I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 44

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Episode 44

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Before going to the provincial area location shoot, I thought.

“…Where should I start?”

When I appeared as an extra, I didn’t have to worry about anything from transportation to accommodation. But now I had to move separately and.

“…Hair and makeup. What do I do.”

Since I don’t have an entertainment agency, staff was the problem. How do I solve this.

“Do people who work at the broadcasting station makeup room… come along? Or not?”

After thinking for a moment, I contacted Myeong Jeha without hesitation.

-Staff? That’s what you’re worried about?

“Of course… The only makeup artist I know is Director Dokgo Gyeol, but I can’t ask her to go on a business trip with me! And I don’t know how to find an artist among strangers who can go on business trips either.”

Even searching on X doesn’t show that kind of thing. Well, he’s had an entertainment agency from the beginning, so maybe he doesn’t know about this stuff? When I was about to give up with a sigh, Myeong Jeha said.

-Then try saying ‘please help me.’

“Yes! Please help me!!!”

Pleasant laughter burst out from the other end of the phone.

-From now on, follow exactly what you hear.

Myeong Jeha told me what I needed to do in a voice mixed with laughter.

“So… those two will really stick with me as staff?”

-It’s real, I tell you.

I couldn’t believe it, but for now I did as Myeong Jeha instructed.

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Dokgo Min was only waiting for the end of the semester. Summer. The best time for shooting in natural light. Blue sea, crisp and refreshing cool tones, green light there…

“Unnie, I got two shoots scheduled?”

This can’t be. It was because of Dokgo Min’s overwhelming aesthetic sense. She chose her muse so well that it seemed like everyone in the world found out in less than half a year.

Dokgo Min sat on the studio floor in despair.

“Han Yeoreum’s twenty-year-old summer only comes once…”

But I can’t capture this? That’s ridiculous. Tears welled up in Dokgo Min’s eyes as she had been planning summer peach after the white lily and phalaenopsis orchid work last time.

“The location shoot is for the role of a writer who moved to a rural village. She said I just need to act naturally in comfortable clothes with a natural feeling…”

Han Yeoreum’s words pierced into the ears of the absent-minded Dokgo Min. Rural village. Comfortable clothes. Natural feeling.

A scene appeared in Dokgo Min’s mind. A white t-shirt made of flowing material, hair tied up in a ponytail, Han Yeoreum with lightly flushed cheeks basking in the sunlight, sky blue ice cream in her hands…

It was when Dokgo Min’s stats were about to sparkle.

“But I probably won’t look good on screen, right? I saw there are no shops near the filming set.”

“? Why’s that?”

“I don’t have an entertainment agency or dedicated staff. Well, if it’s urgent, I’ll have to go to a beauty salon.”

Beauty salon.

The moment she heard those words, Dokgo Min’s pleasant scene shattered completely. A crack appeared in the creative soul of an artist who wanted to shoot anything and everything.

“Director Dokgo Gyeol can’t come with me. I’ll have to manage well on my own…”

Han Yeoreum’s pitiful and pathetic beggar strategy attacked Dokgo Min in a new version. The image of Han Yeoreum touched by beauty salon hands appeared in Dokgo Min’s mind.

A Saemaul logo t-shirt with a stretched neck, frizzy hair, Han Yeoreum basking in the sunlight with heavy shading drawn on her face, makgeolli in her hands…

“Aaah!!!”

Dokgo Min rushed out. Behind such Dokgo Min, Han Yeoreum smiled.

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At that moment, Dokgo Gyeol was uploading Yeoreum’s photos to SNS. It was Yeoreum with glamorous makeup for the Influencer 1 role in not long ago.

“Even I think the color combination was too good… Good good.”

She was imagining the movie being released soon, with everyone looking at Han Yeoreum and exclaiming ‘As expected of Dokgo Gyeol.’

Bang-!!!

Dokgo Min rushed in frantically. She didn’t seem to be in her right mind.

“Unnie. Unnie unnie unnie. Go on a business trip. You have to go on a business trip!!! You have to go on a business trip!!!”

Dokgo Gyeol answered indifferently.

“How much?”

Originally, a money bird’s questions always started with the number 0 and ended with 0.

Dokgo Min rolled on the floor. Since this wasn’t her first or second time doing this, Dokgo Gyeol didn’t even care. And exactly 3 seconds later.

“Aaah!!!”

Dokgo Gyeol, who received the terrible prediction of Han Yeoreum’s appearance from Dokgo Min, screamed together.

From the shock that was too great, Dokgo Gyeol began to suffer. Money bird Dokgo Gyeol had already completed her investment by opening a 50% discount and deferred payment system for rookie Han Yeoreum.

“No. That can’t happen. Such terribleness…”

Dokgo Gyeol pondered. Just the fact that Cheongdam’s number one Dokgo Gyeol was following a rookie on a business trip already looked bad. Since there was no entertainment agency, it was obvious she’d have to run around doing errands.

‘My market value… How hard I worked to raise it…’

Maintaining availability was also one of the duties of being number one. Dokgo Gyeol took a deep breath for a moment and thought of money to calm her heart. Dokgo Gyeol, who pressed down her cousin rolling on the floor with one foot to hold her in place, thought of Han Yeoreum.

‘Now, if this Dokgo Gyeol follows a rookie with nothing on a business trip… everyone will think I’m crazy, but.’

The view count of was approaching 7 million for the final episode. ALAB, which Yeoreum advertised, took first place in Olive 0 app sales.

‘In other words.’

Director Gong Mujin revised the scenario for Yeoreum, and rumors were rampant that broadcasting industry money friend Jegal Rok was keeping an eye on Han Yeoreum.

‘My eye for caring for an actor who will become a star from her rookie days will be revealed!’

Money bird Dokgo Gyeol decided on the business trip like that.

Thus, complete rookie Han Yeoreum, who didn’t even have an entertainment agency, managed to secure Cheongdam’s number one makeup artist as her staff.

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The first scene of the location shoot was arriving at the front of the house dragging a heavy suitcase. After checking the movement once in rehearsal, we immediately went into filming.

“Yeoreum- standby!”

I took a deep breath. A tired and exhausting life. It was the first start of coming down to escape people who used me like a tool. I put in my eyes the appropriate fatigue of leaving home in the morning and arriving at an unfamiliar place.

“Take 1-!”

Clack- The sound of the slate hitting echoed through the film set.

“Ready, action!”

Director So’s voice was heard, and I gripped the hand holding the suitcase tightly. Enough for veins to show on the back of my hand.

Rattle- rattle-.

The sound of suitcase wheels rolling with difficulty on the unpaved road was heard. I dragged the suitcase that was as big as my body with great effort.

Eventually I stopped walking at the place where I had matched the movement, and looked at the door with a tired gaze. Since it was a scene proceeding with a long take, it didn’t stop here.

I opened the front gate and dragged the suitcase in.

Clank-.

The suitcase wheel got caught on the iron gate threshold. I casually put the top of my foot under the bottom of the suitcase and lifted it up. So I could distribute the heavy weight.

And finally.

“Phew…”

My space. A place where only I exist.

Then, as if some tension was released, I slowly relaxed the strength in the hand gripping the suitcase handle. I changed my tired gaze to one containing faint anticipation.

“Cut-!”

Director So, who had been looking at the monitor, shouted.

Only then did I turn my gaze to look at the filming team.

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