<h4>Chapter 650</h4>
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Get a decent-looking actor ready. Also, find out when the child actor ising.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">That came out from the assistant director’s walkie-talkie. The walls of the buildings had turned yellow-ish now. The shoot moved on to the next scene. Geunsoo and the actress that yed his wife were sitting on a café terrace. From the way their shoulders touched each other’s without making them look awkward before the shoot, they seemed to be on pretty close terms.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Actors have it good. They get good treatment.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“That’s true.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The woman with sses and the woman with freckles spoke as they looked at the café terrace. The other background actors alsomented.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Maru, do you also get that kind of treatment when you go to a shoot?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Someone as lowly as me would never get that treatment.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“How about your manager? Doesn’t your manager look after you?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“I do have a manager, but he’s in charge of all the child actors and usually moves around with Sooil a lot. The other child actors usually work without a manager.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Sooil?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Oh, there’s someone named Yoo Sooil.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Ah, Yoo Sooil! I know him. I saw him in a drama before. Didn’t he shoot amercial as well?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“He’s famous after all.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">For some time, everyone asked him about Yoo Sooil. He didn’t know anything much, so he couldn’t give them a specific answer. The people asking questions also changed topics after hearing obvious answers. They asked what being an actor was like, what they had to do, and what was hard about it. Maru replied with what he could and what he knew. He neither exaggerated nor undermined it. He only said the facts so that it could be a guideline for those looking to walk down this path. They would have to choose whether they proceeded forward or turned back.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“She’s here.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">That came from one of the staff. A car entered the parking lot and a woman walked out after the car stopped. The woman, wearing sunsses, immediately opened the passenger seat. Maru looked at the girl getting out of the car. She was Kim Bitna, who walked boldly with a child’s face. She walked over to the terrace and sat in between Geunsoo and the actress. Geunsoo grabbed Bitna’s hand and waved it around.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Looks like she’s that woman’s daughter.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“She’s pretty. My daughter was cute like that when she was that age.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru smiled as he listened to the grocery store man’s words. The shooting set became busy along with the arrival of Bitna. Makeup stylists all flocked to Bitna, while the director approached the three people sitting on the terrace and exined to them what they had to do.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Looks like it’ll start soon.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru stood up and did some stretches. The sun was going down. The assistant director, who had been looking at the sky for a while now, grabbed the walkie-talkie and called the director. It seemed that the sky was finally in the color they wanted. The director also looked up at the sky from the café terrace. From the way he nodded, he seemed satisfied with that as well.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru finished off his exercise by trilling his lips to rx his facial muscles. It wasn’t that he was going to do an emotional act in front of the camera, it was just something he did out of habit before every shoot. He also took a deep breath. The air at a shooting location would be thick and would make him pant if he didn’t breathe plentily right now. He had gotten used to that environment after shooting dramas, but it was still pretty difficult to deal with. He would probably never feel at home during a shoot until he retired.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“You’ll start from this bench.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The assistant director walked forward. The background actors followed him and learned about their movement path. They walked past the terrace the main actors were sitting on and entered the café.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“You and you. Sit down here. We’ll bring you coffee so talk to each other naturally. Anything is fine. The camera won’t be able to catch your mouth in detail. If you don’t have anything to say, you can recite the national anthem.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The sses woman and the freckles woman sat at the table next to the main actors. It seemed that they were chosen because they were decent-looking college students. There were a total of three tables on the terrace, and the sleeveless took thest table. She was putting on a pose while holding a cup with a straw in it.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“We’re starting the shoot. You just have to start from the starting point and walk over once we give you the signal.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">They left the café. Along with the action sign from the director, the main actors started acting. Geunsoo, the actress, and Bitna produced a bright mood and showed what a harmonious family was like. Just as the café part timer actor came out with the drinks for the main characters, the assistant gave the signal. It was the signal to move. Maru looked at the background actors behind him before moving first. There were people who were uneasy about their movement, so he decided their path for them beforehand. Ahjussi, go past the bench, hyung, walk towards the streetmp, and noona, to the center - like that.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A dozen or so people walked past the café. Maru went inside the café and looked at thest background actor that was leaving the camera angle. Everyone moved ording to their predetermined paths without making a mistake. If an extra made a mistake, they would get an earful 100% of the time. A leader with a bad personality would swear at them as well. Mistakes were only tolerable for the main actors.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Cut! Again.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The director’s loud voice could be heard. He was shaking his head as though he didn’t like this. Maru listened to the director’s voice that wasing out of the assistant director’s walkie-talkie - Assistant director, the two women at the front are too frozen up.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The assistant director approached the sses and the freckles and said something. It seemed that he was consoling the two, telling them not to be so nervous. It seemed to be going well until the freckles stood up.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“I don’t think I can do it. I’m too nervous.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The staff sighed and put down the equipment, which made the freckles turn pale. Unlike the sses, who had an interest in acting, freckles just came here following a friend. It was hard to receive gazes from over fifty people including the staff and the onlookers. To someone without immunity, attention was nothing more than a that strangled them.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The assistant director tried to calm her down to no avail. The leader, who was watching from the side, also stepped up. The leader sent away freckles and walked over to the director. Maru observed the situation before approaching freckles.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Are you okay?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Yeah, I think I’m okay now. But before, I thought I was dying.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Freckles sighed in relief. sses also approached and patted her on the back.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Uhm, who is Han Maru?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">That was the assistant director with the walkie-talkie. Maru raised his hand.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“The director’s looking for you.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">When he left the café, he saw the director standing right in front of him.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Maru, can you rece that woman from before? We don’t have any decent faces around right now.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Okay, I can do that. I don’t have to do anything specific, right?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“No. You just need to sit down and have a chat. If possible, try to get the woman sitting in front of you to rx.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Just as he was about to return to the café after nodding, the leader spoke out in a loud voice.