Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 47

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 47

 

 

”If it’s difficult to say lines, just lie there weakly.”

A camera test obtained through the Casting Director’s strong insistence.

The role Johann will play is a patient with a tragic story – despite his young age, he has a serious liver disease and can only hope for a liver transplant.

‘Just smile weakly without a single line…’

The rest will be handled by that woman, Jessica Chastain who came with Johann.

‘Sleepy. Her acting was quite impressive.’

She debuted as the protagonist Sleepy in the indie film Sleepy that was released last year.

“Got it?”

“Yes.”

Eric Stoltz, who also gave a pleading look toward Jessica Chastain, picks up the megaphone.

Then Jessica Chastain’s atmosphere changes.

Drooping shoulders and sagging eyes, corners of her mouth forcibly pulled up.

‘Mother?’

Johann’s gaze, which had been curiously looking at the large filming camera he’d never seen before, is forcibly turned.

‘No. She’s not my mother.’

But the emotions of affection, love, warmth, joy, and hidden worry that well up in her eyes remind him of her.

She becomes a mother whose entire body is crushed by fatigue.

She transforms into a mother who smiled for her child even when it was difficult.

‘Wow.’

Seeing it in person is an incredible sight.

‘This is acting.’

“Starting the test! Ready, camera roll!”

‘Acting…’

In dictionary terms, it’s the work of an actor expressing a character’s personality, behavior, and such.

If it’s acting in that sense, he’s done it many times.

From ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon’ to ‘Investor Leicester Barber.’

Embracing a being that’s not myself and borrowing everything about that person – in acting terms, a kind of Method Acting.

A technique of acting that aligns the actor with the character in the play.

‘But…’

Seeing Eric Stoltz’s situation and Jessica Chastain acting sincerely, that level doesn’t seem sufficient.

Moreover, his friends are watching too. He couldn’t show a foolish appearance.

So what he’s about to do won’t be acting.

Johann closed his eyes and entered the Library.

“Search. Pediatric liver cirrhosis patient.”

This is Method Acting in its true sense.

Beyond being aligned, becoming that very existence.

Johann reached toward one of the orbs that approached – a small orb the size of two fists, gloomy like the gray sky on a drizzling day.

 

* * *

 

‘Oh?’

“His immersion is fast?”

In an instant, a false smile fills his green eyes.

A smile to reassure his child.

A smile that comes naturally upon seeing his child.

Joy comes to eyes soaked in fatigue.

Her story is forcibly understood.

‘Actors who can act with their eyes are rare.’

It feels like finding a hundred dollars while walking down the street.

‘At this level, that kid won’t say anything…’

“Huh?”

“Shh.”

It’s not just Eric Stoltz and the Assistant Director. Everyone who gathered for the sudden camera test is shaken.

The vitality disappears from Johann’s face.

Slightly furrowed brow.

Breath exhaled with difficulty.

Despair and pain wrapped in the packaging of a smile.

Suddenly, the smell of death mixed with disinfectant brushes past his nose.

And his head turns, meeting desolate eyes.

“We’re ready.”

“A-Action!”

As the sound announcing the start echoes through the studio, Johann looks at the wavering Jessica and grins.

“Hehe. Did Mom come?”

Jessica Chastain grits her teeth.

Seeing the face struggling to smile, her resolve and emotions almost crumble for a moment.

“…Jackson, did you play well while Mom was away?”

Jessica, no, Jackson’s Mother momentarily forgets the day’s fatigue and warmly smiles toward the most precious treasure in the world.

 

* * *

 

“Sob!”

“Cut-!”

A sudden interrupting noise.

However, no one looks for its source.

People whose eyes have all turned red.

It was just an ordinary conversation between a son hospitalized and his mother.

An ordinary conversation where the son talks about what happened at the hospital, and the mother talks about what happened today.

It was just a conversation with such ordinary content, except that the son is a critical patient waiting for a liver transplant.

But it hurt.

It pierced the heart and tore the lungs.

‘My God.’

What are those two?

Who exactly are they to make the staff, trained by watching countless performances, cry, and make veteran actors cry?

They reflexively look for the Casting Director.

The director who constantly opposes Eric Stoltz.

But he’s nowhere to be seen.

