NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 129

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Episode 129. White Blood – Script Reading

 

Director Hwang Min-kwon was the first to start.

 

 

 

“Hello everyone. I’m Hwang Min-kwon, directing this ‘White Blood’ project. Let’s not fear failure and create a work full of character.”

 

 

 

As the director expressed his aspirations, applause echoed throughout the conference room.

 

His uncharacteristically serious demeanor looked quite awkward.

 

 

 

‘Director Hwang has his normal moments too.’

 

 

 

Knowing Director Hwang Min-kwon’s usual personality, Yeon-woo smiled slightly.

 

Yeon-woo wasn’t the only one struggling to hold back laughter.

 

 

 

He could see Director Jung Yo-han covering his mouth among the staff in the back.

 

 

 

Then Writer Kim Jin-ju stood up.

 

 

 

“I’m Writer Kim Jin-ju, who wrote the story. I’m really confident about this project.”

 

 

 

Waaa─.

 

 

 

As Writer Kim Jin-ju spoke confidently, applause and cheers could be heard from around.

 

 

 

Next was Yeon-woo’s turn.

 

He was going to just give a simple greeting and sit down, but since the writer and director had shown confidence, it seemed better to continue boosting morale.

 

 

 

‘Hmm, what should I say to boost morale.’

 

 

 

After thinking for a moment, Yeon-woo slowly stood up from his seat.

 

 

 

“For this project, I···.”

 

 

 

After pausing briefly and looking around, Yeon-woo continued.

 

 

 

“I plan to film with the determination to achieve Netflix’s worldwide number one ranking. I ask for your support, senior and junior colleagues, and our excellent staff team.”

 

 

 

Ooooh─.

 

 

 

The attendees admired his bold aspirations while smiling slightly.

 

 

 

Actress Lee Ju-mi, appearing in the role of Jo Dan this time, also applauded while whispering to a close actor friend sitting next to her.

 

 

 

“But you know what. Doesn’t it seem like he might actually do it?”

 

“···Right, is it because of his aura? It really seems like he’ll hit number one.”

 

 

 

If someone else had said this, they would have scoffed at such excessive confidence, but since he was the first Korean actor to win the Golden Bear Award, it didn’t seem like a completely unrealistic story.

 

 

 

As Yeon-woo finished speaking and sat down, Han Byeol, the youngest cast member, stood up.

 

 

 

“Hello! I’m Han Byeol! Han is my surname, and Byeol is my given name. It’s a single character!”

 

 

 

Everyone smiled seeing her bow her head with her twin ponytails, say only what she needed to, and quickly sit back down.

 

 

 

After the other cast members finished their greetings, everyone took out their scripts.

 

 

 

“Well then, shall we get in sync?”

 

 

 

Hearing Director Hwang Min-kwon’s words, the assistant director called out.

 

 

 

“We will now begin the ‘White Blood’ script reading.”

 

 

 

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“A man wrapped in iron chains was dragged into a dome-shaped building roughly constructed of mud.

 

Inside the building was a complete mess with puddles of water everywhere.”

 

 

 

Although they were currently in LN Entertainment’s main conference room, the actors immersed themselves by imagining the scene described in these script lines.

 

 

 

A veteran actress playing a minor role in the second row started things off.

 

 

 

“Now, quiet! We will now begin the trial of the outsider.”

 

 

 

The venue, which had been noisy like a market, suddenly became quiet.

 

 

 

Clang!

 

 

 

As the man who appeared to be a prisoner was dragged to the center, everyone in the building focused on him.

 

Except for the man who was dragged in, everyone was wearing red clothes.

 

 

 

Instead of the red blood cells wearing red clothes, the extras sitting in the second row began their lines.

 

 

 

“That must be the outsider.”

 

“I’ve never seen an outsider before.”

 

“Well, according to Aunt Nora, this flood happened because of that outsider, right?”

 

 

 

Then the veteran actress playing the judge raised her hand high among the murmuring people.

 

Since the script said she drew and raised a sword high, she made a hand gesture as if gripping something.

 

 

 

“The reason for the heavy rain in our village is because this outsider came. Therefore, we sentence the outsider to death!”

 

 

 

At that moment, a cheerful voice echoed through the venue, cutting through the noise of the murmuring extras.

 

 

 

“Wait a minute! It hasn’t been proven yet that the outsider’s arrival and the flood are related!”

 

 

 

It was only one line, but her voice projection was quite good.

 

Yeon-woo glanced at the girl named Han Byeol sitting next to him.

 

 

 

‘She’s young but her voice projection is solid. Not bad.’

 

 

 

The character ‘Ella’ was a high-importance role that appeared continuously from the beginning of episode 1 to the end of the final episode 12, so they must have put effort into the casting.

 

 

 

After hearing Han Byeol’s voice as Ella, another extra in the second row raised their hand, and the Veteran Actress delivered the next line.

 

 

 

“You there who raised your hand, speak.”

 

“Yes, Your Honor. I saw with my own eyes that Ella brought food to that foreigner while he was imprisoned! She must have grown attached to him during that time.”