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Director Lee, I said we can just pull her forward. She won’t make a mistake now, you know?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Leader, she has a very strong face. It’ll be captured by the camera all the time, and it doesn’t look good.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“But the young ones are all pretty and fashionable these days, you know? And it will look more realistic as well.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Leader.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Director Lee, don’t say that and just try her out once. I’m not saying this because she’s the daughter of a friend of mine, but because she really has the skill. She had the power to attract attention.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Yes, I get that thedy over there has a character. But just like you said, she attracts attention. An extra should look like an extra. Look at that.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The director pointed at sleeveless who was sitting at a table on the terrace. As soon as she realized that the director was looking at her, she crossed her legs and leaned back before making a drowsy face. Maru couldn’t tell whether she was trying to boast her feminine beauty or was acting, but it was clear that she wanted attention.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“She might look like that right now, but she’ll change dramatically once the shoot begins.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“I don’t believe in actors who say ‘they’ll switch modes once they start the shoot’. Do you think actors that get into the emotion before the shoot do that because they have nothing better to do?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The director had raised his voice a little. It seemed that the frustration and anger he had suppressed with a cap known as ‘rtionship’ had reached the limits of the cap. The leader immediately stopped telling him about using sleeveless as a better character and epted. He probably noticed that probing the director out further would result in losses. The leader scanned Maru from top to bottom before walking away from the monitor.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“He’s rather consistent.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“He doesn’t have a bad personality, but he covers for the people he considers his own a little too much. I really want to flip everything over when he acts like that from time to time, but he never crosses the line. His ability to not cross the line just by a hair’s breadth is so precise.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru was reminded of the leader’s eyes. He had a look at the café. The leader was talking to sleeveless. When sleeveless tilted her head in dissatisfaction, the leader quicklybed his rather spare hair sideways. It seemed that he was embarrassed that he wasn’t able to show his friend’s daughter his own abilities.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Should I go up just like this?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Should web your hair backwards? To make you look older, I mean.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">When he went to the café terrace and sat down, a woman holding makeup tools approached him and touched up his face and hair. While undergoing makeup, Maru felt a prickly gaze, and it was from the leader and sleeveless.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Are you the one?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Yes. The director told me that he doesn’t care even if it’s a couple.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Really?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">sses, who was sitting in front of him, smiled faintly before sighing. It wasn’t that she was at leisure, she just liked the fact that she could be in front of the camera. She was talking naturally while holding the coffee cup before, but right now, she sat upright and looked clearly stiff. It seemed that the absence of her friend had brought out her nervousness.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Why am I so nervous all of a sudden…?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">sses kept blinking endlessly. Her eyes were looking towards her friend, freckles, in a nervous manner. Unease exuded from her eyes. Maru tapped on the table to get her attention.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Do you know how many dwarves lived with Snow White?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Why do you ask so suddenly?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“No particr reason. How many were there?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Isn’t it seven?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Correct. Then what was the material of the magical carriage that took Cindere to the ball?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“A pumpkin of course. Why are you asking such a thing?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Just as sses was bing curious, Maru saw the background actors start to move. Following that, they got a sign from the assistant director.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Ready.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">And roll - Following that, the te could be heard as well. The only remaining one was the director’s action call. sses’ lips trembled. 1, 2, 3, action - as soon as that came out, Maru grabbed the cup with his hand.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Noona, do what I do.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Huh?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“For now, try grabbing the cup like this.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“C-can we talk like this? The camera’s rolling now, isn’t it? It will be an NG if our voice gets captured, and that….”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“It’s fine. Go on.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Behind sses were the main cast, who were acting. As soon as she heard a voice from behind, sses tried to look back with a stiff expression.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Noona, look at me.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru estimated the location of the camera and turned around slightly so that his expression wouldn’t be captured. Then he stretched out the part below his nose and widened his eyes.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“I look like a monkey, don’t I?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">sses looked at him with absurdity beforeughing with her mouth covered as though she was coughing. What are you doing - while she was saying that, her eyes were drawing a curve.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“The camera might see you.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“It can’t. ording to theyout right now, it’s shooting my shoulder, so your face won’t appear in it either, you know?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Really? Did it just go past us?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Of course. Did you think that the camera would be shooting you all the time? Aren’t you a little too full of yourself?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“We’re pretty close to the main actors, so I thought I was in it for sure.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Honestly speaking, your face doesn’t look that good, so they can’t afford to shoot you for a long time.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Hey, what’s wrong with my face? I’m not too shabby.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“And where’s that confidenceing from?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“I look pretty decent, don’t I?” sses said as she raised her chin a little.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru smiled. At the same time, an ‘okay’ could be heard from afar.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“What the heck? Is it done, just like that?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Yes, it’s over. Well done. Your expression was really good.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maru heaved out a heavy breath before stretching his arms out. If she stayed frozen in front of the camera, the director would have shouted cut instead. It was rather fortunate that they finished without a hitch, but Maru thought that she just barely made it. Freckles walked over andplimented the two, saying that the two looked great. Just as Maru was looking at sses, who looked confused, Maru saw Bitna, who was walking over to him.
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Hello, oppa.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Hi, Bitna. How have you been?”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Good.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“You were good at acting back there. I should learn a thing or two from you.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">“Thank you.”
<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Bitna bowed as though she learned that she should thank people if she wasplimented. Maybe this was why people said that daughters were great. When he looked at Bitna, who looked at him with round eyes, Maru was reminded of her sister. He wondered if she was doing well and whether she got rid of the problem she had. Just as he was about to ask, everyone was told that they should eat. It was time for dinner.