“Ha. Of course.”

If he could stand there shamelessly after seeing that performance, that alone would be worthy of praise.

“That’s not acting…”

“Huh?”

“Do dramas these days bring actual patients and guardians to act?”

People blankly stared at the medical consultant for Grey’s Anatomy, an Old Man in his 70s, who had appeared at some point.

 

The ‘Boy’ was a child no different from other boys.

He liked playing and joking around with friends, and when Father came home from work, he liked sitting together on the sofa watching TV. He was a child who would wait only for Father’s return time because he’d get scolded by Mother for watching TV without doing homework.

Sometimes when exciting songs came on, he’d shake his hips, and late at night he’d try to secretly drink soda behind Mother’s back, only to break a cup and wake the whole family.

Until the moment he collapsed clutching his stomach and could no longer run, he was a child whose every single day was joyful and precious.

That was the kind of child he was.

‘Wow.’

As the cut was called, his eyes filled with fatigue and joy shone vividly like someone who had just realized they were alive.

The eyes looking this way contained confusion.

The speed at which she instantly changed from Jackson’s Mother to the actress Jessica Chastain was nothing short of amazing.

‘There was someone like this at Rocky too.’

And Johann wasn’t the only one filled with surprising emotions – Jessica Chastain felt the same way.

‘How… is this possible?’

She had been acting continuously since graduating from Juilliard School in New York. Since last year, she had been working with Sean Penn, and she prided herself on her acting skills being second to none.

‘I even observed the patients’ parents…’

But seeing those desolate eyes, she became Jackson’s Mother, that nameless woman.

She was forcibly immersed and became the person herself.

‘This child made me become that!’

That intense immersion she only felt when filming with Sean Penn. This young child had achieved that.

‘What kind of ridiculous talent is this?’

“You said you’ve done a lot of acting… If you don’t mind me asking, where did you learn?”

Where exactly and from whom had he learned?

She needed to know. That person could help her achieve deeper acting, allowing her to enter that world she had just been submerged in whenever she wanted.

‘The One Who Became a Star.’

Sometimes a restaurant clerk.

Sometimes a homeless person on the street.

Sometimes the CIA spy ‘The One Who Became a Star’ who became an elite lawyer.

‘And the Boy.’

The acting just now was the result of synergy created by these two beings.

But he couldn’t say that.

“Rocky Management.”

“Huh?”

“You can take the advanced acting class at Rocky Management’s Directing Studio.”

“That’s impossible. That class is still ongoing…”

“Kid, are you okay?”

An Old Man suddenly appeared, shining a pen light in Johann’s eyes and checking the color of his tongue by making him open his mouth.

‘Hospital smell.’

A real doctor.

Johann frowned, then realized why the Old Man was making a fuss and took control of his body back from the ‘Boy’ and ‘The One Who Became a Star’.

The fingers that had been secretly pressing his stomach stopped, and his furrowed brow, which had been scrunched up trying to endure the rising pain, relaxed.

The hallucination of pain quickly fading away. The eyes that had been dying in despair began to come alive.

“I don’t have any pain.”

“Oh, it’s not good to force yourself to endure pain, son.”

“I had a detailed examination recently. The results were normal.”

Not the growth plate examination, but the tests conducted when he came down from the Forest. Although his inflammation levels were a bit high, everything else was normal.

“Doesn’t it hurt here? Ma’am, does this child usually…”

“It hurts when you press like that.”

“I’m not a ma’am either.”

“…Strange.”

He couldn’t understand it.

The appearance just moments ago was definitely that of a pediatric cirrhosis patient hospitalized in the Pediatric Ward, and the woman beside him was exactly like a guardian working two or three jobs to somehow cover the enormous hospital bills.

Then there was only one answer.

“Haha! Both the kid and the young lady have good Observational Power!”

Acting skills that could fool even a doctor too experienced to enter the Operating Room was a bonus.

“I hear that often. Thank you for the compliment.”

“Hahaha! Good. I’m glad you’re not in pain.”

It really was fortunate. There was nothing more painful than watching a dying patient from the side.

“If you get sick, go to the hospital… Do you have insurance?”

“I have expensive coverage.”

