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

Chapter 36 Vocal Storm
Myeongdong CGV Cinema underground parking lot.

When the number on the elevator panel jumped from B1 to B2, Kang Jae-hoon pressed and held the door-opening button and waited for Lim Yoona to step out of the elevator.

"Very gentlemanly." Lin Yuna's voice was filled with smile.

"you flatter me."

As the two walked side by side towards their respective nanny cars, Lin Yuner suddenly asked:

"Can you tell me the secret to switching between three different voice styles at the same time?"

"This needs to start with the control of the vocal cavity."

"Can you teach me in detail some other time?"

"Why don't you learn this?" Jiang Zaixun saw her eyebrows raised, and quickly changed his words: "No problem."

Changing the topic, Lin Yuner suddenly lowered her voice:
"Do you know how to do a vomiting scene?"

Jiang Jae-hoon paused slightly: "Vomiting scene?"

As it happens, he did study this type of acting technique.

"There's a drunken scene in the second episode of the new drama where the heroine hears the news that her father is critically ill at the police station and needs to act out both crying and vomiting."

Lin Yuna rubbed her forehead helplessly: "Yesterday during practice, Hyoyeon unnie laughed at me for a full ten minutes."

“Real vomiting is often accompanied by physiological reactions”

Kang Jae-hoon noticed her confused look and immediately adjusted his words;
"You can use the handle of a toothbrush to gently touch the base of your tongue to experience dry heaving, remember the feeling of muscle contraction, and then manage your body movements and facial expressions."

"Expression management?" Lin Yuna asked with her head tilted.

"Pinch your nose and squint your eyes, and make your nasolabial folds double, like this—"

Jiang Zaixun looked around and retreated to the fire hydrant. He supported himself against the wall with his left hand, pinched his right hand two inches below his Adam's apple, and arched his back slightly.

"vomit--"

Lin Yuner quickly took out her phone and started recording:
"Can I record it and study it later?"

"Row."

Jiang Zaixun once again grasped the supporting column, the veins in his neck bulging as he retched. The green light of the emergency exit cast a distorted shadow on his back, and the parking lot echoed with exaggerated "Ouch!"

Lin Yuner's mobile phone camera moves down along with the degree of his bending, and the ends of his hair fall down to his shoulders:
"Do I need to cooperate with the tears?"

"When you really vomit, your tear glands will naturally open..."

"Yeah, Jiang."

Kim Dae-won rushed out from around the corner, frozen in place with his car keys in hand. His eyes flicked back and forth between Kang Jae-hoon's hunched back and Lin Yuna's phone screen:
"What kind of performance art are you doing?"

"Teaching the vomiting scene."

Jiang Zaixun wiped the non-existent saliva and stood up: "She needs it for her new drama."

"Can you teach me some things from the world of the living?"

Lin Yuna pressed the stop recording button, her thumb pressed against her lower lip to stifle a smile. Her eyelashes fluttered twice under the parking lot's overhead lights, and she suddenly tilted her head in a salute:
"Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Jiang."

"You're welcome."

She stood up and tucked her hair behind her ears: "Oh, by the way, when will you join the group?"

"We'll be shooting the LA scenes for two weeks at the end of the month."

Lin Yuner took two steps back thoughtfully, shaking her hands behind her back:

"See you later."

"See you."

The high beams of the nanny car swept across the three figures, and before getting into the car, Yoona raised her cell phone and shook it.

Jiang Jae-hoon looked at the ferocious expression frozen on the screen, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

As the taillights arced behind the load-bearing pillar, Jin Dayuan grabbed him by the collar and dragged him towards Area B:
"Do you know how her agent glared at me just now?"

"Five Eyes?"

"Three eyes, but more fierce than when Hwang Jung-min scolded you." Jin Dayuan suddenly quickened his pace, "From now on, you are prohibited from performing big and small performances anywhere, Mr. Jiang Zaiou."

"..."

In the nanny car.

