episode_0024

“Okay, I’ll leave right away.”

The female lead in an unaired drama was arrested for doing drugs with a male idol.

What on earth is going on?

By the way, I was guaranteed a 40-hour workweek.

“What do you know? In this situation.”

I arrived at the company in a hurry by taxi.

In the late meeting room, all the key members of Team 3 were present, including the head of the headquarters.

Everyone is fiddling with their empty ashtrays, it looks like they really want to smoke a cigarette.

“Oh, Doyoung. Are you here? Taxi? ”

“Yes, I came as fast as I could.”

“Sorry for calling you so late. But I really need the totem.”

“It’s okay.”

And even among these, there is a totem drip.

Team leader Jo Woon-seok summarized the situation briefly and concisely.

“It’s drug sex.”

I almost spit it out.

It’s strong from the start.

My head is spinning.

“Ma, drug sex?”

“An actress and a handsome younger male idol. If they did drugs together, it would be drug sex.”

“The evidence is… .”

“The evidence doesn’t matter. There’s a 99% chance it was drug sex, and even if it wasn’t even a 1% chance, everyone in this world already thinks so.”

Looking at their expressions, there is no doubt in their minds.

A body was found, so it feels like a person is dead?

Jo Si-yeon, will she ever be able to return to the screen?

I’m not sure if this is a retirement memorandum.

“Who is Namdol A?”

“Dexkey Center. He’s a really hot guy among the male idols these days. His fandom is thick and hot. That’s why he’s burning even more fiercely.”

I have no idea what it is.

I searched secretly while keeping an eye out, and it looks like a parasite.

I took a quick look at the SNS reactions that were popping up one after another,

I closed it right away without looking back because chaos and confusion were spreading.

“What will happen to our drama if Yeoju flies away?”

I asked Team Leader Jo Woon-seok in the quietest voice possible.

“I have to find a substitute and throw her in. But I wonder if an actress with a high salary would want to get into the mud.”

Even if I were an actress of my class, I don’t think I would want to get involved in something like this.

The mindless discussion passed.

“Listen carefully, everyone. Don’t even mention the actresses who are falling apart.”

“How about Kim Ji-woo? She just finished her work and is currently on hiatus, but she is an actress with a lot of desire to appear in dramas,”

“The agency that he was with was heavily involved in drugs last time, so they probably won’t even look at him?”

“What about Lee Sang-hee?”

“He’s so proud that he wouldn’t come in to fill the empty space.”

“But you’re the lead actor? Shouldn’t you at least say something?”

“Then keep it for now.”

Everyone’s departure is confirmed.

I was wondering who to bring in as a replacement.

‘It’s a bit strange.’

We are not an actor agency, a broadcasting station, or a production company.

I don’t know if they would have put in a lead actor for this drama, but they put in a rookie actress’ debut role as the female protagonist when she was a teenager.

But you’re saying you’re going to act like this?

“Before being cast, we were just waiting to be chosen, but now we are a community of destiny on the same boat. If this boat sinks, our Hyejin’s career will also be jinxed. We have to grit our teeth and drag it to the port.”

I was a little convinced after hearing what Team Leader Jo Woon-seok said.

“Now that we’ve left the port, let’s repair the ship with one mind since we’ll die together.”

“That’s right. If we just sit back and watch, thinking it’s not our job, we’ll never be able to work with the next PD writer.”

Then why did you call me?

I don’t think this will help the discussion at all.

Are you really praying to the totem?

“Chief, I think these three would be appropriate as substitute actresses.”

The chief looked at the actress’s photos with a strict expression and responded curtly.

“Is this the best you can do?”

“Yes, that’s right. Considering schedules, personalities, and agency tendencies, actresses like that have a chance of being cast successfully.”

I thought it would be okay to try all three and choose the one that looks OK first, but

“Do you think that actress would feel good if she found out that someone else came to her? If she gets what other people say, she’s admitting that she’s lower than that bitch, right?”

I was convinced once again by Team Leader Jo Woon-seok’s detailed explanation.

The chief was thinking about the actresses while making a face.

Jo Woon-seok asked quietly.

“Who do you think is the most attractive to you, Doyoung? Tell me honestly how you feel as a totem.”

“To be honest, I don’t really like any of them.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Well, rather than saying something is wrong… .”

A corner of my heart is ticklish.

Suddenly, something writer Lee Si-hyang said came to mind.

-If Hyejin had been born 10 years earlier, no, even 5 years earlier, she would have been written as the lead role instead of during her teenage years.

Did the drama writer place the greatest importance on the level of harmony between the character he created and the actor’s image?

– Originally, the script was unfinished, but after seeing Hyejin, the scattered pieces of the image came together to form a puzzle. However, due to adult circumstances, the character that was completed in that way ended up being played by another actor.

That is also the reason why Han Yu-na put so much effort into the narrative of her youth.

The problem is that Yuna in the drama is 28 years old.

No matter how well high school student Hwang Hye-jin acts, the gap of time cannot be helped.

Generally speaking, no.