 

“Is that true?”

 

 

 

After that, several exchanges continued between Ella defending the protagonist Jeong Do-jin and the judge trying to execute him.

 

 

 

Now finally, it was time for Jeong Do-jin, the protagonist of this series – in other words, Yeon-woo’s turn.

 

 

 

The doctor ‘Jeong Do-jin’ had entered the world inside the body to treat his younger sibling’s leukemia, and was fundamentally a different class of being from the cells originally in the body.

 

He had the power to break free from the iron chains wrapped around his body and leave leisurely at any time, but was deliberately staying captured for some reason.

 

 

 

‘The protagonist finds this trial annoying right now, so I need to base his psychological state on a somewhat arrogant feeling.’

 

 

 

And to heal his younger sibling’s body, he had to go to the highest place in this world.

 

Higher than the sky.

 

The supreme central organ that integrates the nervous system.

 

He had to cross dimensions countless times to reach the brain of this world.

 

 

 

‘Then he should be harboring some anger inside. He’s in a hurry to get going but these annoying obstacles keep getting in his way.’

 

 

 

Arrogant and even angry.

 

But since he’s the protagonist, he can’t appear negative on screen.

 

 

 

‘Do-jin would feel a bit curious about why this red blood cell called ‘Ella’ is defending him, a foreigner, and I need to wrap the surface of his lines with that.’

 

 

 

Yeon-woo instantly immersed himself as Do-jin and opened his mouth.

 

 

 

“Village Chief.”

 

 

 

A heavy, sticky voice projection was heard, completely opposite to Ryu Yeon-woo’s usual image.

 

It was a voice that seemed to dominate this space in an instant.

 

The actors’ gazes naturally focused on him due to the unexpected feeling.

 

 

 

“You said my coming here was the cause of disaster, so wouldn’t it be best if I quietly left this place?”

 

 

 

Come to think of it, the script said ‘Judge’ not ‘Village Chief.’

 

Writer Kim Jin-ju nodded slightly while listening to Yeon-woo’s line and made notes in the script.

 

 

 

‘I see. If it’s Do-jin in the story, he wouldn’t care whether this old man from a small Red Blood Cell Village was a judge or village chief.’

 

 

 

She was surprised by the boldness of starting differently from the script lines right from the first line of his first scene.

 

And situationally, calling him village chief rather than judge seemed more plausible.

 

 

 

“What? That cannot be. If you go elsewhere, you’ll cause harm there too.”

 

“Then this place will become where I died. That fact won’t change even after a hundred years, so this land will be cursed for generations to come.”

 

 

 

At Do-jin’s words, the residents in red clothes stirred.

 

 

 

“That’s right. If it’s a place where a cursed foreigner died, wouldn’t it be cursed forever?”

 

“Right. I think it would be better if he just quietly left.”

 

 

 

As the murmuring grew louder, the village chief’s eyebrows twitched and he drew his sword again.

 

 

 

“Silence! Are you being deceived by the silver tongue of this cursed one! The will of God is not such!”

 

 

 

Crack crack crack.

 

 

 

Then Do-jin tensed his body and the iron chains wrapped tightly around him shattered and fell with a clatter.

 

 

 

“The will of God is not such? You understand God’s will? Just a mere countryside village chief?”

 

“Wh-what are you doing! Restrain that bastard again!”

 

“You’re quite an interesting cell.”

 

 

 

An indescribable energy rose like a heat haze above Do-jin’s body after he broke the iron chains.

 

The red blood cells froze like rabbits before a tiger, sensing a completely different class of existence.

 

 

 

Then Do-jin heard a woman’s sighing voice along with noise like from a radio.

 

 

 

Crackle!

 

 

 

Finally it was time for Jung Su-yeon, who took on the narrator role, to appear with just her voice.

 

 

 

– You don’t have time to leisurely chat with such low-level cells right now, you know? Hurry up and leave! The White Blood Army will come charging in soon.

 

“Got it. I’m going, I’m going.”

 

 

 

While climbing up to the Femoral, his wanted level had increased from shaking off the pursuing White Blood Army, and he had deliberately gotten captured in this remote Red Blood Cell Village prison to reset it.

 

 

 

Then, the Assistant Director shouted loudly.

 

 

 

“One wall collapses! Rumble!”

 

 

 

According to the script, it was time for the White Blood Army to appear as one wall collapsed.

 

 

 

“Already?”

 

 

 

Androids made of silver-gray metal.

 

Their appearance clearly didn’t match the surrounding era.

 

 

 

“Kyaaah! Run away!”

 

“Move! Open the door!”

 

 

 

A chaotic atmosphere was created with the extras’ screams.

 

 

 

At the same time, the mechanical android White Blood Army detected Do-jin and leaped to attack him.

 

 

 

Clang─!

 

 

 

Do-jin blocked the white blood cell’s arm flying at him with a metallic clashing sound using his bare hands, then grabbed the white blood cell in front of him with his other hand and threw it hard toward the area where there were no red blood cells.

