Kang Woojin, heading to the shooting zone for the main shoot, heard a conversation between PD Song Man-Woo and the VFX team, which included a foreigner. He thought,
‘Huh? Is there a problem? It seems serious.’
He wasn’t very interested at first. However, even though he didn’t want to listen, he could hear the foreigners’ conversation. Even the English he had never heard in his life was very smoothly and easily understood.
‘Oh- I see. That’s what they’re talking about. Wow, but this is really amazing? It’s very fascinating.’
Kang Woojin, now intrigued, listened to their English from a few steps away. But something seemed to be getting lost in translation. ‘Ah, should I correct that?’
Because he was the actor playing the role of Park Dae-ri, it bothered him.
‘Should I step in?’
That was all there was to it.
‘I’ll have to use English sooner or later, so it’s fine to start early.’
Honestly, since he had gained the language skill, he wanted to use it at least once. For experiment. So, Kang Woojin stepped in. The target was a slightly serious, bald foreigner from the VFX team. The bald foreigner was surprised as Woojin fluently explained something in English.
Woojin didn’t forget to introduce himself at the end.
“Oh, I’m the actor playing that role.”
A foreigner understood my English? Kang Woojin kept a straight face, but inside, he was dancing with joy, thrilled to be able to converse so effortlessly with a foreigner.
At this point,
“······What?”
“???”
Upon Kang Woojin’s appearance and the fluent English he spat out, the people gathered around him widened their eyes. This included dozens of staff and actors alike. The focus was on Woojin, but he took one step closer to the bald foreigner and continued explaining in English since he was riding the flow.
His tone was still low.
“The world changing colors is to express the twisted innocence of the character, and perceiving animals and people not as life but merely as colors, treating them lightly like objects.”
There was not a moment’s hesitation in his words. The bald foreigner, now more surprised, asked awkwardly in English.
“···The part where the firecrackers go off.”
“It’s directed like a fairy tale showing cruelty. Imagine a child seeing blood bursting from the neck when something is killed. The writer expressed the bursting blood as a red firework.”
“I see. A grotesque innocence.”
“That’s right. This character has a firm world and psychology of his own. He has a perspective that others can never understand.”
“It needs to be emphasized.”
“If a gradient is added to the color, it should be fine. It will be noticeable and will make a good point.”
Woojin’s design knowledge was included in the conversation. Their conversation flowed very naturally. It looked as if two Americans were having a casual conversation, and both Kang Woojin and the bald foreigner continued the conversation calmly. However, the surroundings were anything but calm.
It started with dozens of staff around them opening their eyes wide.
“What? Why is Woojin so good at English? Isn’t it almost at a native level?”
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The Mistaken Genius Actor 🧑🏻🎤
FantasyDescription I, Kang Woojin, was quitting my design work and became a jobless person. The next day, my friend took me to auditions and I was forced to perform. I was given a script, void space appeared in my mind and forced me to relive the character...
