I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 263

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Chapter 263

Han Yeoreum’s face, now sitting comfortably as if it were her own home while welcoming Chu Gaeul, showed delight.

“Hey, why are you so late!”

“…I came 30 minutes early though.”

“Anyway, come in quickly. Cola or sprite?”

“…Huh?”

“Hurry up and answer! Cola or sprite!”

“Sp-sprite.”

Han Yeoreum strode over to the table and poured sprite into a cup with a splash. Then she spoke with a serious expression.

“The reason I called you today… is because there’s something special and important…”

Chu Gaeul unconsciously gripped the handle of the cup she had received tightly.

“Han Yeoreum’s fan cafe, 【Summer Day】, broke exactly 500 members at 8:31 AM this morning… Everyone applaud…”

“Wow- I’m jealous!”

“Congratulations, Yeoreum…”

“What kind of nonsense is that!”

Chu Gaeul, who had burst out at the ridiculous statement, quickly covered her mouth with one hand. So Dami and Director So were clapping.

That’s when it happened. Someone she didn’t even know was there appeared. It was a figure who had been sitting quietly in a corner of the sofa.

“Hmm-. Yeah, 500 is definitely a bit small. She’s a muse acknowledged by this Dokgo Min, so shouldn’t it be at least ten times that? Once we upload the kimono photos soon, that alone will bring it to 50,000.”

“Usually one photo doesn’t increase the influx rate that much… SNS followers might be different, but fan club membership has some hurdles… And now, strictly speaking, she’s my muse…”

“Don’t talk nonsense! Get this person out!”

“We could have done the script reading at our studio… but I came all the way here after you begged and pleaded… Sigh… Should I never call you to the filming set again…”

“Isn’t this abuse of power by someone in authority? Does it make sense to hand a megaphone to someone who can’t even properly recognize this genius Dokgo Min?”

Chu Gaeul briefly wondered what this chaos was all about.

‘…Isn’t today the script reading?’

That’s right. Today was the official script reading day for 【Youth Disqualified!】.

* * *

A few days ago, at Sangam MBS Drama Center. Director So showed the Center Director the plan she had prepared as a courtesy.

“Honestly… as Producer Gam said, you’re a bit old-fashioned? So I’m not sure if you’ll understand… but these days we can’t ignore the impact of InTube and SNS.”

“Hey! I know everything too, you punk!”

“Knowing with your head and knowing with your heart are different… Please promise me that since I brought Han Yeoreum, you won’t interfere with other matters…”

The Center Director checked Director So’s plan. Director So’s words were true. The Center Director’s brow furrowed with doubt.

“You want to do it like this? You’ll ignore all procedures and conventions?”

“You’ll ignore ratings and influence too…”

“This is driving me crazy…”

Director So had completely deleted the script reading procedure. She planned not to create the event of gathering reporters to show the actors’ chemistry at all.

“Are you confident you can make it successful?”

Instead, she turned it into InTube’s own content. Content that only 【Youth Disqualified!】 could do.

That was group projects. She planned to show the three main characters playing Na Yuna, Ko Yunkyo, and Jeong Heejeong seriously digging into the script together.

“This can’t help but succeed…”

The existing script reading video format was like this: A few dozen seconds of cast introductions and character introductions, about 10 seconds of them delivering lines on set. At most, they’d upload a short video of 2 to 3 minutes total.

“A 40-minute project… sigh…”

But the video Director So prepared was completely different. The Center Director read several times the passage about how the glimpse of 0.5-dimensional characters in daily life combined with the briefly revealed true selves drives people crazy.

“Good! Go ahead and do whatever you want! I’ll back you up!”

The Center Director squeezed his eyes shut and shouted. It was all or nothing anyway. The best card that had already overturned the market several times was in his hands, so there was nothing to fear. Especially since Han Yeoreum had drawn the most definitive response as soon as the 【Great Garland】 trailer came out.

“And Center Director, there’s something most important about this project… Something that absolutely can’t be left out… something that will probably have a tremendous impact on the ratings of MBS’s subsequent dramas…”

Director So looked intently at the Center Director with her usual quiet voice. The Center Director tightened his grip on the proposal.

* * *

“What is this person really?”

Dokgo Min wasn’t the type to just think to herself. She had to say it out loud to feel comfortable. Even now was like that. She might be called a healing director, but she was So Yesol, who was more cold and rational than anyone.

“Instead of that… hurry up and stuff all these things inside and take out some paper cups…”

Director So had barged into Dokgo Min’s studio hours before filming and was changing the interior as she pleased.

“No! That’s my most precious cup! It absolutely has to be there as an objet! Aah! My eyes! Aesthetic sense… what’s wrong with this person’s aesthetic sense?”

“Here it is… paper cups with Y* tteokbokki logo…”

Director So transformed the studio of an undeniable genius photographer to look like the one-room apartment of a photography senior who became friends while taking the same liberal arts class. The overall interior was excellent, but she added points here and there that showed traces of a college student’s lifestyle.

“Who else is coming besides Han Yeoreum later? What was that thing you mentioned last time? That male idol?”

