Peninsula: From a supporting actor to the best actor in Chungmuro

Chapter 35 Despicable Me 2 Preview
The star-chasing scene on the basement floor was far inferior to the preview screening upstairs.

The signature wall standing in the atrium of the cinema is three stories high. More than 30 reporters holding cameras and long guns gathered in the media area with Minions' footprints printed on it. The human wall formed by security guards isolated ordinary audiences ten meters away.

Crowds of fans were standing on tiptoe, waving banners in support of Yoona and Taeyeon. A girl wearing a bucket hat was pointing her camera at the passage where Yoona was about to appear.

When Kang Jae-hoon signed the final stroke and turned around, the staff handed him a Minions doll as a photo prop.

The searchlights on the entire signature wall suddenly lit up at the same time, and the sound of shutter clicks one after another was like a torrential rain hitting the glass.

The strong light caused his pupils to contract suddenly, and a snow-blind spot exploded on his retina.

Even after completing the solo shoot, a dancing halo still lingered in Kang Jae-hoon's vision.

When I took the mineral water bottle handed to me by the staff, the trademark on the plastic bottle was distorted in the double image.

Screams suddenly broke out at the scene.

Jiang Zaixun rubbed his sore eyes and turned his head - Lin Yuna was bathed in a waterfall of light from flash lights.

Her eyelashes didn't move at all under the strong light that fluttered five times per second, and the curve of her lips was so precise that it seemed as if it had been measured with a ruler.

Jiang Zaixun silently counted to the tenth flash, his deer-like eyes were still clear and bright - the professionalism of an idol is truly amazing.

As the galaxy of flashing lights gradually faded, the stagehand trotted over to remind:

"Please move to the main stage for a group photo."

"..."

Jiang Jae-hoon rubbed his swollen temples and turned around, meeting Lin Yuna's inquiring gaze.

She tapped the corners of her eyes twice with her fingertips and asked with her mouth, "Are you okay?"

He waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

Kim Taeyeon approached with the clacking sound of her high heels, her eyes flickering between Kang Jae-hoon and Lin Yuna, and suddenly she grabbed Kang Jae-hoon's sleeve and dragged him towards the center:
"Stand here."

"Isn't this bad?"

The normal standing positions for taking group photos are based on the order of the actors' roles.

But it depends on the situation.

If the popularity of the main and supporting characters drops sharply, their positions will also be adjusted.

The center of the main stage is Kim Taeyeon and Lim Yoona. After all, Girls' Generation's popularity is terrifying nowadays.

From the elderly in their eighties to school-age teenagers, even if they are not fans, they can name one or two players.

——Even Choi Min-sik, one of the “Three Horsemen of Chungmu”, wanted to be their driver.

Kim Taeyeon gestured above her head: "Do we really have to line up like a cell phone signal grid?"

Lin Yuna pressed her fist to her lips, and her shoulder lines rippled slightly.

"OK then."

Seeing this, Kang Jae-hoon no longer refused and stood between Yoona and Taeyeon.

"Click——"

"Click——"

"..."

After the shutter clicked, the stagehands led everyone to the screening room.

Lin Yuner deliberately fell two steps behind and stood shoulder to shoulder with Jiang Zaixun. She tapped her eyes with her index finger joints and asked, "Are your eyes uncomfortable?"

"There's a little glare left."

Jiang Zaixun rubbed his eyes and said, "This is the first time I've been baptized by such dense flashes."

"You'll get used to it slowly."

"How long did it take you to practice not blinking?"

"Seven years and three months."

As she spoke, Lin Yuner took out a bottle of eye drops from her bag and asked, "Would you like to try it?"

"Thank you."

Jiang Zaixun reached out to take it, but she pulled it back: "Look up."

"I can do that myself."

"Have you ever dripped it?"

“No, but I’ll have experience after I finish dripping.”

"This bottle is 6."

"..."

Kang Jae-hoon does have 6 won, but there is no way he can buy eye drops at that price.

Helplessly, he could only lean back in his chair and open his eyes wide.

The citrus scent from Yoona's body wafted over as she moved.