Because Larry was high-income, he couldn’t qualify for Medicaid for Children or CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), so they had very expensive insurance.

It was from the insurance company with the highest payout rate among various insurers.

“That’s fortunate too. Go to the hospital right away if you get sick.”

After the Old Man roughly ruffled his hair and stepped back, Johann got down from the hospital bed.

“Did I pass the test?”

“…Makeup team-!”

It seemed like he had passed.

 

* * *

 

“Hahaha! Well done!”

Does this child know?

‘That his acting just now gave me complete control over future casting!’

The Casting Director who had been opposing him at every turn.

Thanks to Johann and Jessica Chastain’s acting, at least for the LA Studio filming, there would be no more fights over casting issues.

Since the story was set in Seattle, Grey’s Anatomy filmed all scenes except the Hospital and its surroundings in Seattle.

Of course, he didn’t intend to do the casting himself, but he now had justification to boycott actors the Casting Director randomly pushed forward.

Plus, he seemed to have memorized the entire script.

Where did such a remarkable child come from?

“If only you do this well in the actual filming…”

“Kid!”

Johann turned his head and looked pleased.

The Music Director he had met with Eric Stoltz.

“Could you sing that song from before? No, could you play it with this?”

The Music Director held out an acoustic guitar.

The faded body and peeling paint on the neck were impressive.

“Hey, Dieter. We agreed not to talk about that.”

“Be quiet!”

The song he heard at the Hamburger Shop wouldn’t leave his mind. That song that had been so painfully difficult before brightening up.

No matter how many times he thought about it, that song was perfect as the theme song for this episode, for Jackson.

“Am I wrong?!”

“Well, that’s true, but…”

It was a tribute song Johann had made for Larry. He couldn’t use something like that in a drama.

Of course, that was the surface reason – the real issue was copyright.

Although Johann had said he composed it himself at the time, it was presumably a song mostly composed by some skilled and good-natured composer.

If they used something like that commercially, it would definitely cause troublesome problems.

Eric Stoltz couldn’t help but be annoyed by the Music Director who kept pestering without understanding this, and Johann slyly rolled his eyes at his disapproving expression.

“Hmm. Then how about this song?”

Johann took the guitar and played “Journey on a Dream Ship.”

The expressions of the Music Director and Eric Stoltz, who had frowned at Johann suddenly changing the subject, gradually relaxed.

“…Oh.”

He had been wrong. This song, not that tribute song, was Jackson’s theme song.

A song that seemed to perfectly express Jackson’s feelings of wanting to go anywhere but being unable to.

“Wh-whose song is this?”

“It’s a song I sang. It was also released as a music track.”

Contract issues could be worked out with Rocky Management.

“Eric!”

“Ugh. Do that then.”

“Right! Then I’m counting on you!”

Eric Stoltz shook his head at the sight of the Music Director running off and disappearing, then patted Johann’s shoulder saying he was counting on him for the main shoot as well before walking away.

“Johann, you’re not sick like last time, are you?”

Emily’s eyes were red as she approached only after the two had left.

Johann had really looked like a sick person just moments ago.

“I’m fine. It was just acting.”

“…You can’t be sick.”

“Yeah. I won’t be.”

They entered the makeup room like that.

And soon Eric Stoltz was summoned again.

 

“P, Producer!”

The Staff member who was helping Johann change into a patient gown rushed out of the makeup room. Jessica, who was sitting nearby getting her makeup done, also looked on with shocked eyes.

But…

“Wow!”

“Whoa!”

Emily and Flash marveled at seeing Johann transformed to look like a real patient.

“You, you guys aren’t bothered by this?”

“By what?”

“The scars on your friend’s body…”

“Hm? Johann’s always been like that though?”

“Stupid Flash. Do you happen to know about the Wolf Boy from the Rocky Mountains?”

“Ah…? N, no way, you mean?”

The moment Johann nodded, Eric Stoltz came running in, and Johann had to explain about the scars covering his body once again.

“If you need any help…”

“You can call 911 right now if you want.”

“Huh…”

His eyes lit up as he looked at Johann’s body in amazement.

“Kid.”

“It’s okay. You can use them.”

“Huh?”

“You got some idea because of my scars, didn’t you?”