 

 

 

Then, dodging the attacking white blood cells with fluid movements, he went outside the courtroom through the wall they had broken down.

 

 

 

At that moment, the narrator’s voice was heard again.

 

 

 

– You mustn’t kill the white blood cells! If the danger level that went down while hiding in prison goes back up, it’ll be troublesome.

 

 

 

Of course, that’s just what was written in the script lines – in reality, it was a quiet conference room.

 

However, Yeon-woo’s voice could be heard, breathing heavily as if he was really being chased and fighting.

 

 

 

“I know! Huff, I know!”

 

 

 

Hearing Yeon-woo’s acting with precise breath control, the scene written in the script lines seemed to play vividly in the other actors’ minds as well.

 

 

 

As Do-jin urgently shouted and headed toward the village center, a voice came from behind.

 

 

 

It was Han Byeol playing Ella.

 

 

 

“Mister! This way! The iron horse you rode here!”

 

 

 

When he looked back, he saw Ella urgently gesturing with her hands.

 

As Do-jin changed direction and accelerated toward Ella, she ran into the alley as if guiding him.

 

 

 

“It’s inside that stable!”

 

 

 

This scene was the one Yeon-woo had practiced using the spare time before the housewarming party.

 

 

 

The scene where he had immersed himself alone, sitting on the stool chair in the acting practice room at home, as if riding the captured white blood cell’s magnetic levitation bike.

 

 

 

As he hurriedly got on and tried to start it, Ella quickly climbed on behind him.

 

 

 

“What? Why are you following me?”

 

“Take me with you too!”

 

 

 

Do-jin frowned at Ella’s sudden demand to be taken along.

 

 

 

“I’m in a hurry. No baggage allowed.”

 

“Ah! I gave you food! You have to pay for the meal.”

 

 

 

Yeon-woo and Han Byeol delivered their lines as if gears were meshing together.

 

Perhaps because they worked well together, sounds of admiration could be heard from around them.

 

 

 

Rumble.

 

 

 

The white blood cells that had caught up broke down the stable wall and entered, and there was no more time to delay.

 

 

 

Whirring─.

 

 

 

The engine ignited with the operating sound and the motorcycle slightly lifted into the air.

 

Having no choice, Do-jin started off.

 

 

 

“Hold on tight!”

 

“Yes!”

 

 

 

The motorcycle carrying Do-jin and Ella quickly left the village, avoiding the red-clothed red blood cells running around in confusion and the attacks of the pursuing white blood cells.

 

 

 

“But do you know where I’m going?”

 

“Up there!”

 

 

 

Seeing Ella’s finger pointing at the sky, Do-jin shook his head.

 

 

 

“Where did you hear that from.”

 

“I heard the men coming out of the bar talking when I went to deliver oxygen to the femoral. They said a man going against the sky was coming from the fibula.”

 

 

 

Indeed, the man who came up from the fibula, that is, the calf bone – it was correct that they were referring to him.

 

However, Jeong Do-jin had come from even lower than the calf.

 

From the toe tips, the very bottom of this world.

 

 

 

Do-jin sighed and looked up at the sky, speaking to the narrator who would be somewhere up there, or even higher.

 

 

 

“Narrator. So you’re saying there’s a direct path to the heart if I just get past the thigh?”

 

– Cardiac.

 

“Cardiac means heart.”

 

 

 

All the names in this world were like this.

 

 

 

Heart was Cardiac.

 

Thigh was Femoral.

 

Calf bone was Fibula.

 

 

 

Thanks to the place names that directly used medical terms, Jeong Do-jin, whose main job was being a doctor, could tell where he had arrived.

 

 

 

Seeing Do-jin conversing with the narrator, Ella riding behind him tilted her head.

 

 

 

“Mister, who are you talking to?”

 

“Why am I a mister.”

 

“If it’s the path to cardiac, I know it.”

 

“What? You know it?”

 

 

 

At that moment, the assistant director in reality shouted.

 

 

 

“Alright, let’s cut and continue. Good work, actors.”

 

 

 

Only then did the actors return to reality from the immersive world inside the body.

 

Each stretched and began chatting with the actors beside them.

 

 

 

“Wow… Ryu Yeon-woo really is different. My lines ended long ago, but I was watching tensely without even breathing.”

 

“That girl Han Byeol is no joke either, right? Could you do that kind of tiki-taka with Actor Ryu?”

 

“No way, I feel like all my dialogue timing would get eaten up.”

 

 

 

Not only had CG not been applied yet, but it wasn’t even on a set.

 

 

 

The actors who thought they wouldn’t be able to immerse themselves in the unfamiliar fantasy genre since this wasn’t even filming but just a script reading experienced something amazing—just sitting and reading their lines, yet it felt like a video was playing in their heads.

 

 

 

“Honestly, when I heard it was fantasy in Korea, I thought it was a reckless challenge, but maybe it could work…?”

 

 

 

Hearing such voices from the supporting actors, Jung Yo-han, the rising Hollywood CG director sitting in the back row, adjusted his glasses and grinned.

 

 

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