As the cold liquid dripped into his eyes, Jiang Zaixun heard her lower her voice: "Count to five and then blink."

He did as he was told.

"This is eye drops."

Lin Yuna stuffed the remaining eye drops into his suit pocket: "Next time, put two drops before the media attacks."

Jiang Zaixun touched the cold glass bottle in his suit pocket:
“This is too expensive.”

"It's used as tuition for dubbing lessons."

"A diagram of the vocal cords isn't worth sixty thousand."

"I have the final say on whether it's worth it or not."

The ceiling lights in the screening room suddenly went out, and the opening animation of Illumination Entertainment popped up on the big screen.

The Minions' silly laughter shook the seats, and the blue light of the big screen reflected Lin Yuner's slightly raised mouth:
"It's time to start, Mr. Gru."

"Ah."

Jiang Zaixun held the eye drops bottle in his palm, and the glass shell was covered with body temperature.

On the screen.

The alarm in the Arctic Laboratory pierced the silence of minus thirty degrees Celsius, and the genetic reconstruction serum created strange indigo ripples in the constant temperature chamber.

This biological weapon under development can transform living organisms into mutants with astonishing destructive power, but at this moment it is being sucked away from the ice field by an electromagnetic device controlled by an unknown force.

Anti-Villain League Headquarters.

A holographic projection recreates the robbery scene above the oval conference table.

After reviewing the on-site video, the Chairman turned his attention to the dusty "Gru" file in the filing cabinet.

When female agent Lucy was ordered to recruit this former world-class criminal, the screen suddenly switched to the community party at Gru's house.

The actor originally scheduled to play the guardian elf was absent temporarily. In order to protect the children's innocence, the former villain was floating in the air in a pink puffy skirt.

"I am the fairy elf who protects you~"

A shrill male falsetto came from the speakers, and Gru's clumsy ballet spin brought up a shower of sequins.

Suddenly, a crisp sound of water spraying was heard in the theater.

Lin Yuna bit the straw tightly, the blue light of the screen flowed over her violently trembling shoulders, reflecting the diamond-like smile in her eyes.

Actually, there's nothing funny about this plot.

But the terrible thing is that the person who made this rough clamping sound was sitting next to her.

at the same time.

Cine21 film critic Kim Sung-wook in the second row suddenly stopped writing.

He once again confirmed the name on the dubbing list: Gru - Kang Jae-hoon.

The apprentice of Hwang Jung-min who debuted in a drama?

The rough and funny voice on the screen at this moment is completely different from the poetic humming in the National Theatre.

The audience attending the movie preview in South Korea are all professional film critics, media reporters, fellow actors and other people in the industry, and there are no ordinary audiences.

Therefore, there are no fewer than a handful of people like Kim Sung-wook who have to reconfirm the dubbing list.

The story on the cinema screen is still progressing in an orderly manner.

After the community party ended, Gru was dragged into the Anti-Villain League's underwater base by female agent Lucy.

Gru returned home and told his three adopted daughters that he would have a new job. The three girls' cheers almost blew off the ceiling.

Do not know why.

Kang Jae-hoon always felt that the voice of Edith, voiced by Im Yoona, was too sweet, more than an octave sweeter than the original version.

Thinking of this, he secretly glanced at the people around him.

The blue light from the screen cast flowing spots of light on her profile, and the corners of her mouth curled up in an imperceptible arc - Edith's words "Dad is the best" were the result of being polished thirteen times.

Lin Yuna seemed to notice Jiang Jae-hoon's gaze.

The moment she turned her head, Jiang Zaixun's eyes were fixed on the screen.

An undercover investigation begins at Paradise Mall. Posing as a bakery couple, Gru sets his sights on Eduardo, the owner of a Mexican restaurant.

This man is extremely similar to the super villain Meng Ye who "committed suicide", but there is no solid evidence.

But the eldest daughter Margot has a secret crush on Eduardo's son Antonio, and they go on dates as frequently as clocking in for work.

Gru, who was eager to protect his daughter, tried to obstruct her in every possible way, but instead deepened his suspicion of Eduardo.

