Chapter 137: Chief Jung, Your Actors are a bit (2)
TL: emptycube / ED: Isleidir
As soon as the cameras began rolling, a tense air hung in the film set.
Stunt staff got in position on the ground and on the crane. The jib camera was rolling in the air, and a cart carrying a camera rushed down the rails. And Lee Songha, she stood on top of the a/c unit hanging outside the apartment.
Her waist and thighs were supported by wires.
“Is she about to climb up the building?”
The reporter blankly mumbled.
“Won’t a stunt person take her place after she just acts as if she will?”
“Or will they just take closeup shots now and film the rest on another set?”
While the Weekly Entertainment staff were discussing, Lee Songha bent her knees. Then she kicked off the a/c unit and jumped up. They gulped. At the same time, her small hands gripped the rusty banister on the second floor. She then began to steadily climb the building.
To a higher banister, to a higher a/c unit.
Extras, dressed up as zombies, flailed their hands through each window. Lee Songha narrowly avoided and slowly yet surely made her way up.
“So that’s why they set it up so that she wanted to be a gymnast. To film scenes like this.”
“It doesn’t even seem like she’s being pulled up by the wires either. She really is climbing her way up.”
“What do you think she wore underneath her skirt?”
The producer smacked the back of the production assistant’s head repeatedly.
The reporter admired the scene as he said,
“But doesn’t it seem like she really learned gymnastics? Like look at her actions.”
“She did learn it.”
A staff member who wore his baseball cap backwards suddenly joined in.
He was the staff member Chief Jung Sunwoo asked to comment on Lee Songha. The Weekly Entertainment staff quickly picked up their camera and handed him a wireless mic. The staff coughed and continued,
“She worked hard to learn it because she wanted to do her own stunts. She went to a gymnastics coach to learn too. And parkour and climbing? The one where you climb inside a building. Apparently, she learned those too.”
“All of them?”
“While alternating between filming her drama on top of that. I heard she went back and forth between China and Korea during weekends. I saw her schedule, and it was incredible. Chief Jung, who balanced that schedule, is hardcore, and Lee Songha, who actually handled it all, is even more incredib-“
“Oh, oh, oh!”
The production assistant leaped up and down.
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
The staff member hastily turned around. Lee Songha lost her grip on an a/c unit while trying to avoid a zombie’s hand. Her slender body crashed onto the banister below. Then she powerlessly fell into the veranda.
“Th-that!”
“It’s an act.”
After saying this, the staff member laughed.
“See how the camera is still following her movements? It’s all an act.”
The Weekly Entertainment staff quickly looked around. The jib camera was hovering over the veranda Lee Songha fell in.
“The action looks incredibly real, right? We were all surprised during the rehearsal. We thought she would be seriously injured.”
The amazed staff gestured to them.
“Come over here.”
He led them to monitors Director Choi Sungwon and other cast members were gathered in front of. The Weekly Entertainment crew cautiously and quietly stood behind them. The staff member whispered,
“You see the monitor showing the one-shot, right? Look at that.”
Their gazes focused on it.
The scene of Lee Songha getting back up and climbing again was clearly reflected on the screen. At first, it looked like she was barely making her way up, but her actions soon looked visibly lighter. There was no hesitation in her steps.
Staring at the screen, the camera director blinked.
“She’s trembling?”
Lee Songha’s shoulders, arms, and even her fingers were trembling.
“You’re right. Is that also her acting?”
“I think it’s half-and-half. Even if there are wires and mats, how scary do you think it is?”
“Her chin is trembling too. Is she crying?”
They stopped speaking at some point.
The camera, which tilted up from her trembling shoulders, captured her face. She wasn’t crying. Lee Songha was smiling. A face messily mixed with fear and euphoria.
As though she couldn’t contain how happy she was climbing up a wall.
“Good…”
Director Choi Sungwon had a pleased smile as his gaze focused on the screen.
Even the other actors behind him cried out.
“My god. Look at her expression. How can she express the feeling of being suppressed finally breaking free so well? It’s incredible.”
“Did she experience a lot even though she’s young? Unless she has family issues like Lee Yeonwoo, there’s no way she can express that feeling so clearly.”
“Didn’t she do an interview with a smile just now? How can she get into her role so quickly? Does she have a switch?”
“Should I tell you something more amazing? Before we started filming, she was mumbling something with a serious face. I thought she was memorizing her lines, but it turns out she was mumbling how she wants to eat ice cream.”
“Oh, that girl makes this veteran anxious.”
Even veteran actors commented.
Director Choi Sungwon shouted, “Cut!” in satisfaction and said to the actors,
“You were all great too.”
“It’s no good if we are similar, director.”
The actress Park Saeryung grumbled.
“I’m being paid much more than her so I need to be much better than her.”
“Director, my one-shot before, could we refilm it? I want to try saying my line a bit more quickly.”
Lee Kihwan said while scratching his chin.
Director Choi Sungwon’s eyes curved into crescent moons.
“Of course you can. If an actor is dissatisfied with his scene and wants to redo it, of course, he can.”