“Iden isn’t coming… I deliberately scheduled it for a day when Iden has overseas schedules lined up so he wouldn’t appear…”

“Is that okay? I mean, didn’t you say you’d add points that women would like? Of course, Han Yeoreum is really popular with women too. Just go into the Olive 0 app and her face pops up now. The N company fall pictorial hoodie zip-up and knit cardigan became number 1 in sales recently. Hmm. Anyway.”

Director So, who was stuffing wooden chopsticks into the inside of a drawer to create the appearance of frequently ordering delivery food, smiled slightly.

“If Iden came… the atmosphere would be bright and the picture would look good, but ultimately we couldn’t draw out what the viewers want to see…”

Through her round glasses, the unique atmosphere of someone who had grasped something to the bottom emerged.

“Yeoreum, Gaeul, and Dami all have something in common. What could that be?”

“…They act well?”

“That’s right. All three have screen presence even though they’re newcomers who debuted not long ago. Especially since all three have clear characters, and Yeoreum came from doing theater recently, so her dialogue delivery is unmatched even if you bring other actors… But what would happen if we throw acting beginner Seo Eden in here…?”

Dokgo Min easily imagined Seo Eden who would just become a pretty face. The comment atmosphere too.

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Ah, Eden is so cute hahaha

-10:21 The stuttering hamster… came after watching the clip and I’m on infinite repeat

-The women do all the acting and then some guy comes in to take credit ㅋㅋㅋ so annoying

︎˪Here we go with this flow again.. If it’s only about acting skills, they should only cast middle-aged and older actors lol Do you not know how important promotion is

︎˪Middle-aged actors, stop this nonsense. Are the actresses next to them turning sixty next year? Just admit that your oppa can’t act

If that happened, the long script reading video would inevitably become poison. The reward of creating a comfortable and friendly atmosphere would disappear.

“Iden’s role is scheduled to start after we reveal the work to the world… That fresh heart of having affection for the work despite it being his first acting role and that challenging spirit… that’s one of the things our work wants to say.”

“Then what exactly is this man who’s supposed to come today?”

Ding-dong-.

That’s when it happened. The doorbell of Dokgo Min’s studio was pressed.

“He’s coming… that man…”

Director So, who opened the door, introduced the visitor.

“The one who will be the sole man in our 【Youth Disqualified!】 script reading… He’s also the face of MBS…”

“Ahahaha. How embarrassing.”

It was the MBS Center Director.

* * *

‘It’s successful.’

Watching the script reading, Director So was convinced that her judgment had hit the mark. In 【Youth Disqualified!】, there should be anxiety that high school days might still be continuing, while simultaneously feeling nostalgia for still reminiscing about one’s past self.

‘I chose well even by my own standards…’

The MBS Center Director was a medium who could evoke those two emotions. Director So assigned him the role of homeroom teacher. She wanted to give viewers the gift of truly feeling like we’re creating something together.

A work where you have to do group projects together with teachers and friends from the preparation process. You who will watch, empathize, and laugh along are the completion – that’s exactly 【Youth Disqualified!】.

“I’ve always wanted to try a drama led by female protagonists working together! I’m very honored to do that for the first time with our 【Youth Disqualified!】. Actually, I have a daughter too. Even though she never listens and only causes trouble… Oh, she’ll complain again if she sees this. Anyway, I’ve always had a wish in my heart to create something that she’d find interesting. She has such picky taste. She’s a high school student who has fantasies about college life. But youth isn’t just the fresh, spirited, and vibrant things shown in media. I want to give some preventive shots. Not just to my daughter, but to all the teenagers and twentysomethings in this world. Maybe even to people like me from the 70s and 80s generation whose youth has passed – entrusting you three with a work that can be watched over and over…”

Just feeling the desire to become a reliable adult would comfort viewers.

The Center Director’s appearance – trying not to be rude to actors young enough to be two full zodiac cycles younger while repeatedly checking if it might be too boring – fit exactly into Director So’s plan.

“Right! Think of me as like an entertainment committee chair and feel comfortable… no, is entertainment committee chair too old-fashioned? Then should I say game committee chair in today’s terms? Uhaha… my kid told me not to say things like this anywhere because it was too lame… oh, it was funny? College students really know things. Anyway, I trust you’ll do well.”

The assistant director next to him, who had been listening to the broadcasting station Center Director’s long speech, whispered.

“But what about the broadcast runtime… it seems longer than the actors’… No one’s going to click the video wanting to see this old man, right Director…?”

“It’s not my first or second time doing this… Just fast-forward except for the parts where we can tease him a bit, or just cut it off ambiguously…”

The Center Director was enthusiastically trying to encourage the young actors without noticing the production team’s looks.

“This and that aside… our Center Director…”

“Yeah… definitely our Center Director…”

“Isn’t funny… right…”

Without knowing that they were having this conversation with warm gazes.

‘This project will succeed.’

Director So, who crossed her arms and looked around the harmonious script reading scene once, repeated to herself. This was a long-term project.

‘It will definitely… succeed.’

The assistant director chose to capture everything as content, from the script reading of 【Youth Disqualification】 to OST participation. Just like real club activities at school.

“So then-.”

Finally, the Center Director got to the main point. This was the core agenda of this project.

“Does everyone know how to play any musical instruments?”

MBS was planning to form a band with these three, the lead actors of 【Youth Disqualification】.

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