The Anti-Villain League mistakenly arrested the wig shop owner to take the blame, and Gru's reasoning was completely denied.

The chairman issued a transfer order to exile Lucy to Australia, but Gru unwillingly followed Eduardo to the secret base - as expected, this Mexican boss was the fierce man who pretended to be dead!
Meng Ye's plan is ambitious: to steal viruses to transform Minions and form a mutant army to rule the world.

He invited Gru to join his plan, but Gru declined on the grounds that he had to go home to take care of his daughter.

Meanwhile, on the flight to Australia, everyone looks like Gru to Lucy.

Realizing her feelings, she jumped out of the plane decisively and tried to meet Gru at the May 5th party, but her identity was exposed and she was caught by Mengye on the spot.

Then, in order to save his family's lives, the doctor changed sides and injected the antidote into the jelly production line.

Gru led the surviving Minions disguised as mutants to infiltrate the lair of the devil and cooperate with the doctor.

Gru attracted the mutants inside, and the doctor used a jelly Gatling gun to output them in the modified plane.

The moment those roaring purple monsters came into contact with the jelly, their skin gradually faded back to its original bright yellow color.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Meng Ye frantically drank the entire bottle of virus, and his body swelled into a five-meter-tall purple giant.

Gru seized the opportunity and pulled the trigger of the stun gun, and a blue and white arc of electricity exploded on the monster.

In the chaos, a close-up shot of Lucy tied to the tail of a missile exploded on the IMAX screen - the tail of the missile spewed out orange-red flames, carrying her towards the boiling magma in the crater.

Gru roared, grabbing the rocket shell and climbing up.

"Lucy——"

Jiang Zaixun suddenly heard sporadic conversations coming from not far behind him:

"This angry sound changes"

"The Blue Dragon Awards should have a dubbing department."

He wanted to turn around to check but was attracted by the key plot on the screen -

In the ash-covered clouds, Lucy's hair danced wildly in the heat, her pupils reflecting the approaching volcano:
"Gru! You better have something important to say!"

"If I can survive this time—"

Gru, voiced by Kang Jae-hoon, changes his voice from hoarse to trembling with hope, as if the heat of magma has burned his vocal cords: "I want to go on a date with you."

"Now you mention that?" Lucy suddenly laughed. "Of course I do!"

The two men fell into the lava lake at the same time one second before the missile was about to hit the volcano, and the air waves caused by the anti-gravity device pushed them onto the safe reef.

The camera turned.

After 147 dates, Gru and Lucy got married.

The Minions, dressed in comical white tuxedos, fumbled to tune the organ, only to produce a series of fart-like notes.

The eldest daughter, Margot, walked over to Lucy with her two younger sisters. The youngest daughter suddenly looked up and winked at her:
"Can I call you mom now?"

"Of course~"

So far, the story ends successfully.

The ending theme music and the lights in the theater light up in sync.

The subtitles rolled and the applause was mixed with whispers:

“I thought it would be a poor imitation of Steve Carell, but it turned out to be a completely subversive re-creation. The transition from angry voice to bubbly voice was more natural than that of a professional voice actor.”

"Those old guard in Chungmuro ​​should redefine the scope of acting."

"..."

When the "Special Thanks" subtitles appeared, the screen suddenly cut to a dubbing clip.

Jiang Zaixun held up the non-existent skirt with his left hand, and with his right orchid finger raised high enough to hook the chandelier, he spun around in the recording studio with his voice held high:
"The fairy sister is here with jelly~"

"Pfft haha——"

The sudden burst of laughter in the control room had not yet dissipated, and Kim Taeyeon's aunt-like laughter from the A2 recording room next door had penetrated three layers of sound insulation cotton.

Amidst the laughter in the screening room, Kang Jae-hoon slowly turned his head to look at Kim Taeyeon.

Kim Taeyeon, as expected, held up the program leaflet to cover her face, but a muffled goose laugh still escaped from behind the page:

"Yoona was laughing at that time, why were you just staring at me?"

Kang Jae-hoon's death stare gradually softened after sweeping across Lin Yuna's trembling shoulders, and finally turned into a resigned sigh.

