There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 57
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Episode 57
After the light greetings between both sides ended.
Kim Writer asked with interested eyes.
“Did you read the entire script by any chance?”
“Yes! It was so, so interesting!”
“There must have been a huge amount. Wasn’t it difficult? There are many difficult words too.”
At Kim Writer’s words, Yewon smiled brightly and shook her head.
“I read it together with Uncle, so it was fine. Uncle explained all the words I didn’t know!”
“Ah?”
Kim Writer looked at Doha with surprise, as if this was unexpected.
He must be busy. He seems like a very caring uncle.
I thought it was just his broadcast image….
Kim Writer looked Yewon over again with half-belief.
“Since you read it all, may I ask you a question? What do you think of the character Seolhwa? Didn’t you feel sorry for her?”
This was actually a trap-like question.
Kim Writer deliberately asked this question to all actors auditioning for Seolhwa’s role.
At first glance, Seolhwa might seem pitiful. Since she had to live hiding her gender.
However.
‘If you see Seolhwa as simply a pitiful tragic heroine, the character interpretation is completely wrong.’
Kim Writer didn’t want to define Seolhwa as simply a ‘woman disguised as a man.’ That was just one device, and she hoped the actor playing Seolhwa would see something deeper.
“Hmm. Of course, everyone would probably say Seolhwa is pitiful. Because she was born a daughter but has to live as a son.”
Just as Kim Writer was about to feel a little disappointed at this answer she’d heard countless times.
“But I don’t think that way!”
“!”
Yewon added firmly.
“I don’t think Seolhwa considers herself pitiful. I think she’d rather spend that time saving the country!”
At those words, a gleam flashed in Kim Writer’s eyes.
‘Well, look at this…?’
That’s exactly the heart of Seolhwa I was thinking of.
Kim Writer deliberately didn’t respond and quietly listened to Yewon’s words.
“In the script, I never saw Seolhwa worrying or hesitating. She always tried to save the Crown Prince right away.”
“….”
“So I… think Seolhwa is a very, very cool protagonist. Even more than the Crown Prince.”
Silence flowed.
Kim Writer got goosebumps and rubbed her arms.
In fact, she had written the story thinking of the female protagonist ‘Seolhwa’ as more of a main character than the male protagonist.
However, except for the director and Kim Writer, most people didn’t catch that part.
She never expected that a mere 7-year-old child would interpret the character she wrote so perfectly.
Even when Seolhwa’s backstory was so tragic that adult actors interpreted her as ‘completely a tragic heroine’ in a flat way – for such a young child to make this level of interpretation?
Kim Writer glanced at CEO Park.
Did other adults perhaps give her hints beforehand? To say this?
However.
The two adults were also amazed by Yewon’s interpretation and were just proudly looking at her with eyes that said ‘Our child is this clever. Our child is just so precious we can’t stand it.’
…If that’s acting, those people could be lead actors too….
“Then… can you show us? Your acting?”
“!”
At the director’s sudden request, Kim Writer was flustered.
Wait, just moments ago this person was almost half-resigned to accepting Future Entertainment’s request…?
Is this okay?
Kim Writer was uncertain but didn’t stop the director.
In fact, she was curious too. About Yewon’s acting.
“Yes! Which scene should I do?”
“Hmm. I suppose… that scene would be good, right Kim Writer? That, you know….”
“The scene where Seolhwa sees through the Crown Prince’s identity?”
“Yes, that one. Yewon. Can you do that scene? Looking at the script-”
“I can do it without looking at the script!”
“!”
She can do it… without looking at the script?
“Does that mean… you already memorized the lines?”
This was impossible. How could she have memorized the lines knowing which scene they’d ask for out of all those scenes?
Director Choi and Kim Writer looked at Yewon in confusion.
Is this a child’s bluff, something like that?
“Hehe. I couldn’t memorize other scenes’ lines, but I memorized that scene because Seolhwa was so, so cool that I practiced it with Uncle.”
“!”
“…It’s true.”
Doha, who was beside her, confirmed with a face red as if about to burst.
…Really?
“…We practiced it together 10 times.”
10, 10 times?
That exact scene? Did they read our minds?
The two production staff members nodded in confusion.
“Well… if you memorized the lines, that’s good for us. Then right away….”
The director requested with a trembling voice.
“Yes!”
Yewon smiled inwardly.
How did Yewon know they would ask for this exact scene?
That was-
‘Because Jeyeon complained so much about it in my past life.’
It was thanks to her past life memories.
‘She grumbled that they gave her such a difficult scene for her first audition that she couldn’t even say her lines properly and was embarrassed.’