But I have a future app, right?

“Team Leader, there’s something I want to show you. Can I use the projector?”

“Is it related to the substitution?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Okay. Get ready quickly.”

While I was setting up my laptop.

Jo Woon-seok explained the situation to the chief and other people.

My back was itchy and I was nervous because of the pouring gaze, but I set it up calmly.

【I can control the beam projector myself and play videos.】

‘I know. But I guess I’ll have to connect the laptop and pretend to play it.’

Even if you just click your brain and take care of everything.

Since people are watching, I should at least do a show of clicking my hands.

After roughly preparing, I focused on my laptop.

“I don’t have time, what on earth are you going to show me… .”

I ignored the chief’s grumbling and turned on the video.

-Do you remember?

A practice video of Hwang Hye-jin’s acting transformed into a mature appearance 10 years later using CG.

The future app clicked on the sincere acting, costumes, and backgrounds,

The quality was so good that it could be used as promotional material for the drama right away.

-You told me not to forget what you did to me, right?

Well, our Hyejin’s innocent and pitiful visuals and that poisonous gaze that doesn’t match her charm are the gap between them…

Oh, I’m having this thought again.

When will that angry, explosive look in my eyes from my middle school days leave my head?

The video has ended.

Looking back at the reactions, they are divided in two.

Some are truly amazed, while others have pupils that shake.

“Wow, you act so well. More than anything, your image matches our Hyejin’s so well.”

“There was an actress like that? But how come we didn’t know about it until now?”

“Did you find it somewhere like a small theater?”

Team Leader Jo Woon-seok’s pupils look like they’re going to explode.

Still, he’s a person with a keen eye.

“Hyejin acted it herself.”

“What?”

“Is this Hyejin?”

***

PD Son Jun-goo had a hellish time.

Ignoring the calls from reporters pouring in from all directions, he casted the candidates with bloodshot eyes for the purpose of casting a substitute.

-sorry.

-We would also like to review it positively if possible, but… .

-I think it would be polite to PD Son to answer this question right away.

-You know Ara’s personality. I really want to go into this work by author Lee Si-hyang, but I’m scared and it’ll be hard.

Every phone call I make is rejected.

It’s a little better because you answer right away without wasting time, but it’s not comforting.

Author Lee Si-hyang spoke with a dying look in her eyes.

“PD, you’ve done enough.”

“Author, this is… .”

“It’s at most 6 months. It’ll just sit there like a mouse and then get rescheduled. But isn’t it fortunate that it blew up before it aired? It blew up after the first episode aired. Oh my, it’s horrible to even imagine.”

PD Son Jun-goo even had such thoughts.

‘Was the Hyejin bombing ship a warning for this?’

There is no connection at all. Even Hwang Hye-jin is a victim of false accusation.

PD Son Jun-goo was in a mentally desperate situation to the point where he even had such thoughts.

Even when there was a plagiarism controversy, on-site bullying, drunk driving, programming errors, studio bankruptcy, the dismissal of the broadcasting station president, and an affair between actors during the broadcast was revealed.

The drama was made with steadfast determination and ended safely.

However, this was the first time that a drug sex scandal broke out between the lead actress and a younger male idol before the broadcast.

[Sender: Manager Cha Do-young]

“Ah, Doyoung. Yes, that’s right. Haa, I don’t know. My head is… What did you say? Okay. Yes, yes, I’ll wait. ”

Writer Lee Si-hyang also ran towards Son PD’s changed voice with her eyes lit up.

“Do you have any good news?”

“I have some hopeful news, but please wait and see. I can’t explain it in words.”

After a while, Cha Do-young arrived at the studio.

“Please see the author too.”

“Okay.”

Without even having time to say hello, he opens his laptop and starts showing me a video.

The staff who had been panicking and feeling helpless gathered one by one to watch.

A woman with a poisonous gaze turns her back to the splendid and gloomy night view of the garden and glares at her.

-Do you remember?

Son PD’s eyes shook without mercy.

The heroine of Winter Castle, ‘Han Yu-na’ was inside.

With eyes that held a more vivid venom than the poisonous image he had vaguely drawn.

He laughs at the target of his curses with all his hatred.

The image of actress Jo Si-yeon was always vague.

When I looked at the actress on the monitor, she became clear and vivid like a rainbow sky after the rain.

Next to him, author Lee Si-hyang trembled slightly, then opened his mouth while looking at Cha Do-young.

“Is this… Hyejin?”

“Yes, Hyejin acted, and her face was processed with CG to look like an older adult.”

The PD and writer were frozen in shock.

Cha Do-young also showed the original video without any CG processing.

Character’s age.

Costume. And background.

Everything was different.

The only thing that’s the same is the actress’s acting.

“You don’t have time, so why don’t you stop looking far away and just leave everything to our Hyejin?”

“… Can you make the CG production period fit the broadcast schedule?”

Things like CG quality, company, and production cost couldn’t enter PD Son’s head right now.

The only thing that matters is time.

“I guarantee you, it will be faster than the PD filming.”