Lin Yuner quietly wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes while adjusting her hair:

"Remember the media interview later."

"The teacher said if you can't answer, just smile foolishly."

"A silly smile shows eight teeth."

Lin Yuner suddenly stretched out her index finger and touched the corner of his mouth: "Here, and here."

Her sleekly trimmed nails gleamed in the light, and Jiang Zaixun reflexively leaned back, his head hitting the seat cushion hard.

Kim Taeyeon suddenly poked her head in: "Do you need a mirror to practice?"

"No need."

Jiang Jae-hoon rubbed the back of his head and sat up straight, and found that Lin Yoona had returned to her dignified sitting posture, as if the person who had poked her dimple just now was another person.

The staff quickly set up the interview area.

Lin Yuner finished checking the lipstick and turned around and chuckled: "Let's go, Mr. Gru."

"Ah."

As the three stood up, flashbulbs began to crackle and flash.

Jiang Zaixun adjusted his water bottle to avoid the bright light, but heard the first reporter ask him directly:

"Kang Jae-hoon, the character of Gru is set to be around 50 years old, and the original voice actor's age matched the character's, which allowed him to portray the character so convincingly. Since you're only 24 now, how did you manage to deliver a voice that's as good as the original Gru's?"

Jiang Zaixun bowed slightly to greet the reporter who asked the question:
"First of all, I would like to thank Steve for creating the irreplaceable Gru."

"Of course, Steve's version is like aged whiskey, and mine is at best convenience store soju. However, Korean audiences might be more accustomed to soju."

"As for the age-related voice, although I'm not a professional voice actor, it's indeed much easier to control the vibration frequency of the vocal cords than to control the facial muscles."

"For example—"

He suddenly leaned closer to the microphone and cleared his throat:

"Hello—" The young man's clear voice startled the reporters who were taking notes and all looked up. "I'm 16 years old."

Then, his second voice was wrapped in a smoky voice:
"In the morning of a thirty-year-old office worker, ice American style extends life."

Amid the murmurs of reporters, the hoarseness of a forty-year-old has crept onto Jiang Zaixun's vocal cords:
"Homeroom teacher, my child is in trouble again?"

"Sixty-year-old—"

"Mr. Jiang!" A reporter suddenly raised his hand. "Can we have an impromptu interaction?"

"You say."

The reporter cleared his throat and said, "Grandpa, your grandson got into Seoul National University!"

Jiang Zaixun immediately hunched his back and put his hands behind his ears:

"Has the price of eels increased in Haeundae?"

"It's my grandson who got into college!"

The reporter cooperated by shouting.

"What? 80 grams of salt for kimchi?"

He trembled and made the number eight gesture, and age spots seemed to be emerging from the back of his hand.

Kim Taeyeon suddenly interrupted: "Grandpa, did you voice Gru when you were young?"

"I chased Girls' Generation when I was young?"

The waves of laughter that erupted from the press box nearly blew the roof off.

A cameraman leaned forward too much, and the tripod and the equipment fell to the ground with a clang.

Lin Yuner also raised the microphone to interact with Jiang Zaixun:

"Grandpa, I heard that your grandson is a fan of Girls' Generation?"

Behind the media wall, Kim Dae-won frantically gestured to Kang Jae-hoon, slitting his throat, but he was already completely improvising:
"Not only that! I even have an 'I GOT A BOY' poster on my bedside!"

Kim Taeyeon suddenly stood up and bowed 90 degrees to Jiang Jaehoon:

“Thank you for the support of three generations.”

When the media area was laughing so hard that staff had to hand out tissues to wipe their tears, Jiang Zaixun had already switched back to his original voice:
"In fact, the vocal cords are just elastic muscles, but I am still forty years away from being able to 'carve my life with my vocal cords' as Mr. Hwang Jung-min said."

After three seconds of silence, the audience suddenly broke out into applause mixed with whistles.

Lin Yuna's eyes swept across Kang Jae-hoon's angular profile, and the corners of her lips raised with a curve that was three points more sincere than in front of the camera.

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