The Face Genius Actor

Episode 046

Before filming the reunion scene between Kim Won-young and Lim Hee-joo, I spent the entire afternoon shooting emotional scenes.

It was a scene expressing heavy emotions, sitting blankly on the sofa after not receiving any contact from Lim Hee-joo for days.

I kept filming scenes where I didn’t know how to sort things out, feeling heartbroken and suddenly tearing up.

All sorts of imaginations swirled in my head.

The emotion of suddenly sitting on the sofa without any thoughts.

It was acting that had to convey this through expressions alone.

That’s why it could be said to be quite challenging.

“Did you break up?”

My sister asked bluntly like this on her way to work, but Kim Won-young couldn’t find words to answer and just stared blankly at the ceiling.

Above the ceiling, only white wallpaper was spread out, holding slight shadows.

After several days passed like that, Kim Won-young finally left the house.

He felt like the ceiling would collapse right away if he didn’t do something.

He got up with some difficulty and changed his clothes.

Then, when he launched the delivery app, calls from several stores popped up.

3 jobs one day, 5 jobs the next day, 10 jobs the day after that…

Kim Won-young gradually regained his daily routine.

It seemed Lim Hee-joo was being forgotten from his life in this way.

At that moment, a car hit his motorcycle, and Kim Won-young rolled on the ground.

Screech- Bang!

Thus, Kim Won-young was taken to the hospital.

Lim Hee-joo, who received the news belatedly, visited the hospital room.

When Kim Won-young slowly opened his eyes, the person standing in front of him was Lim Hee-joo.

The reunion scene started right from here.

“We’ll be filming Part 14, Scene 48! Standby! Cue!”

* * *

It’s absurd that I’m glad to see my sister again in this state.

I feel crazy and angry at myself.

Because I didn’t want to make her worry like this.

So, I close my eyes again, pretending not to have opened them, a bit cowardly.

“I saw you open your eyes.”

“…You saw that again.”

“I’m Lim Hee-joo, you know.”

“Yeah. You’re Lim Hee-joo. But you’re standing in front of me. Unbelievably. Why did you come?”

“I got a call. Saying you were hurt. And when I opened my eyes, I was here.”

“I also collapsed and when I opened my eyes, you were here.”

After listening to me, she sighed and said,

“You have many bruises here and there, but they say you’re not seriously injured. No broken bones either.”

“You must be relieved now? So you’ll leave soon?”

“Do you want me to go?”

“Half and half. If it’s a relationship we need to end, then yes… If it doesn’t have to be… It couldn’t not be, right?”

“…I don’t know.”

“What?”

“I said I don’t know. I don’t know why I rushed here. Why I’m hesitating here.”

“Noona…”

“I apologized. We barely broke up after I apologized. I don’t know if it’s right to reverse it like this. No, we shouldn’t reverse it… That’s what’s right if we don’t want to hurt more…”

I get up and approach her.

My body aches all over.

But my heart is much more bearable than that.

I hug her tightly from behind.

After hugging her, for the first time since waking up, I’m glad to be alive.

“If I say I’m sorry about 100 times without hurting your pride… will you come back to me?”

She grabs my arms tightly with her hands.

That’s enough of an answer.

* * *

“Cut! Okay!”

“Good work!”

“You worked hard!”

There were still many scenes left to film.

But it could be said that the conflict between Kim Won-young and Lim Hee-joo was resolved with the filming of Part 14.

Now in Part 15, the sub-couple Yoon Jung-hoon (Gong Hyung-jun) and Kim Jung-hee (Lee Mi-hwa) would be resolved.

And in Part 16, when Jang Hyuk-jun (Park Jun) and Kim In-young (Jung Se-hee) are resolved, the filming of would be over.

Joo-yeon and I were expected to play supporting roles in directly or indirectly helping the remaining two couples come together.

It was regrettable that the tension of the Kim Won-young-Lim Hee-joo couple wouldn’t continue until Part 16.

But I was satisfied just to have this much screen time as the third lead couple.

In most dramas, the third lead couple often barely plays a supporting role.

Sometimes they don’t even exist at all.

While I was thinking about this, Lee Joo-yeon approached and spoke to me.

“Si-joon. You worked hard on today’s filming.”

“You worked hard too, senior.”

“Ah. It’s a shame. Now the Kim Won-young-Lim Hee-joo couple will fade from the viewers’ interest.”

Lee Joo-yeon said it was a shame, but she had a satisfied expression.

For Lee Joo-yeon too, it must be satisfying to have such a role in her first drama.

Especially since today’s filming wrapped up so well, her satisfaction seemed even greater.

I had come to understand Lee Joo-yeon’s emotional state to some extent while working closely together for a short but intense period.

For that reason, I could not take Lee Joo-yeon’s words too seriously.

Rather, I smiled and replied,

“The process of Kim Won-young and Lim Hee-joo dating happily will also be loved by many viewers.”

“You think so?”

“Yes. And there’s still filming left for Part 16 in an epilogue format. I’m looking forward to seeing how the writer imagines Kim Won-young and Lim Hee-joo 3 years later.”

“Me too. Me too.”

