Chapter 420 (2/2)

“I did find it strange that Joohyun-noonim was walking right behind you when she came to the action school last time, but I never realized that you were her brother.”

“To think that you kept such an important thing a secret until now. What a disappointment.”

The two people kept poking Bangjoo by the waist.

“There’s nothing good if it gets known. Both for me and for my sister. Also, my sister said she has no intentions of getting married.”

“What? Really?”

“Yes.”

“Why? She’s so pretty. There must be a truckload of men wanting to marry her.”

Hearing that question, Bangjoo’s expression darkened. Maru slapped Joon-gi and Sooyoung’s mouths with the back of his hand. When the two people glared back at him, Maru told them to stop here.

“Are you here to do an interrogation? Stop falling into your delusions and finish what we started.”

“Alright, alright. Damn, kid. Your hand is spicy.”

Sooyoung wiped his mouth with his palm as he continued speaking,

“Anyway, you’re saying that the director isn’t 100% stubborn in his ways?”

According to director Joongjin’s style, there was no way a minor actor could shine more than a lead actor. After all, in the world inside his mind, everyone should have their respective roles.

However, Joohyun achieved that. She made the director fall for her and managed to do her own act instead of the one suggested by the director. As a result of that, she became a star.

“If you get acknowledged, who knows? He might give you his full support.”

“We’re just minor actors, would he really do that?”

“It would probably be impossible to rise to the ranks of main characters since the story is already set, but it should be possible for him to allocate more screen time for us during the beginning parts.”

“It would be great if that happened. I would die satisfied if my face appeared on screen for just 30 seconds.”

“1 minute for me.”

“15 seconds for me!”

The three of them grinned in satisfaction.

“So all three of you agree?”

The three of them slowly nodded.

“But we can’t just outright go against his words, can we? I think it’ll be reckless to just tell him that we are going to do our own acts.”

“Of course, we’ll have to plan things out.”

“Plan things out?”

Maru crossed his arms. Joongjin didn’t look like someone who would talk nonsense. If they told him that they wanted him to look at their acts without any preparation, they might actually be thrown out of the set. However, was that the only way?

“For now, we’ll follow the director’s words. Honestly speaking, I couldn’t think of a better picture than what the director suggested during that classroom scene. What about you guys? Do you think you can direct people better or make it look better than that?”

The three of them thought about it for a while before shaking their heads. Joongjin’s skills were definitely exceptional. The owner of those exceptional skills was putting his heart and mind into creating a movie. If they were to have Joongjin paint a completely different color on top of what is a ‘completed movie’ in his mind, no small feat was going to do it.

“Since we’re here in the mountains, I’m probably going to die here. This is the scene where we have the most lines.”

“That’s true. Once we go to the port, the only thing we can do is to jump around cheerfully.”

“For now, do as the director says once the shoot begins. Once you think of a better act than the one that the director is telling you to do, you can bring it up then. Of course, only after discussing it between ourselves.”

“But what if he says no? The guy that tried to change the direction of turning got rejected on the spot. Wouldn’t he tell us to f.u.c.k off if we tell him that we want to change the acting when we’re just minor actors?”

“Once we four judge that it’s better than what the director is telling us to do, I’m going to push on with it.”

“Push on with it?”

“Yeah.”

“Isn’t it too dangerous? I don’t want to be thrown out of the movie altogether while trying to do something different,” Joon-gi spoke in a careful manner.

“That probably won’t happen.”

“How do you know that? It seems too much like a gamble to me.”

“I don’t like gambling. Challenging something is too dangerous after all.”

“I think what we’re trying to do is plenty dangerous though.”

“No. If the director is someone that can take responsibility for his words, then it’s not that much of a gamble.”

He didn’t say words like ‘he had a good feeling about this’. Maru talked to the others about this because he saw definite potential in this.

- Just following what other people have already done is, yes, it is very easy. There’s no risk in that. That is because numerous pioneers have experienced all the existing dangers and told their followers. Look, this is no longer dangerous - one would have said.

Joongjin said those words himself. He also said this - the ones that have faith in conventions start condemning people that try to escape such conventions.

Joongjin was a meticulous perfectionist. Precisely because of that, he wouldn’t want to contradict himself. He talked as though he was bored when they talked in the restaurant. He always looked for new, exciting, and fun things.

His declaration when he said that he would throw people out if they went against his frame, was perhaps, not such a strict declaration.