sound of dry wind blowing could be heard. As if that were a signal flare, sound effects rushed in rapidly and the screen switched.
A wall with rotting rope hanging on it, the rustling sound of cockroaches moving above it, thud- a maiden collapsing to the floor, the sound of a funeral dirge wondering when they’ll return once they leave, a man with limbs bound and mouth gagged struggling, a blade touching his palm, the sound of slicing through soft flesh, tears forming in bloodshot eyes from pain, and blood beading on his palm as well.
-They will become the light that illuminates Your Highness’s future….
Contrary to the narration, the screen grew increasingly gloomy.
An old box with a withered child’s hand sticking out, a clown trapped in prison unable to drink even a sip of water, a child’s chilling laughter overlapping the endless bass sound of insects crawling around, men abandoning their comrade being mauled by a tiger and throwing torches to the ground as they flee, Madam hesitating with her hand on a rope hanging from the ceiling.
And as if watching all these situations, someone slowly showing their face from behind a folding screen painted with a black waterfall.
At that moment, the light sound of plucking geomungo strings played as everything fell silent. Silent enough that not even breathing could be heard.
-Strange Tales.
Geum Bitkang, smiling but not truly smiling, announced.
-June 17th. First chapter.
“Insane….”
IP 85.152 unconsciously replayed the video.
Just 30 seconds, just the Teaser Trailer alone was enough to make every muscle in her body tense with anticipation.
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