This morning, during the celebration party for surpassing 10% viewer ratings,

Writer Kim Hee-soo briefly talked about how she was planning the ending of .

She said she would depict scenes of the three couples fighting, dating, breaking up, and meeting again in their own ways.

From a point 3 years in the future.

It could have been an ordinary and predictable ending.

But all the lead actors present were excited.

It couldn’t be helped.

All the actors were deeply immersed in their roles while filming this drama.

As a result, they were curious about how their characters, who were like their alter egos, would be living three years later.

They wanted to catch a glimpse of that future quickly.

“They’ll be living happily, right?”

Lee Joo-yeon asked this, as if she had just imagined Kim Won-young and Lim Hee-joo’s life three years later.

I nodded after recalling the ending of “I Will Cast Love” from my memory.

“Yes. They’ll be happy. Very much so.”

* * *

While we finished all the filming for “I Will Cast Love” up to Part 16,

The year changed.

It was a new experience to greet the New Year for the first time since my regression.

‘April. Quite a lot has happened since I first regressed.’

I left Sorisaem, entered W Acting Academy, and appeared in “Arrest.”

In that process, I was lucky to have my role changed from high school student Hwang In-seop to high school student Shin Han-jae.

While the role of Hwang In-seop was also attractive, nothing was better than the role of Shin Han-jae for making my name known.

I also got the Sensus advertisement thanks to the role of high school student Shin Han-jae.

After that, I participated in a News Economy interview, and my appearance in “I Will Cast Love” was confirmed.

Currently, “I Will Cast Love” had aired up to Part 6.

The ratings increased daily, reaching 14.5% for Part 6.

It was an excellent result that matched the tremendous expectations.

Naturally, public attention was focused on it.

Although the new year had just begun, many people were already calling “I Will Cast Love” the best drama of the year.

Especially positive was the fact that the narratives of the sub-couples and the Kim Won-young – Lim Hee-joo couple started to unfold from Parts 3 and 4.

Naturally, Joo-yeon and I also received a lot of attention.

Our popularity wasn’t yet comparable to the main couple’s, and if we had to compare, we were still behind the sub-couples.

However, the popularity of the character Kim Won-young itself was quite high.

This was because Kim Won-young had the unique characteristic of being the main female lead’s younger brother, unlike other characters.

Among these, the scene that received the best response was the conversation with Jang Hyuk-jun who visited Kim In-young’s house in Part 3.

It was the first scene where Park Jun and I acted together alone.

The evaluation of Kim Won-young’s character changed significantly from this point.

From my perspective, I had received unexpected attention even before the new year began.

Yeo Kyung-chan, sitting in the driver’s seat, opened his mouth towards me.

“The response to Part 3 is so good. Everywhere I go, everyone’s talking about it. They say you held your own even in a one-on-one scene with actor Park Jun.”

Yeo Kyung-chan spoke without hiding his joy.

‘The drama has aired up to Part 6, but people are still talking about this…’

I had heard similar praise several times since Part 3 aired, but I still felt my face getting hot.

“At first, when you chose the role of the third male lead, I was a bit puzzled.”

“…Was that so?”

“Yes. But you had a grand plan all along, right?”

It was as Yeo Kyung-chan said.

I knew that Kim Won-young would receive quite a lot of attention for a third male lead.

But it was different from the future I knew.

In the pre-regression future, Kim Won-young received viewers’ cheers in Part 13 when he chose to break up with Lim Hee-joo.

I honestly didn’t expect to gain popularity this quickly in Part 3.

That’s why I answered honestly.

“To be honest, I didn’t expect to receive attention this quickly.”

“Eh? Really?”

“Yes. So I thought I would only really feel the popularity of ‘I Will Cast Love’ after the new year. Around Part 13.”

“Ah. Part 13 is where you put in a lot of effort, right?”

“That’s right. But I gained unexpected popularity in Part 3, and this is all thanks to Jun hyung.”

I really thought that Part 3 received attention thanks to Park Jun.

If Park Jun hadn’t intensely contemplated his acting, Part 3 couldn’t have achieved this level of completion.

As a viewer of “I Will Cast Love” from before the regression, I could understand this fact.

Especially, the thrill of matching rhythms with Park Jun alone still remained intact in my heart.

The feeling of implementing the world inside the method mask with perfect harmony, not leaning to either side.

This feeling was something I had never experienced before or after the regression.

If I were to pick the happiest moment of last year, I would choose that time without hesitation.

That’s how strong the impression of that day was.

But Yeo Kyung-chan seemed to interpret my answer differently.

“As expected, our actor is so modest.”

“I wasn’t trying to appear modest…”

“It’s fine. It’s fine. More importantly, even ‘And You’, who proposed today’s photoshoot, was talking about Part 3. Isn’t that amazing?”

That’s right.

I was currently on my way to a fashion magazine’s photoshoot with Yeo Kyung-chan.

Moreover, the first schedule of the new year was set to take place overseas, not domestically.

‘Did they say we’re going to Guam…?’

But I was more focused on the name of the fashion magazine we would be working with than the fact that we were going abroad.

I couldn’t help it.

‘And You’ was one of the top five fashion magazines in Korea.