These were scars he had no intention of hiding anyway.

“Oh, kid. That’s…”

“Instead, can I wear the clothes I prepared?”

“Huh?”

“These patient gowns are included in the hospital bill too. Wouldn’t that be a burden for Jackson’s poor Mother too?”

“…Haha! You analyzed the character well. Alright. Do that. Ms. Actress? You’ll receive the added dialogue soon.”

“Oh, yes. I understand.”

No matter how excellent his acting was, after just a few words with a minor role actor, dialogue was suddenly being added.

Jessica Chastain was bewildered by this situation.

‘I need to expose it when I can expose it.’

H&M, that is.

That was her duty as an exclusive model.

‘So then…’

“I brought clothes for Ms. Chastain too, would you like to try them on?”

H&M clothes sold 10 years ago.

Clothes that had been rolling around in the depths of H&M West Coast Branch’s clothing warehouse.

“…Huh?”

Jessica blinked her eyes.

 

* * *

 

-Got it?

The Black Woman frowned as she recalled the phone call that came while on her way to the studio.

“Bailey!”

“…Yang!”

The Black Woman smiled upon spotting the Asian Middle-aged Woman approaching her.

Cristina Yang and Miranda Bailey, important characters in the show.

Among these women who called each other by their character names to avoid mistakes during filming, the Asian woman, Yang, smiled deviously at the Black Woman Bailey.

“You don’t know what happened at the studio earlier, do you?”

That arrogant Casting Director got served by Eric Stoltz, who’s just a contract Producer.

“My goodness. Really? How?”

The Casting Director who acted superior every time they met, saying he was the one who cast her and subtly expecting something in return. Since it was somewhat true, no one could say anything, making him someone all the Actors disliked.

Yang explained what had just happened with glee, and Bailey was greatly surprised.

‘So that’s why that person!’

The Casting Director who had called on the way, telling her to use ad-libs or whatever to humiliate him and bring him down, saying it was time to repay that favor.

“You should probably brace yourself too, Bailey.”

Miranda Bailey, a surgical resident. She would be the attending physician in charge of Jackson, that is Johann, along with Yang.

“Really?”

‘…Sigh. He’s just a minor role actor anyway.’

Yang smiled meaningfully at Bailey, who seemed unconvinced.

“You’ll soon understand what I mean.”

“Scene number 16! 10 minutes until filming starts!”

“…Let’s go.”

Scene number 16 was where they would meet Johann and Jessica’s mother and son.

Standing on the corridor set where cameras and lighting equipment were set up, they could hear bustling from inside the hospital room set.

And soon Eric Stoltz’s call rang out.

The two, who had already been standing by as fellow and resident, stepped toward each other.

“Doctor!”

“Never mind. I saw it too.”

Miranda Bailey, who was a fearsome figure who was tough on Interns but more sincere than anyone with patients, and Cristina Yang, who possessed cold rationality and seized what she wanted without caring about others’ opinions for the sake of success.

Another trial had befallen them today.

A 10-year-old Pediatric Patient who showed no possibility of recovery despite multiple tests, with liver transplant being the only answer.

Since this was in front of the hospital room where such a patient was admitted, Cristina Yang, who had silenced resident Miranda Bailey, entered through the open hospital room door.

Then…

Strum!

“Mom, I’m okay. It doesn’t hurt.”

“Yes. I know. My child will soon… Doctor!”

A child playing a shabby guitar with a mischievous smile and a mother who seemed to be singing along with a warm smile to reassure her child, but collapsed the moment she spotted them.

‘He wants me to ruin their acting? …Is that even possible?’

Actors recognize other actors.

She felt like she might get devoured while trying to devour.

Miranda Bailey, who instantly understood what Cristina Yang had meant earlier, snapped to attention.

‘If I mess around here, I’ll be the one getting criticized!’

By Eric Stoltz and all the Staff and Actors.

It was the moment when a chilling wind began to blow through her heart.

Murmur murmur.

Suddenly commotion breaks out in the studio.

Miranda Bailey turns her head and discovers a woman wearing sunglasses, her eyes widening in shock.

‘Shonda Lynn Rhimes!’

The original creator and executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy had come to visit the LA Studio.

 

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