That was exactly this scene.
And Yewon’s prediction had hit exactly right.
* * *
“Huh, how strange? Why would the master of the East Palace, who should be living warmly and fully fed with good meat in that palace full of noble people, come all the way to this marketplace?”
A voice that chattered as if humming a song, yet carried subtle wariness and curiosity.
Yewon’s eyes sparkled as she looked Doha up and down as if seeing the ‘Crown Prince.’
“No matter how I look at it, you don’t seem like someone who would eat, sleep, and drink in the same place as commoners like us.”
Solid vocalization that was hard to believe came from a child’s vocal cords.
“…I am not the Crown Prince.”
Then Doha answered with an awkward voice.
“Yes, yes. Of course you would say that. Hey guys, it seems he’s come in disguise. Let’s step aside!”
Yewon said that and giggled while waving her hand as if talking to commoner friends.
“…Really, I said I’m not the Crown Prince.”
When Doha said it once more, Yewon openly snorted.
“Really now. You’re traveling with two strong men who have ‘Eui-wi Office’ (*the office in charge of guarding the Crown Prince) written all over their faces. What do you mean you’re not the Crown Prince?”
Yewon said that while making a mischievous expression.
The adults watching Yewon from the side were all shocked.
Doha wasn’t surprised again since he had seen this scene throughout their acting practice, but the other adults were different.
These were really long lines for a 7-year-old child to say.
They weren’t short-breath lines either, and since it was a historical drama, all the lines were long and difficult, but the sight of her reciting them smoothly without a moment’s hesitation was truly an amazing spectacle.
Especially Kim Writer, who had written this dialogue herself, was the most surprised.
She had written it following her heart, but to think there was actually a child actor who could pull it off in one take!
Kim Writer had been prepared to simplify the dialogue appropriately if the child actor couldn’t keep up on set, which made her even more delighted.
Where could you find a 7-year-old actor who could digest everything as written?
Though they had set the age at 7, honestly, 【Flower of the East Palace】 was such a difficult drama that they had even considered casting 10 or 11-year-old actors.
“How do you know that they are from the Eui-wi Office? Are you also a spy they sent?”
Lee Doha made very awkward hand gestures as he pretended to hold a blade to Yewon’s neck.
Though it was acting, it was obvious that he really disliked pointing anything threatening at Yewon.
“Oh please. I may look like this, but I’m someone who used to run errands for the palace ladies in the Palace Courtyard. I’ve memorized all the faces of the adults who act high and mighty. Though this is my first time seeing the Crown Prince’s countenance.”
Yewon spoke throughout with her eyes sparkling cleverly yet cheekily, just like the real ‘Seolhwa’.
* * *
Director Choi stared at Yewon, forgetting even to breathe.
‘This is it.’
Fireworks exploded in his head. The Seolhwa he had been searching for so desperately was right here, right now.
He had thought he needed a child who could act out light and shadow, but this child seemed like she didn’t even need to act.
She was just the clever and intelligent Seolhwa herself.
It was on a completely different level from Jeyeon’s acting, which was just like a pretty doll.
It was this child.
It had to be this child.
“….”
When Yewon finished her acting and returned to her original expression, Kim Writer covered her mouth and let out an exclamation.
“Completely Seolhwa….”
“I also have a version I practiced with a different feeling, should I try that too?”
When Yewon asked with a bright smile, Director Choi almost stood up excitedly, gripping the desk.
He wanted to shout that they should sign a contract right away.
But.
‘…Future Entertainment probably won’t just sit still though….’
Ugh.
Director Choi let out a groan. Though he felt like grabbing onto Yewon and Lee Doha’s pant legs and clinging to them, realistic barriers once again grabbed his ankles.
Pressure from investors and subtle coercion from the male lead’s entertainment agency.
These were burdens too great for him, a rookie director, to handle.
Yeongeo didn’t miss the shadow that crossed Director Choi’s face.
“Director.”
She interjected with perfect timing.
“I know what part you’re worried about. Casting isn’t something that’s decided by acting ability alone.”
“…You understand well.”
“That’s why we’ve prepared one more thing.”
“Yes?”
When Yeongeo gave a look, Lee Doha took out his phone from his jacket and placed it on the table.
“What is this?”
“It’s an OST.”
Lee Doha said calmly.
“After reading the script… I tried making Seolhwa’s theme song. It’s nothing special, but… please just consider it a gift I’m cautiously offering.”
“What?!”
The director and writer’s eyes widened.
GLEET’s Lee Doha? Personally?
Had brought an OST?
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