Jin Dayuan was scribbling a route on the map on his phone, holding a toothpick in his mouth. Suddenly, he turned around as if remembering something.
"Didn't you see me making gestures to you during the media interview?"

"What gesture?"

"What's with all that bedside poster nonsense?!" "Uh, Choi Min-sik also said during the promotional period for 'New World' that he wanted to be Girls' Generation's driver."

The nanny car ran over the speed bump in the underground parking lot, and Jin Dayuan glared at him in the rearview mirror:

"What's his status? The only thing you can see on your resume is the words 'Hwang Jung-min's apprentice.'" Jin Dae-won slammed the steering wheel. "A nobody trying to ride on the popularity of a top star? Are you looking for trouble?"

Jiang Zaixun unscrewed the mineral water bottle and said, "After I finished speaking, no reporter asked any further questions."

The car radio cuts into the traffic report, and the brake lights during the evening rush hour dye the windshield red.

Jin Dayuan turned down the air conditioner by two degrees:

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll get you a job advertising Black Toothpaste."

“Is there any endorsement fee?”

"..."

The roar of the engine drowned out the agent's curses.

The next morning.

The entry #Kang Jae-hoon's Vocal Monster# suddenly landed at number seven on NAVER's hot search list.

Without any promotional efforts from the agency, the speed at which this topic became popular attracted the attention of industry insiders.

In particular, the video clip of Kang Jae-hoon's voice performance from youth to old age at the preview event exceeded 500,000 views within four hours.

Netizens' comments showed a polarized trend:

@Love to eat coriander D:

[Family, please enjoy this clip! The transition from the young boy's voice to the mature uncle's voice is textbook-level. I can hear the patina on my headphones.]

@Qingfeng Xixianyun:
[Hwang Jung-min's apprentice? No wonder his dialogue skills are solid, but dubbing is ultimately a side job. Young people should still do more serious dramas.]

@Bright Moon Reflects Ice and Snow:
[I suggest adding a voice actor award to the Baeksang Arts Awards. The ability to portray older voices demonstrated in this clip surpasses even some veteran actors with formal training (purely a technical discussion)]

@Why the wind is rising:
[I suggest you apply for World Heritage status for your vocal cords! My grandfather thought my phone had become a spirit when I performed the scene from age 16 to 60 (laughing and crying)]

@Kimchi Ramen:
Objectively speaking, the technology does have some bright spots, but touting it as a "monster" is a bit exaggerated. I suggest waiting for a few years before buying the press release.

@Coke without ice:
[These days' agencies are really good at hyping someone up. They can hype him up as the successor of Chungmuro ​​just by doing a voiceover? First win a decent Best Supporting Actor award before trying to hype him up.]

……

Inside the SEM conference room.

The publicity and promotion team is debating how to deal with the negative online controversy surrounding Kang Jae-hoon.

Hwang Jung-min's face, covered in scar makeup, emerged from the video conference screen:

"Take it easy. In the end, actors still have to rely on their works to speak for themselves."

"Oh, your idea doesn't apply to Xiaoxun—what works does he have?"

Jin Meihui sneered, "The drama star who appeared for two minutes in "International Market"?"

"Didn't you accept 'The Heirs'?"

Hwang Jung-min's voice faded away.

The hum of the air-conditioning vents and the sound of the projector cooling down mixed together to create an awkward background noise.

Hwang Jung-min's strategic cough:
"Um. What's Dayuan's plan?"

“How about being on the radio show?”

Jin Dayuan suggested: "Use different voices with classic movie clips to shut up the haters with your strength."

"This works."

Jin Meihui made the final decision: "Dayuan will contact the crew to see which radio program is suitable for the movie preview next week."

"clear."

After the meeting.

Jin Dayuan stood in front of the French window and called Jiang Zaixun:
"Find some classic movies and memorize the lines."

The receiver heard his lazy sound of getting up:

"You want an audition?"

"No." Jin Dayuan looked at the congested Jiangnan Avenue downstairs, "Be a human voice changer."

(End of this chapter)