I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 198

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Episode 198

Manager Ma watched with satisfaction as Yeoreum crunched on celery for tomorrow’s photo shoot.

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This was Taiwan’s Shilin Residence. With elegant and simple Western-style houses alongside a vast ecological park, it was a place where even random shutter clicks would produce A-cuts.

“Check the accessories one more time, and arrange them in order, in order!”

The Taiwan Ruel team moved busily ahead of the photo shoot. With outdoor filming came the risk of losing items, and celebrities who would be cover girls tended to become sensitive.

To manage the expensive clothing and accessories, the staff checked the set more thoroughly than usual.

‘The difficulty level is high.’

Ruel’s photographer drank coffee while watching the styling team prepare busily.

Han Yeoreum had become popular enough to be called the most popular Korean in Taiwan right now. This photographer was also familiar with her face.

‘I saw her as Korea Ruel’s cover girl three months ago.’

Han Yeoreum had graced the cover of October’s Ruel. It was divided into two types, A and B. Type A was a Halloween-themed cover with a black background, wearing white mourning clothes with a red flower in her mouth. Type B had a dark green background with a crazily slashed folding screen behind her, smiling peacefully.

‘Reservations went crazy to match the quality.’

It was when her popularity hadn’t died down after ended. With a concept that perfectly matched the season decorating the cover, all pre-orders sold out.

‘The InTube video clip also had good reactions.’

The photo shoot behind-the-scenes video went out as Ruel channel’s original content.

Typical making-of videos usually got only a few thousand views at most, but Han Yeoreum pulled influence comparable to decent male actors. It recorded 30,000 views.

‘Come to think of it, what did they say.’

Ruel’s photographer recalled what his friend who attended Han Yeoreum’s fan meeting yesterday had said.

The friend who went in business mode with his camera for photos to be used by local Taiwan media returned a few hours later as Han Yeoreum’s fan. Despite not having watched .

‘Did he say she devours the lens.’

The photographer remembered the excited voice.

“She just makes you press the shutter!”

He had also gone on for several minutes about Han Yeoreum delivering lines live on set. The photographer, who had schedules from dawn, listened half-heartedly.

‘Well, if there had been such an event on set, it would be worth shooting.’

It was like an occupational disease. It was the fate of photographers to want to capture every moment with the shutter, especially memorable timing.

‘But probably there won’t be such events this time.’

He heard that when shooting the last Korea Ruel cover, there were only 4 inside pages.

‘It was even an indoor shoot.’

In contrast, today’s shoot was a whopping 8 pages. Moreover, being outdoors made the difficulty different.

‘It would be fortunate if we could secure even one solid A-cut.’

He didn’t have high expectations for a rookie unfamiliar with outdoor shoots.

“The actress has arrived!”

He received news that Han Yeoreum was coming from the parking lot. He hung his camera around his neck and stood up.

“Let’s do the final check!”

A cool breeze blew over his head as he left the shade of the installed tent.

The weather was good. The sunlight was near perfect. Strangely, his heart kept fluttering with excitement.

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The white wall placed under the blue sky made the frame refreshingly clear. The photographer held up his camera, and the set lighting brightened.

The first thing to shoot was the magazine’s cover photo.

‘This is the most important part of this shoot.’

It wasn’t just a simple image. It was a kind of signal that this brand had chosen this person as this month’s face.

Sales were influenced by who was decorating the front page.

“Please stand in the center of the wall!”

The interpreter conveyed the photographer’s instructions. Yeoreum stood in the center of the wall. Behind her back, the wall was arched open, giving a full view of the sky and the vast grass garden spread below.

Yeoreum’s loose hair, tied up high, swayed gently in the wind.

‘Come to think of it, she feels a bit different from when I saw her on screen.’

When he occasionally glimpsed clips of , the overall image was intense. Either cursing or biting her lips tightly to endure pain.

But Yeoreum with light, transparent makeup close to bare face and naturally tied-up hair had an atmosphere that suited her name well.

‘Come to think of it, her next work is a first love role.’

It was exactly the atmosphere written on the concept sheet. A comfortable feeling of first love.

Yeoreum held a bubble stick in her hand. Bubble machines were placed on both sides for background.

“Just move comfortably. I’ll keep pressing the shutter, so let’s go lightly with a rehearsal first.”

Perfectly set up, Yeoreum fit in as if she had been standing in this spot from the beginning. Yeoreum lightly moved her hand to open the bubbles. She held the elongated part straight and brought it to her lips.

“Whoo-.”

When she pursed her lips and blew air, bubbles that shone rainbow colors in the sunlight poured out. The bubbles scattered in the gently blowing wind.

Click.

The photographer unconsciously pressed the shutter.

‘Huh.’

Despite it being a rehearsal, his finger moved half-unconsciously.

“She’s asking if this is how to do it.”

“Uh… Yes. Like that. Just move naturally.”

At the interpreter’s relay, the photographer couldn’t give proper directing and just nodded for now.

However the message was conveyed, Han Yeoreum moved as if she had come to this spot to blow bubbles from the beginning, right from the start of shooting. She didn’t seem to have any thoughts about looking good for the lens.

‘Natural.’

She would scrunch her face when trying to greedily blow one big bubble only to have it burst near her nose, and when sudden wind lifted bubbles to the sky, she would raise her chin and follow them with her gaze.

Click, click, click, clickclickclickclick

At some point, there was no directing. The photographer kept shouting the same thing.

“Okay! Good!”

He captured Yeoreum beyond the frame again and again. Not even knowing how much time had passed, the assistant photographer beside him said,

“Photographer, don’t you need to check this cut?”

Only then did he come to his senses. He shouted loudly.

“10-minute break!”

It was time to check the memory and see if any A-cuts came out. The time had come to choose whether to continue shooting like this or move on to the next outfit.

It was when the camera shutter briefly rested. Yeoreum’s expression, having relaxed her facial muscles comfortably, suddenly turned cool.

Closed corners of her mouth. Eyes cast downward. The angle of her head slightly turned away from the sun. Just that alone briefly revealed a completely different face from before.

‘Usually it’s a face easy to capture from subjects with uneven eyes.’

The commonly seen duality. It was easily seen in models where one eye was raised and the other lowered.

Emphasizing the right side of the face gave a good feeling, while emphasizing the left side gave an evil feeling.

Han Yeoreum’s face was perfectly symmetrical if you really looked at it. The carefully crafted curved face looked identical whether viewed from the left or right.

‘Strange.’

The photographer unconsciously raised his camera again and pressed the shutter. Han Yeoreum’s moment of not being conscious of the camera was captured in the memory.

Click-

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